Stephen M. Feldman

Publications

• How Many Supreme Court Justices Can Stand on the Point of a Needle? Originalist Scholarship, Political Neutrality, and other Constitutional Nonsense
  32 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 379 (2026) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2026
• Searching for Truth That Speaks to Power: Free Speech and Equality on Campus
  73 AM. U. L. REV. (2024) · American University Law Review · 2024
• Who Belongs?: “We the People” in the Twenty-First Century
  52 FORDHAM URB. L.J. (2024) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2024
• White Christian Nationalism Enters the Political Mainstream: Implications for the Roberts Court and Religious Freedom
  53 SETON HALL L. REV. (2023) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2023
• The Roberts Court's Transformative Religious Freedom Cases: The Doctrine and the Politics of Grievance
  28 CARDOZO J. EQUAL RTS. & SOC. JUST. 507 (2022) · Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice · 2022
• Court-Packing Time? Supreme Court Legitimacy and Positivity Theory
  68 BUFF. L. REV. 1519 (2020) · Buffalo Law Review · 2020
• Free-Speech Formalism and Social Injustice
  26 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 47 (2020) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2020

• The Politics of the Law-Politics Dichotomy
  33 BYU J. PUB. L. 15 (2019) · Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law · 2019
• Broken Platforms, Broken Communities? Free Speech on Campus
  27 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 949 (2019) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2019
• Nothing New Under the Sun: The Law-Politics Dynamic in Supreme Court Decision Making
  2017 PEPP. L. REV. 43 (2018) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2018
• Postmodern Free Expression: A Philosophical Rationale for the Digital Age
  100 MARQ. L. REV. 1123 (2017) · Marquette Law Review · 2017
• The Return of the Self, or Whatever Happened to Postmodern Jurisprudence
  9 WASH. U. JUR. REV. 267 (2017) · Washington University Jurisprudence Review · 2017
• Can Law Be a Source of Insight for Other Academic Disciplines?
  8 WASH. U. JUR. REV. 151 (2016) · Washington University Jurisprudence Review · 2016
• Is the Constitution Laissez-Faire?: The Framers, Original Meaning, and the Market
  81 BROOK. L. REV. (2015) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2015
• Fighting the Tofu: Law and Politics in Scholarship and Adjudication
  14 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL 'Y & ETHICS J. 91 (2015) · Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal · 2015
• The End of the Cold War: Can American ConstitutionalismSurvive Victory?
  41 OHIO N. U. L. REV. (2015) · Ohio Northern University Law Review · 2015
• (Same) Sex, Lies, and Democracy: Tradition, Religion, and Substantive Due Process (with an Emphasis on Obergefell v. Hodges)
  24 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 341 (2015) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2015
• Constitutional Interpretation and History: New Originalism or Eclecticism?
  28 BYU J. PUB. L. 283 (2014) · Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law · 2014
• The Interpretation of Constitutional History, or Charles Beard Becomes a Fortuneteller (with an Emphasis on Free Expression)
  29 CONST. COMMENT. 323 (2014) · Constitutional Commentary · 2014
• Chief Justice Roberts's Marbury Moment: The Affordable Care Act Case (NFIB v. Sebelius)
  13 WYO. L. REV 335 (2013) · Wyoming Law Review · 2013
• Democracy and Dissent: Strauss, Arendt, and Voegelin in America
  89 DENV. L. REV. 671 (2012) · Denver Law Review · 2012
• Conservative Eras in Supreme Court Decision-Making: <i>Employment Division v. Smith</i>, Judicial Restraint, and Neoconservatism
  32 CARDOZO L. REV. 1791 (2011) · Cardozo Law Review · 2011
• Modernity, Religion, and the Public Sphere
  45 TULSA L. REV. 845 (2010) · Tulsa Law Review · 2010

• Divided We Fall: Religion, Politics, and the <em>Lemon</em> Entaglements Prong
  7 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 253 (2009) · First Amendment Law Review · 2009
• Free Speech, World War I, and Republican Democracy: The Internal and External Holmes
  6 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 192 (2008) · First Amendment Law Review · 2008
• Free Expression and Education: Between Two Democracies
  16 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 999 (2008) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2008
• Empiricism, Religion, and Judicial Decision-Making
  15 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 43 (2006) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2006
• History and Interpretation
  38 TULSA L. REV. 595 (2003) · Tulsa Law Review · 2003
• An Arrow to the Heart: the Love and Death of Postmodern Legal Scholarship
  54 VAND. L. REV. 2349 (2001) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2001
• How to Be Critical
  76 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 893 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000
• The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant
  84 MINN. L. REV. 673 (2000) · Minnesota Law Review · 2000

• Playing with the Pieces: Postmodernism in the Lawyer's Toolbox
  85 VA. L. REV. 151 (1999) · Virginia Law Review · 1999
• From Premodern to Modern American Jurisprudence: The Onset of Positivism
  50 VAND. L. REV. 1387 (1997) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1997
• The Politics of Postmodern Jurisprudence
  95 MICH. L. REV. 166 (1996) · Michigan Law Review · 1996

• Exposing Sunstein’s Naked Preferences
  38 DUKE L.J. 1335 (1989) · Duke Law Journal · 1989
• Felix S. Cohen and His Jurisprudence: Reflections on Federal Indian Law
  35 BUFF. L. REV. 479 (1986) · Buffalo Law Review · 1986
• Indigents in the Federal Courts: The in Forma Pauperis Statute - Equality and Frivolity
  54 FORDHAM L. REV. 413 (1985) · Fordham Law Review · 1985

• The Difference Between the Pennsylvania and Federal Tests of Sufficiency of Circumstantial Evidence and the Choice of Law in Federal Diversity Cases
  72 DICK. L. REV. 409 (1968) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 1968
• Actions in Contract Resulting from Aircraft Crashes
  12 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 472 (1963) · Cleveland State Law Review · 1963