Roderick M. Hills Jr

Publications

• Presidential Administration After Arthrex
  75 DUKE L.J. 1523 (2026) · Duke Law Journal · 2026
• The Unwritten Constitution for Admitting States
  89 FORDHAM L. REV. 1877 (2021) · Fordham Law Review · 2021
• Suspect Spheres, Not Enumerated Powers: A Guide for Leaving the Lamppost
  119 MICH. L. REV. 1431 (2021) · Michigan Law Review · 2021

• Binding Leviathan: Credible Commitment in an Authoritarian Regime
  102 MINN. L. REV. 1591 (2018) · Minnesota Law Review · 2018
• Towards a Universal Field Theory of National Private Rights and Federalism
  76 MONT. L. REV. 41 (2015) · Montana Law Review · 2015
• The Case for Educational Federalism: Protecting Educational Policy from the National Government's Diseconomies of Scale
  87 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1941 (2012) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2012
• Balancing the "Zoning Budget"
  62 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 81 (2011) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2011
• The Steep Costs of Using Noncumulative Zoning to Preserve Land for Urban Manufacturing
  77 U. CHI. L. REV. (2010) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2010

• The Problem of Canonical Ambiguity in Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
  44 TULSA L. REV. 501 (2009) · Tulsa Law Review · 2009
• Are Judges Really More Principled than Voters?
  37 U. S. F. L. REV. (2002) · University of San Francisco Law Review · 2002

• Dissecting the State: The Use of Federal Law to Free State and Local Officials from State Legislatures' Control
  97 MICH. L. REV. 1201 (1999) · Michigan Law Review · 1999
• The Political Economy of Cooperative Federalism: Why State Autonomy Makes Sense and "Dual Sovereignty" Doesn't
  96 MICH. L. REV. 813 (1998) · Michigan Law Review · 1998
• Truth or Consequences? The Inadequacy of Consequentialist Arguments Against Multicultural Relativism
  15 CONST. COMMENT. 185 (1998) · Constitutional Commentary · 1998
• Is Amendment 2 Really a Bill of Attainder? Some Questions About Professor Amar's Analysis of Romer
  95 MICH. L. REV. 236 (1996) · Michigan Law Review · 1996