Constitutional Law (U.S.)
The Crisis of Secular Liberalism and the Constitutional State in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Rule of Law, and Democratic Organization of Religion Privileging States, Cornell International Law Journal 48:51-104 (2015) http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Backer-final.pdf DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer-final
From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems, 113(3) Penn State Law Review 671-732 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 113PennStateLRev671(2009) updated 6-11-09
Symposium: Law and the State in the Transnational Legal Order: “Reifying Law: Understanding Law Beyond the State,” Penn State International Law Review 26(3):521-563 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Reifying Law
LatCrit Symposium, “Gendering the President Male: Executive Authority Beyond Rule of Law Constitutionalism in the American Context,” Florida International University Law Review 3(2):341-367 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: FIU Law Review Article
“Using Law Against Itself: Bush v. Gore Applied in the Courts”, Rutgers Law Review 55(4):1109-1174 (2003). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 55RutgersLRev1109(2003)LawAgainstItself
“Race, ‘The Race,’ and the Republic: Reconceiving Judicial Authority After Bush v. Gore, Catholic University Law Review 51(4):1057-1113 (2002). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 51Catholic Univ 1057(2002)
“The Extra-National State: American Confederate Federalism and the European Union,” Columbia Journal of European Law 7(2):173-240 (2001). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 7(2)ColumbJEurL173(2001)ExtraNatState
“Some Thoughts on The American Declaration of Independence and the Irish Easter Proclamation,” 8 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 87 (2000). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 8TulsaJComp&IntlL1(2000)DeclIndepIrish
“Disciplining Judicial Interpretation of Fundamental Rights: First Amendment Decadence in Southworth and Boy Scouts of America and European Alternatives,” 36 Tulsa Law Journal 117-151 (2000). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 36TulsaLJ117(2000)DiscipliningJudInterp
“Inscribing Judicial Preferences into Our Basic Law: The Political Jurisprudence of European Margins of Appreciation As Constitutional Jurisprudence in the U.S.,” 7 Tulsa Comparative & International Law Journal 327-373 (2000). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 7TulsaJComp&IntlL327(2000) Inscribing Judicial Pref.
“Measuring the Penetration of Outsider Scholarship in the Courts: Indifference, Hostility, Engagement,” 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1173–1226 (2000).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33UCDavisLRev1173(2000)
“Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgment: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain,” 6 S. California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 611-662 (1998). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 6SoCalInterdiscLJ611(1998TweakingFacts
“A Cobbler’s Court, A Practitioner’s Court: The Rehnquist Court Finds its “Groove”,” 34 Tulsa Law Journal 347-365 (1998/99). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Tulsa Vol 34 No2
“Religion as Object and the Grammar of Law,” 81 Marquette Law Review 229-254 (1998).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 81MarquetteLRev229(1998)Religion as Object
“Reading Entrails: Romer, VMI and the Art of Divining Equal Protection,” 32 Tulsa Law Journal361-388 (1997).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 32TulsaLJ361(1997)Reading Entrails
Fairness as a General Principle of American Constitutional Law: Applying Extra-Constitutional Principles to Constitutional cases in Hendricks and M.L.B., 33 Tulsa Law Journal 135-162 (1997). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33TulsaLJ135(1997)FairnessGenPrin
Narrative and Jurisprudence in State Courts: The Example of Constitutional Challenges to Sex Conduct Regulation, 60 Albany Law Review 1633-1671 (1997) (Annual State Constitutional Law Commentary Issue). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 60AlbanyLRev1633(1997)SexCondNarr
“Inventing a ‘Homosexual’ for Constitutional Theory: Sodomy Narrative and Antipathy in U.S. and British Courts”, 71 Tulane Law Review 529-596 (1996). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 71TulaneLRev529(1996)InventHomosex
“The Incarnate Word, that Old Rugged Cross and the State: On the Supreme Court’s October 1994 Term Establishment Clause Cases and the Persistence of Comic Absurdity as Jurisprudence”, 31 Tulsa Law Journal 447-471 (1996). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: The Incarnate Word That Old Rugged Cross and the State_ On the S
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