William E. Nelson

Publications

• John Marshall and Felix Frankfurter: An Icon and a Disappointment?
  39 TOURO L. REV. (2024) · Touro Law Review · 2024
• Abortion and Affirmative Action: The Fragility of Supreme Court Political Decision-Making
  Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality · 2024

• The Importance of Scholarship to Law School Excellence
  87 FORDHAM L. REV. 939 (2018) · Fordham Law Review · 2018
• Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R.: Its Historical Context
  34 TOURO L. REV. (2018) · Touro Law Review · 2018
• The Emerging American Police State: The Problem Is Not with the Police, but Higher Up
  33 TOURO L. REV. (2017) · Touro Law Review · 2017
• A Reply to Professor Dan Subotnik
  33 TOURO L. REV. (2017) · Touro Law Review · 2017
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Charitable Contributions and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  11 DEPAUL BUS. & COM. L.J. 331 (2015) · DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal · 2015
• A Response: The Impact of War on Justice in the History of American Law
  89 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 1109 (2014) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2014
• The Imperfections of the Rule of Law
  67 SMU L. REV. 781 (2014) · SMU Law Review · 2014
• Political Decision Making by Informed Juries
  55 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1149 (2014) · William & Mary Law Review · 2014
• Politicizing the Courts and Undermining the Law: A Legal History of Colonial North Carolina, 1660-1775
  88 N. C. L. REV. 2133 (2010) · North Carolina Law Review · 2010

• Categorizing Zipporah's Petition
  38 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2009) · Hofstra Law Review · 2009
• Legal Turmoil in a Factious Colony: New York, 1664-1776
  38 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2009) · Hofstra Law Review · 2009
• The Height of Sophistication: Law and Professionalism in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina, 1670-1775
  61 S. C. L. REV. (2009) · South Carolina Law Review · 2009
• The Liberal Tradition of the Supreme Court Clerkship: Its Rise, Fall, and Reincarnation?
  62 VAND. L. REV. 1747 (2009) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2009
• Defending the Historian’s Art: A Response to Paul A. Crotty’s Attack on Fighting for the City
  53 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 533 (2008) · NYLS Law Review · 2008
• Government by Judiciary: The Growth of Judicial Power in Colonial Pennsylvania
  59 SMU L. REV. 3 (2006) · SMU Law Review · 2006
• Brown v. Board of Education and the Jurisprudence of Legal Realism
  48 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2004) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2004
• The Province of the Judiciary, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (2004)
  37 UIC L. REV. (2004) · UIC Law Review · 2004
• Justice Byron R. White: His Legacy For the Twenty-First Century
  74 U. COLO. L. REV. 1291 (2003) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2003
• The Moral Perversity of the Hand Calculus
  45 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2001) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2001
• The Law of Fiduciary Duty in New York, 1920-1980
  53 SMU L. REV. 285 (2000) · SMU Law Review · 2000

• From Fairness to Efficiency: The Transformation of Tort Law in New York, 1920-1980
  47 BUFF. L. REV. 117 (1999) · Buffalo Law Review · 1999
• Suburbanization and Market Failure: An Analysis of Government Policies Promoting Suburban Growth and Ethnic Assimilation
  27 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 197 (1999) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 1999
• A Man's Word and Making Money: Contract Law in New York, 1920-1960
  19 MISS. COLL. L. REV. (1999) · Mississippi College Law Review · 1999
• FROM MORALITY TO EQUALITY: JUDICIAL REGULATION OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN NEW YORK, 1920-1980
  43 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 225 (1999) · NYLS Law Review · 1999
• Patriarchy or Equality: Family Values or Individuality
  70 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. (1997) · St. John's Law Review · 1997
• The Growth of Distrust: The Emergence of Hostility Toward Government Regulation of the Economy
  25 HOFSTRA L. REV. (1996) · Hofstra Law Review · 1996
• The Changing Meaning of Equality in Twentieth-Century Constitutional Law
  52 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 3 (1995) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 1995
• Justice Byron R. White: A Modern Federalist and a New Deal Liberal
  1994 BYU L. REV. 313 (1994) · BYU Law Review · 1994
• Criminality and Sexual Morality in New York, 1920-1980
  5 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 265 (1994) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1994
• Multiple Voices as a Means to Legal Reform (A Response to Martha Fineman)
  5 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 351 (1994) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1994
• The Role of History in Interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment
  25 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1177 (1992) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1992

• Deference and the Limits to Deference in the Constitutional Jurisprudence of Justice Byron R. White
  58 U. COLO. L. REV. 347 (1987) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1987
• History and Neutrality in Constitutional Adjudication
  72 VA. L. REV. 1237 (1986) · Virginia Law Review · 1986

• The Eighteenth-Century Background of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence
  76 MICH. L. REV. 893 (1978) · Michigan Law Review · 1978
• Review of <i>A Better Kind of Hatchet: Law, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Cherokee Nation during the Early Years of European Contact</i> by John Phillip Reid
  44 U. CHI. L. REV. (1977) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1977
• Review Article
  76 COLUM. L. REV. 713 (1976) · Columbia Law Review · 1976
• The Impact of the Antislavery Movement upon Styles of Judicial Reasoning in Nineteenth Century America
  87 HARV. L. REV. 513 (1974) · Harvard Law Review · 1974
• Reform of Common Law Pleading in Massachusetts 1760-1830: Adjudication as a Prelude to Legislation
  122 U. PENN. L. REV. 97 (1973) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1973
• Changing Conceptions of Judicial Review: The Evolution of Constitutional Theory in the states, 1790-1860
  120 U. PENN. L. REV. 1166 (1972) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1972

• Continuity and Change in Constitutional Adjudication
  78 YALE L.J. 500 (1969) · Yale Law Journal · 1969
• Reviews
  78 YALE L.J. 492 (1969) · Yale Law Journal · 1969

• Psychiatry and Its Relationship to the Administration of the Criminal Law
  17 WASH. U. L. REV. 320 (1932) · Washington University Law Review · 1932

• Need for Statutory Psychiatric Examination in Criminal Cases
  11 WASH. U. L. REV. 284 (1926) · Washington University Law Review · 1926