George C. Christie
Forthcoming
- The Well-Intentioned Purpose but Weak Epistemological Foundation of Originalism, 51 Connecticut Law Review 451 (forthcoming)
Books
- Advanced Torts: Cases and Materials (West Publishing, 1st ed. 2004, 2nd ed. 2012, West Academic Publishing, 3rd ed. 2018) (with Joseph Sanders)
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (Thomson/West, 5th ed. 2012) (with others)
- Philosopher Kings? Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Jurisprudence: Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law (Thomson/West, 1973, 2d ed. 1995, 3d ed. 2008) (with Patrick H. Martin)
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (Thomson/West 1983, 2d ed. 1990 with James E. Meeks) (3d ed. 1997, 4th ed. 2004 with Meeks et al.)
- The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument (Kluwer Academic, 2000) French translation, L'auditoire universel dans l'argumentation juridique (Guy Haarscher trans., Bruylant 2005)
- Outline of the Law of Torts (Casenotes Publishing Co., 1st ed. 1992, 2d ed. 1996) (with Jerry Phillips)
- Jurisprudence--Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law (1st ed. 1973, 2d ed. 1995)
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (West Publishing, 2d ed. 1990) (with James E. Meeks)
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (West Publishing, 1983)
- Law, Norms and Authority (Duckworth, 1982)
- Sum and Substance of the Law of Torts (1980)
Articles and Essays
- Some Reasons Courts Have Become Active Participants in the Search for Ultimate Moral and Political Truth, in Le Droit Comparé et...[Comparative Law and...] 315-321 (Alexis Albanian & Olivier Moreteau eds., 2015)
- The Uneasy and Often Unhelpful Interaction of Tort Law and Constitutional Law in First Amendment Litigation, 98 Marquette Law Review 1003-1034 (2015)
- Can the Law Meet the Demands Made of It?, in A Revolution in the International Rule of Law: Essays in Honor of Don Wallace, Jr. 37-47 (Borzu Sabahi et al. eds., 2014)
- La Interseccion de la Responsabilidad Extracontractual y el Derecho Constitucional y los Derechos Humanos [The Intersection of Extracontractual Liability and Constitutional Law and Human Rights], in La Filosofia de la Responsabilidad Civil: Estudios Sobre los Fundamentos Filosofico-Jurisdicos de la Repsonsabilidad Civil Extracontractual 591-608 (Carlos Bernal Pulido & Jorge Fabra Zamora eds., 2013)
- Freedom of Expression and Its Competitors, 31 Civil Justice Quarterly 466-474 (2012)
- Judicial Decision Making in a World of Natural Law and Natural Rights, 57 Villlanova Law Review 811-822 (2012)
- The Merger of Morality, Politics, and Law in the Adjudicatory Process, in Pensees du Droit Lois de la Philosophie 29-37 (T. Berns & J. Allard eds., 2012)
- A Review of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, 37 William Mitchell Law Review 1485-1491 (2011)
- In Appreciation: Katharine T. Bartlett, 56 Duke Law Journal i-xii (2007) (with others)
- Justice and the Law, in Justice in Particular: Festschrift in Honour of Professor P.J. Kozyris 67 (2007)
- The Rational and the Reasonable in Legal and Moral Argument, 8 Isopolitea 11-33 (2007)
- The Unwarranted Conclusions Drawn From Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. Concerning the Defense Of Necessity, Issues in Legal Scholarship art. 7 (2006)
- The Adjudication of Human Rights, 13 Jahrbuch fr recht und ethik (Philosophia Practica Universalis) 417-436 (2005)
- The Importance of Recognizing the Underlying Assumptions of Legal and Moral Arguments: of Law and Rawls, 28 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 39-52 (2003)
- Some Key Jurisprudential Issues of the Twenty-First Century, 8 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (2000)
- The Ideal Audience in a World of Different Legal Traditions, 4 Isopoliteia (2000) (written and published in Greek)
- Obedience/Disobedience to Constituted Authority, in Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (1999)
- Reason and Will: A Comment, 10 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 249 (1999)
- The Defense of Necessity Considered from the Legal and Moral Points of View, 48 Duke Law Journal 975 (1999)
- The Uneasy Place of Principle in Tort Law, 49 SMU Law Review 525 (1996)
- Afterword, in Criminologie de l'Acte et Philosophie Penale (L. Negrier-Dormont & S. Tzitzis, 1994)
- The Universal Audience and the Law, in Chaim Perelman et la Pensée Contemporaine (Guy Haarsher ed., 1994)
- Foreword, in The Constitutional Problem of Subversive Advocacy in the United States of America and Greece (I.A. Tassopoulos, 1993)
- Ideal Theories of Argument and the Dishonest Judge, 2 EUDIKIA (Revue du Centre Internationale de Philosophie et de Théorie du Droit) 53 (1992)
- Judicial Review of Findings of Fact, 87 Northwestern University Law Review 14 (1992)
- Current Trends in the American Law of Punitive Damages, 20 Anglo-American Law Review 349 (1991)
- On the Moral Obligation to Obey the Law, 1990 Duke Law Journal 1311-1336
- The Influence of Form on the Nature of Authority, 18 Contemporary Sociology 93 (1989) (reviewing M. Damaska, The Faces of Justice and State Authority (1986))
- Book Review, 4 Constitutional Commentary 400-409 (1987) (reviewing Laura Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-60 (1986)
- Dworkin's Empire, 36 Duke Law Journal 157-189 (1987) (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (1986))
- The Recruitment of Law Faculty, 1987 Duke Law Journal 306
- An Essay on Discretion, 1986 Duke Law Journal 747
- The Universal Audience and Predictive Theories of Law, 5 Law & Philosophy 343 (1986)
- Why the First Amendment Should Not Be Interpreted From the Pathological Perspective: A Response to Professor Blasi, 1986 Duke Law Journal 683
- Due Process of Law--A Confused and Confusing Notion, in Les Notions a Contenu Variable en Droit 157 (C. Perelman & R. Vander Elst eds., 1984)
- Mechanical Jurisprudence, in 7 Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia 321 (1984)
- Positive Law, in 8 Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia 237 (1984)
- Reason and Law, 80 Michigan Law Review 715 (1982) (reviewing Chaim Perelman, Justice, Law and Argument: Essays in Moral and Legal Reasoning (1980))
- The Perils of Writing an Intellectual History of Torts, 79 Michigan Law Review 947 (1981) (reviewing G. Edward White, Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History (1980))
- Underlying Contradictions in the Supreme Court's Classification of Defamation, 1981 Duke Law Journal 811
- Legal Aspects of Changing University Investment Strategies, 58 North Carolina Law Review 301 (1980)
- Reflections Upon a Recent Trip to China and Possible Changes in the Chinese Legal System, 1 Duke Docket (1979)
- Defamatory Opinions and the Restatement (Second) of Torts, 75 Michigan Law Review 1621 (1977)
- The Moral Legitimacy of the Minimal State, 19 Arizona Law Review 31 (1977)
- Injury to Reputation and the Constitution: Confusion Amidst Conflicting Approaches, 75 Michigan Law Review 43 (1976)
- Rhetoric, Consistency, and Human Progress, Legal or Otherwise, 26 Catholic University Law Review 73 (1976)
- A Model of Judicial Review of Legislation, 48 Southern California Law Review 1306 (1975)
- Book Review (1974) (reviewing William Twining, Karl Llwellyn and the Realist Movement (1974))
- Lawful Departure from Legal Rules: "Jury Nullification" and Legitimated Disobedience, 62 California Law Review 1289 (1974)
- Book Review, 67 American Political Science Review 1369 (1973) (reviewing Clarence Morris, The Justification of the Law (1972))
- Book Review, 58 ABA Journal 494-497 (1972) (reviewing Goebel, Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 (Volume I of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Case History of the Supreme Court of the United States)
- Government Surveillance and Individual Freedom: A Proposed Statutory Response to Laird v. Tatum and the Broader Problem of Government Surveillance of the Individual, 47 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 871 (1972)
- Some Thoughts on the Nature of Institutional Obligations, in Human Rights-- AMINTAPHIL I (1971)
- The Right to Privacy and the Freedom to Know: A Comment on Professor Miller's "The Assault on Privacy", 119 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 970 (1971)
- Presumptions and Assumptions in the Criminal Law: Another View, 1970 Duke Law Journal 919 (with A. Kenneth Pye)
- Objectivity in the Law, 78 Yale Law Journal 1311 (1969)
- Personal and Institutional Rights in Community, 18 Catholic University Law Review 1-22 (1968)
- Personal and Institutional Rights in Community, 159 American Ecclesiastical Review 73 (1968)
- Some Thoughts on the Legal Problems Raised by the Prospect of Genetic Manipulation, Duke Alumni Register 4 (September 1968)
- The Model of Principles, 1968 Duke Law Journal 649
- Book Review, 1967 Duke Law Journal 223-228 (reviewing Samuel Enoch Stumpf, Morality and the Law (1966))
- Book Review, 41 New York University Law Review 238-240 (1966) (reviewing R.R. Baxter, The Law of International Waterways (Harvard University Press, 1964))
- The Notion of Validity in Modern Jurisprudence, 48 Minnesota Law Review 1049 (1964)
- Vagueness and Legal Language, 48 Minnesota Law Review 885 (1964)
- What Constitutes a Taking of Property Under International Law?, 1962 British Yearbook of International Law 307