Richard H. Pildes

Publications

• The Neglected Value of Effective Government
  2023 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2024) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2024
• Combatting Extremism
  76 FLA. L. REV. 1583 (2024) · Florida Law Review · 2024
• Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West
  37 BYU J. PUB. L. 209 (2023) · Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law · 2023
• Election Law in an Age of Distrust
  74 STAN. L. REV. (2022) · Stanford Law Review · 2022
• Democracies in the Age of Fragmentation
  110 CAL. L. REV. 2051 (2022) · California Law Review · 2022
• Why, or Why Not, Be an Originalist?
  69 CATH. U. L. REV. 683 (2021) · Catholic University Law Review · 2021
• The Legality of Ranked-Choice Voting
  109 CAL. L. REV. 1773 (2021) · California Law Review · 2021

• Romanticizing Democracy, Political Fragmentation, and the Decline of American Government
  124 YALE L.J. 804 (2014) · Yale Law Journal · 2014
• Institutional Formalism and Realism in Constitutional and Public Law
  2013 SUP. CT. REV. (2013) · Supreme Court Review · 2013
• Why the Center Does Not Hold: The Causes of Hyperpolarized Democracy in America
  99 CAL. L. REV. 273 (2011) · California Law Review · 2011
• Free Enterprise Fund, Boundary-Enforcing Decisions, and the Unitary Executive Branch Theory of Government Administration
  6 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2010) · Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2010
• Is the Supreme Court a “Majoritarian” Institution?
  2010 SUP. CT. REV. (2010) · Supreme Court Review · 2010

• Means and Ends in Politics and Law: An Essay in Honor of Cass Sunstein
  43 TULSA L. REV. 857 (2008) · Tulsa Law Review · 2008
• The Constitution and Political Competition
  30 NOVA L. REV. 253 (2006) · Nova Law Review · 2006
• Is Voting-Rights Law Now at War with Itself--Social Science and Voting Rights in the 2000s
  80 N. C. L. REV. 1517 (2002) · North Carolina Law Review · 2002
• Keeping Legal History Meaningful
  19 CONST. COMMENT. 645 (2002) · Constitutional Commentary · 2002
• Judging "New Law" in Election Disputes
  29 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2001) · Florida State University Law Review · 2001
• Democracy and Disorder
  68 U. CHI. L. REV. (2001) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2001
• Dworkin's Two Conceptions of Rights
  29 J. LEGAL STUD. (2000) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2000
• Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 295 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000
• Expressive Theories of Law: A General Restatement
  148 U. PENN. L. REV. 1503 (2000) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2000

• Not by Election Law Alone
  32 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1173 (1999) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1999
• Forms of Formalism
  66 U. CHI. L. REV. (1999) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1999
• The Theory of Political Competition
  85 VA. L. REV. 1605 (1999) · Virginia Law Review · 1999
• Why Rights Are Not Trumps: Social Meanings, Expressive Harms, and Constitutionalism
  27 J. LEGAL STUD. (1998) · Journal of Legal Studies · 1998
• The Right to Participate
  41 L. QUAD. (1998) · Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes) · 1998
• Principled Limitations on Racial and Partisan Redistricting
  106 YALE L.J. 2505 (1997) · Yale Law Journal · 1997
• Destruction of Social Capital Through Law
  144 U. PENN. L. REV. 2055 (1996) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1996
• Reinventing the Regulatory State
  62 U. CHI. L. REV. (1995) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1995
• Cumulative Voting in the United States
  1995 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (1995) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 1995
• The Question of Race and Voting Rights
  38 L. QUAD. (1995) · Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes) · 1995
• Conference: Supreme Court, Racial Politics, and the Right to Vote: Shaw v. Reno and the Future of the Voting Rights Act
  44 AM. U. L. REV. (1994) · American University Law Review · 1994
• Avoiding Balancing: The Role of Exclusionary Reasons in Constitutional Law
  45 UC L.J. 711 (1994) · UC Law Journal · 1994
• All for One, or One for All
  36 L. QUAD. (1993) · Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes) · 1993
• Expressive Harms, "Bizarre Districts," and Voting Rights: Evaluating Election-District Appearances After <em>Shaw v. Reno</em>
  92 MICH. L. REV. 483 (1993) · Michigan Law Review · 1993
• Conceptions of Value in Legal Thought
  90 MICH. L. REV. 1520 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• The Unintended Cultural Consequences of Public Policy: A Comment on the Symposium
  89 MICH. L. REV. 936 (1991) · Michigan Law Review · 1991