{"id":2850,"date":"2025-06-17T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/?page_id=2850"},"modified":"2025-06-28T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:12:51","slug":"larry-cata-backer-publications-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/larry-cata-backer-publications-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Constitutional Law (U.S.)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Crisis of Secular Liberalism and the Constitutional State in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Rule of Law, and Democratic Organization of Religion Privileging States<\/em>, Cornell International Law Journal 48:51-104 (2015)\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/research\/ILJ\/upload\/Backer-final.pdf\">http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/research\/ILJ\/upload\/Backer-final.pdf<\/a> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Backer-final.pdf\">Backer-final<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems, 113(3) Penn State Law Review 671-732 (2009).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/113PennStateLRev6712009-updated-6-11-09.pdf\">113PennStateLRev671(2009) updated 6-11-09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Symposium:&nbsp; Law and the State in the Transnational Legal Order: \u201cReifying Law:&nbsp; Understanding Law Beyond the State,\u201d P<em>enn State International Law Review<\/em> 26(3):521-563 (2008).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/reifying-law-government-law-and-the-rule-of-law-in-governance\/\">Reifying Law<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LatCrit Symposium, \u201cGendering the President Male: Executive Authority Beyond Rule of Law Constitutionalism in the American Context<em>,\u201d Florida International University Law Review<\/em> 3(2):341-367 (2008).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FIU-Law-Review-Article.pdf\">FIU Law Review Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cUsing Law Against Itself: Bush v. Gore Applied in the Courts\u201d, <em>Rutgers Law Review<\/em>&nbsp; 55(4):1109-1174 (2003).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/55RutgersLRev11092003LawAgainstItself.pdf\">55RutgersLRev1109(2003)LawAgainstItself<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cRace, \u2018The Race,\u2019 and the Republic: Reconceiving Judicial Authority After Bush v. Gore,&nbsp; Catholic University Law Review 51(4):1057-1113 (2002).<\/strong> <strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/51Catholic-Univ-10572002.pdf\">51Catholic Univ 1057(2002)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Extra-National State: American Confederate Federalism and the European Union,\u201d&nbsp; Columbia Journal of European Law 7(2):173-240 (2001).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/72ColumbJEurL1732001ExtraNatState.pdf\">7(2)ColumbJEurL173(2001)ExtraNatState<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSome Thoughts on The American Declaration of Independence and the Irish Easter Proclamation,\u201d 8 <em>Tulsa Journal of Comparative &amp; International Law<\/em> 87 (2000)<\/strong>. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8TulsaJCompIntlL12000DeclIndepIrish.pdf\">8TulsaJComp&amp;IntlL1(2000)DeclIndepIrish<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDisciplining Judicial Interpretation of Fundamental Rights: First Amendment Decadence in Southworth and Boy Scouts of America and European Alternatives,\u201d 36 <em>Tulsa Law Journal<\/em> 117-151 (2000)<\/strong>. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/36TulsaLJ1172000DiscipliningJudInterp.pdf\">36TulsaLJ117(2000)DiscipliningJudInterp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cInscribing Judicial Preferences into Our Basic Law: The Political Jurisprudence of European Margins of Appreciation As Constitutional Jurisprudence in the U.S.,\u201d 7 <em>Tulsa Comparative &amp; International Law Journal<\/em> 327-373 (2000)<\/strong>. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/7TulsaJCompIntlL3272000-Inscribing-Judicial-Pref..pdf\">7TulsaJComp&amp;IntlL327(2000) Inscribing Judicial Pref.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cMeasuring the Penetration of Outsider Scholarship in the Courts: Indifference, Hostility, Engagement,\u201d 33 <em>U.C. Davis Law Review<\/em> 1173\u20131226 (2000).<\/strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/33UCDavisLRev11732000.pdf\">33UCDavisLRev1173(2000)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTweaking Facts, Speaking Judgment: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain,\u201d 6 <em>S. California Interdisciplinary Law Journal<\/em> 611-662 (1998).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/6SoCalInterdiscLJ6111998TweakingFacts.pdf\">6SoCalInterdiscLJ611(1998TweakingFacts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cA Cobbler\u2019s Court, A Practitioner\u2019s Court: The Rehnquist Court Finds its \u201cGroove\u201d,\u201d 34 <em>Tulsa Law Journal<\/em> 347-365 (1998\/99).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Tulsa-Vol-34-No2.pdf\">Tulsa Vol 34 No2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cReligion as Object and the Grammar of Law,\u201d 81 <em>Marquette Law Review<\/em> 229-254 (1998).<\/strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81MarquetteLRev2291998Religion-as-Object.pdf\">81MarquetteLRev229(1998)Religion as Object<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cReading Entrails: Romer, VMI and the Art of Divining Equal Protection,\u201d 32 <em>Tulsa Law Journal<\/em>361-388 (1997).<\/strong>DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/32TulsaLJ3611997Reading-Entrails.pdf\">32TulsaLJ361(1997)Reading Entrails<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/33TulsaLJ1351997FairnessGenPrin.pdf\">33TulsaLJ135(1997)FairnessGenPrin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/60AlbanyLRev16331997SexCondNarr.pdf\">60AlbanyLRev1633(1997)SexCondNarr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cInventing a \u2018Homosexual\u2019 for Constitutional Theory: Sodomy Narrative and Antipathy in U.S. and British Courts\u201d<em>,<\/em> 71 <em>Tulane Law Review<\/em> 529-596 (1996)<\/strong>. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/71TulaneLRev5291996InventHomosex.pdf\">71TulaneLRev529(1996)InventHomosex<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Incarnate Word, that Old Rugged Cross and the State: On the Supreme Court\u2019s October 1994 Term Establishment Clause Cases and the Persistence of Comic Absurdity as Jurisprudenc<em>e\u201d<\/em>, 31 <em>Tulsa Law Journal<\/em> 447-471 (1996).<\/strong> DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/The-Incarnate-Word-That-Old-Rugged-Cross-and-the-State_-On-the-S.pdf\">The Incarnate Word That Old Rugged Cross and the State_ On the S<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/welcome\/publications-3\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Publications Homepage HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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)\u00a0 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/larry-cata-backer-publications-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer Publications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2850\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}