Robert L. Tsai

Publications

• Becoming Steve Bright
  113 KY. L.J. (2025) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2025
• Under What Circumstances is “Caste” Likely to Be Useful as an Analytic Concept (and Should We Care)?
  85 MD. L. REV. 282 (2025) · Maryland Law Review · 2025
• Reasoning From Injustice
  30 MICH. J. RACE & L. 261 (2025) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2025
• Roads Not Taken on Affirmative Action
  54 SETON HALL L. REV. (2024) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2024
• A Proper Burial
  74 ARK. L. REV. 307 (2021) · Arkansas Law Review · 2021
• Racial Purges
  118 MICH. L. REV. 1127 (2020) · Michigan Law Review · 2020
• Considerations of History and Purpose in Constitutional Borrowing
  28 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 517 (2020) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2020

• The Hidden Costs of Dissent
  34 CONST. COMMENT. 489 (2019) · Constitutional Commentary · 2019
• Immigration Unilateralism and American Ethnonationalism
  51 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 523 (2019) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2019
• Obama’s Conversion on Same-Sex Marriage: The Social Foundations of Individual Rights
  Connecticut Law Review · 2018
• Three Arguments About War
  30 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (2015) · Constitutional Commentary · 2015
• Constitutional Borrowing
  108 MICH. L. REV. 459 (2010) · Michigan Law Review · 2010

• Reconsidering Gobitis: An Exercise in Presidential Leadership
  86 WASH. U. L. REV. 363 (2008) · Washington University Law Review · 2008
• Sovereignty as Discourse
  25 CONST. COMMENT. 157 (2008) · Constitutional Commentary · 2008
• Speech and Strife
  67 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 83 (2004) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2004
• Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation as Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory of Court Access
  51 AM. U. L. REV. (2002) · American University Law Review · 2002

• The System Worked: Our Schizophrenic Stance on Welfare
  106 YALE L.J. 929 (1996) · Yale Law Journal · 1996
• Is the Constitution "Godless" or Just Nondenominational?
  106 YALE L.J. 917 (1996) · Yale Law Journal · 1996