Articles

Chief Justice Roberts’s Marbury Moment: The Affordable Care Act Case (NFIB v. Sebelius), _ Wyo. L. Rev. _ (forthcoming) (presented as the Housel/Arnold Lecture).

Hate Speech and Democracy, _ Criminal Justice Ethics _ (forthcoming).

Gary L. McDowell's The Language of Law and the Foundation of American Constitutionalism, The Law and Politics Law Review (forthcoming) (book review).

Democracy and Dissent: Strauss, Arendt, and Voegelin in America, 89 Denv. U. L. Rev. 671 (2012) (in Symposium on Revolutions and Democratic Dissent). Westlaw

Do the Right Thing: Understanding the Interest-Convergence Thesis, 106 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 248 (2012). Westlaw

Conservative Eras in Supreme Court Decision-Making: Employment Division V. Smith, Judicial Restraint, and Neoconservatism, 32 Cardozo Law Review 1791 (2011). Westlaw | Lexis | Hein Online

Modernity, Religion and the Public Sphere, 45 Tulsa Law Review 845 (2010) (reviewing Steven H. Shiffrin, The Religious Left and Church-State Relations (2009) & Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution (2009). Westlaw

Divided We Fall: Religion, Politics and the Lemon Entanglements Prong, 7 First Amendment Law Review 253 (2009). SSRN ǀ Westlaw 

Do Supreme Court Nominees Lie? The Politics of Adjudication, 18 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 17 (2008). SSRN ǀ Westlaw ǀ Lexis 

Free Expression and Education: Between Two Democracies, 16 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 999 (2008). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Westlaw 

Free Speech, World War I, and Republican Democracy: the Internal and External Holmes, 6 First Amendment Law Review  192 (2008). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Westlaw 

Review of Owen M. Fiss, Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888 - 1910, 17 The Law and Politics Book Review 44 (January 2007). Internet

Empiricism, Religion and Judicial Decision Making, 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 43 (2006). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

The Theory and Politics of First-Amendment Protections: Why Does the Supreme Court Favor Free Expression over Religious Freedom? 8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 431 (2006). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Unenumerated Rights in Different Democratic Regimes, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 47 (2006). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

The Rehnquist Court and Religion, Wyoming Lawyer, Dec. 2005, at 30. Westlaw ǀ Wyoming Lawyer 

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Politics?  Harmonizing the Internal and External Views of Supreme Court Decision Making, 30 Law & Social Inquiry: Journal of American Bar Foundation 89 (2005). SSRN ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Review of Isaac Kramnick & R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State, 15 The Law & Politics Book Rev. 1010 (November 2005). Internet

The Problem of Critique: Triangulating Habermas, Derrida, and Gadamer Within Metamodernism, 4 Contemporary Political Theory 296 (2005). ProQuest

Review of Mark Weitz, Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley, 46 American Journal of Legal History 84 (2004) (book review). Hein Online ǀ Westlaw 

The Transformation of an Academic Discipline: Law Professors in the Past and Future (or Toy Story Too), 54 Journal of Legal Education 471 (2004). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Westlaw 

History and Interpretation, 38 Tulsa Law Review 595 (2003) (in Symposium: The Scholarship of Sanford V. Levinson). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw

Religious Minorities and the First Amendment: The History, the Doctrine, and the Future, 6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 222 (2003). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ  Lexis ǀ Westlaw

An Arrow to the Heart: The Love and Death of Postmodern Legal Scholarship, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 2351 (2001). SSRN ǀ Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Critical Legal Theory, Tulsa Law Magazine, Summer 2000, at 8.  

How to Be Critical, 76 Chicago-Kent Law Rev. 893 (2000). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Made for Each Other: The Interdependence of Deconstruction and Philosophical Hermeneutics, 26 Philosophy & Social Criticism 51 (2000). Sage (.pdf download)

The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant, 84 Minnesota Law Rev. 673 (2000). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Playing With the Pieces: Postmodernism in the Lawyer's Toolbox, 85 Virginia Law Review 151 (1999). Hein Online ǀ JSTOR ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (1998). Internet Preview 

Intellectual History in Detail, 26 Reviews Am. Hist. 737 (1998) (reviewing N.E.H. Hull, Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching for an American Jurisprudence (1997)). Reviews in American History  

From Premodern to Modern American Jurisprudence: The Onset of Positivism, 50 Vanderbilt Law Review 1387 (1997). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Politics of Postmodern Jurisprudence, 95 Michigan Law Review 166 (1996). Hein Online ǀ JSTOR ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Principle, History, and Power:  The Limits of the First Amendment Religion Clause, 81 Iowa Law Review 833 (1996). Hein Online ǀ Lexis Westlaw 

Diagnosing Power: Postmodernism in Legal Scholarship and Judicial Practice (With an Emphasis on the Teague Rule Against New Rules in Habeas Corpus Cases), 88 Northwestern University Law Review 1046 (1994). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Persistence of Power and the Struggle for Dialogic Standards in Postmodern Constitutional Jurisprudence : Michelman, Habermas, and Civic Republicanism, 81 Georgetown Law Journal 2243 (1993). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Republic Revival/Interpretive Turn, 1992 Wisconsin Law Review 679 (1992). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Whose Common Good? Racism in the Political Community, 80 Georgetown Law Journal 1835 (1992). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw

An Interpretation of Max Weber's Theory of Law: Metaphysics, Economics and the Iron Cage of Constitutional Law, 16 Law & Social Inquiry 205 (1991). Hein Online ǀ JSTOR 

The New Metaphysics: The Interpretive Turn in Jurisprudence, 76 Iowa Law Review 661 (1991). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Exposing Sunstein's Naked Preferences, 1989 Duke Law Journal 1335 (1989). Hein Online ǀ JSTOR ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Felix S. Cohen and His Jurisprudence: Reflections on Federal Indian Law, 35 Buffalo Law Review 479 (1986). Hein Online 

Preemption and the Dormant Commerce Clause: Implications for Federal Indian Law, 64 Oregon Law Review 667 (1986). Hein Online 

Indigents in the Federal Courts:  The In Forma Pauperis Statute-Equality and Frivolity, 54 Fordham Law Review 413 (1985). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ Westlaw 

Scope of Judicial Review: Extreme Hardship and the Whipsaw of Illegal Aliens, 36 Administrative Law Review 27 (1984). Hein Online 

Comment, The Developing Test for State Regulatory Jurisdiction in Indian Country: Application in the Context of Environmental Law, 61 Oregon Law Review 561 (1982). Hein Online   

Books

Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy (New York University Press, 2013). Google Books

Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2008). (American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression Book of the Month - January 2009; First Amendment Center/National Archives Book Forum Selection, May 2009). Google Books

American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage (Oxford University Press 2000) (finalist for 2001 Oklahoma Book Award; translated into Japanese). Google Books

Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology (Stephen M. Feldman ed., New York University Press 2000). Google Books

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York University Press 1997) (awarded the Josephine Yalch Zekan Prize). Google Books

Book Chapters

Great Expectations: Antisemitism and the Politics of Free-Speech Jurisprudence, in Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Koninklijke Brill NV, forthcoming).

Postmodernism and Law, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley N. Katz ed., Oxford University Press, 2009). Amazon

The Bad Tendency Test, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties 96 (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, 2006). Google Books

Religious Symbols on Public Property, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties 1312 (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, 2006). Google Books

Jews in the United States, in Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom 235 (Catharine Cookson et al. eds., Berkshire/Routledge Publishing, 2003). Google Books

History and Law, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 361 (Kermit L. Hall ed., Oxford University Press, 2002). Google Books

A Christian America and the Separation of Church and State, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology 261 (Stephen M. Feldman ed., New York University Press 2000). Google Books

Critical Questions in Law and Religion: An Introduction, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology 1 (Stephen M. Feldman ed., New York University Press 2000). Google Books

Popular Media

What I’m Reading (discussing Ann Patchett’s Magician’s Assistant):  In Relation to the Publication of Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court:  Law, Power, and Democracy (New York University Press, 2013), posted on Writers Read, and Campaign for the American Reader (November 28, 2012).

Supreme Court Health Care Ruling Decision: Did NFIB v. Sebelius Betray Conservative Principles?, posted on From the Square (N.Y.U. Press blog) (July 2, 2012).

The Matrix: Democracy and Free Expression (in Three Dimensions), posted on Balkinization (January 19, 2010).

History, Neoconservatism, and Citizens United, guest blog for Balkinization, http://balkin.blogspot.com (January 2010).