H. Jefferson Powell
Books
- Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- The President as Commander in Chief: An Essay in Constitutional Vision (Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
- Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Carolina Academic Press, 2013) (editor with others)
- Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (University of Michigan Press, 2009) (editor with James B. White)
- No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford University Press, 2009) (with David L. Lange)
- William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America (original ed. 1825, 2d ed. 1829) (H. Jefferson Powell ed., Carolina Academic Press 2009)
- Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
- A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2002, rev. ed. 2005)
- The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Essay in Constitutional Interpretation (Carolina Academic Press, 2002)
- William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (original ed. 1916) (H. Jefferson Powell ed., Carolina Academic Press 2002)
- The Constitution and the Attorneys General (Carolina Academic Press, 1999)
- The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation (Duke University Press, 1993)
- Languages of Power: A Source Book of Early American Constitutional History (Carolina Academic Press, 1991)
Articles and Essays
- The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition, 103 Judicature 24-32 (2019)
- Professor Greenawalt's Unfashionable Idea, 115 Columbia Law Review 790 (2015)
- Slow Reading and Living Speech: James Boyd White on What a Constitutional Law Opinion is For, in Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White ch. 5 (Julen Etxabe & Gary Watt eds., 2014)
- The Humanity of Law, in Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought 101-120 (Patrick McKinley Brenann, H. Jefferson Powell & Jack Sammons eds, 2013)
- William Rawle and Secession: Legal Rights and Political Wrongs, in Union and States' Rights: A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter 111-126 (Neil H. Cogan ed., 2013)
- A Dialogue Between a Theologian and a Lawyer, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems 221-231 (No. 4, 2012) (with Stanley Hauerwas)
- Reasoning About the Irrational: The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, 86 Washington Law Review 217-280 (2011)
- The Conflicted Assumptions of Modern Constitutional Law, 5 Journal of Law, Philosophy & Culture 167-194 (2011)
- The Regrettable Clause: United States v. Comstock and the Powers of Congress, 48 San Diego Law Review 713-722 (2011)
- Book Review, 97 Journal of American History 499 (2010) (reviewing, Thomas H. Cox, Gibbons v. Ogden, Law and Society in the Early Republic (2009))
- Further Reflections on Not Being "Not an Originalist", 7 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 288-309 (2010)
- Humanity of Law, 55 Villlanova Law Review 1161-1176 (2010)
- On Not Being "Not an Originalist", 7 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 259-280 (2010)
- 'William Bradford,' 'Edmund Randolph,' and 'William Wirt', in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 66-67 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009)
- A Response to Professor Knight, 'Are Empiricists Asking the Right Questions about Judicial Decisionmaking?', 58 Duke Law Journal 1725-1730 (2009)
- Law as a Tool, in Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force 250-264 (James B. White & H. Jefferson Powell eds, 2009)
- The Story of Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation, in Presidential Power Stories 195-232 (Christopher H. Schroeder & Curtis A. Bradley eds., 2009)
- A Teacher, 105 Michigan Law Review 1393-95 (2007)
- Foreword, in Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (Patrick McKinley Brennan ed., 2007)
- Constitutional Virtues, 9 Green Bag 379-389 (2006)
- For Lash: Who Asks the Right Questions, 63 Washington & Lee Law Review 11-14 (2006) (Tribute to Lewis H. Larue)
- Grand Visions in an Age of Conflict, 115 Yale Law Journal 2067-2092 (2006)
- Preface, in Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (2006) (rev. ed. 2006)
- The Executive and the Avoidance Canon, 81 Indiana Law Journal 1313-1318 (2006)
- 'Calder v. Bull,' and 'Higher Law', in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 135-36 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2005)
- Should Creed or Constitution Guide the Judiciary?, in Powerweb: Legal Environment of Business (Fred H. Maidment ed., 2005)
- The Constitutional Importance of Books, 13 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 13-18 (2004)
- The Three Independences, 38 University of Richmond Law Review 603-614 (2004)
- Reflections on a Conversation, 19 Georgia State University Law Review 931-945 (2003) (Symposium on H. Jefferson Powell, The President's Authority over Foreign Affairs (2002))
- Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and 'Bush v. Gore', 17 Journal of Law & Politics 333 (2002)
- The Desirability of Politics, 5 Green Bag 2d 279 (2002)
- Attorney General Taney and the South Carolina Police Bill, 5 Green Bag 2d 75 (2001)
- The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic, in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought 73 (Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., & Angela Carmella eds., 2001)
- The Right to Self-Government After Bush v. Gore (2001) (Duke Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 26, December 2001)
(with Paul D. Carrington)
- William Wirt and the Invention of the Public Lawyer, 4 Green Bag 2d 297 (2001)
- Convenient Shorthand: The Supreme Court and the Language of State Sovereignty, 71 University of Colorado Law Review 645 (2000) (with Benjamin J. Priester)
- The Judge, 78 North Carolina Law Review 1709 (2000) (Tribute to the Honorable Sam J. Ervin, III)
- With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment, 78 North Carolina Law Review 371 (2000) (with Robert P. Mosteller)
- Marshall's Question, 2 Green Bag 2d 367 (1999) (with Walter Dellinger)
- The Founders and the President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs, 40 William & Mary Law Review 1471 (1999)
- The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Executive Branch Perspective, 67 George Washington Law Review 527 (1999)
- Who's Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?, 74 Chicago-Kent Law Review 393 (1999)
- Laying it on the Line: A Dialogue on Line Item Vetoes and Separation of Powers, 47 Duke Law Journal 1171 (1998) (with Jed Rubenfeld)
- The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans, 77 North Carolina Law Review 241 (1998)
- The Province and Duty of Political Departments (1998) (reviewing, David P. Currie, The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period (1997))
- Book Review, 40 American Journal of Legal History 377 (1996) (reviewing Scott Douglas Gerber, To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation (1995))
- Book Review, 82 Journal of American History 1561 (1996) (reviewing, William R. Casto, The Supreme Court in the Early Republic (1995))
- Loyalty to the Law: Politics and the Practice of Public Lawyering in the United States, 72 Notre Dame Law Review 78 (1996)
- The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Constitutional Commentary 309 (1996) (with Walter Dellinger)
- Creation as Apocalyptic: A Homage to William Stringfellow, in Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer 31 (Andrew W. McThenia Jr. ed., 1995) (republished in, Hauerwas, Dispatches from the Front: Theological Engagements with the Secular 107 (1995)
(with Stanley Hauerwas)
- Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends, 94 Michigan Law Review 651 (1995)
- Constitutional Investigations, 72 Texas Law Review 1731 (1994)
- Joseph Story, in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary 435 (Melvin I. Urofsky ed., 1994) (rev. ed. 2006)
- The Constitutionality of the Bank Bill: The Attorney General's First Constitutional Law Opinions, 44 Duke Law Journal 110 (1994) (with Walter Dellinger)
- The Principles of '98: An Essay in Historical Retrieval, 80 Virginia Law Review 689 (1994)
- "Cardozo's Foot": The Chancellor's Conscience and Constructive Trusts, 56 Law & Contemporary Problems 7 (Summer 1993)
- Book Review, 49 William & Mary Quarterly 184 (1993) (reviewing Martin Diamond, As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Essays (1992))
- Book Review, 79 Journal of American History 1592 (1993) (reviewing, A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law--1791 and 1991 (Michael J. Lacey & Knud Haakonssen eds., 1991))
- Book Review, 80 Journal of American History 1081 (1993) (reviewing Alan Watson, Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors (1992))
- Enslaved to Judicial Supremacy?, 106 Harvard Law Review 1197 (1993) (reviewing Robert A. Burt, The Constitution in Conflict (1992))
- The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law, 79 Virginia Law Review 633 (1993)
- The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law, 73 North Carolina Law Review 949 (1993)
- Calder v. Bull, Higher Law, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 114 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 1992) (rev. ed. 2005)
- Transparency, Opacity and Openness in Narrative, 40 Journal of Legal Education 161 (1990)
- Social Theory as Exegetical Tool, Forum 27 (Dec. 1989)
- Book Review, 46 William & Mary Quarterly 828 (1989) (reviewing Leonard Levy, Original Intent and the Framers Constitution (1988))
- Rationality of the Common Law, 64 Notre Dame Law Review 767 (1989) (reviewing Melvin A. Eisenberg, The Nature of the Common Law (1988))
- Reimagining the Marshall Court, 87 Michigan Law Review 1527 (1989) (reviewing G. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change (1988))
- The Uses of State Constitutional History: A Case Note, 54 Albany Law Review 283 (1989)
- Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation, 45 Washington & Lee Law Review 467 (1988) (with others)
- Reviving Republicanism, 98 Yale Law Journal 1703 (1988)
- The Gospel According to Roberto: A Theological Polemic, 1988 Duke Law Journal 1013 (reprinted in 5 Modern Theology 97 (1989))
- How the Constitution Structures Government: The Founders' Views, in A Workable Government: The Constitution after 200 Years 13 (Burke Marshall ed., 1987)
- Rules for Originalists, 73 Virginia Law Review 659 (1987)
- The Ambiguities of Pledging Faith, 29 William & Mary Law Review 169 (1987)
- The Modern Misunderstanding of Original Intent, 54 University of Chicago Law Review 1513 (1987) (reviewing Raoul Berger, Federalism: The Founders' Design (1987))
- Book Note, 4 Law and History Review 214 (1986) (reviewing Peter Charles Hoffer & William B Scott, Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia (1984))
- Consensus and Objectivity in Early Constitutional Interpretation: An Unproven Thesis, 65 Texas Law Review 859 (1986) (reviewing Christopher Wolfe, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (1986))
- Constitutional Law as Though the Constitution Mattered, 35 Duke Law Journal 915-927 (1986) (reviewing Walter F. Murphy, American Constitutional Interpretation (1986))
- Parchment Matters: A Meditation on the Constitution as Text, 71 Iowa Law Review 1427 (1986)
- Reaching the Limits of Traditional Constitutional Scholarship, 80 Northwestern Law Review 1128 (1986) (reviewing Laurence Tribe, Constitutional Choices (1985))
- The Rehnquist Court: A Dissenting Opinion, 25 Iowa Advocate 27 (1986)
- Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution: A Belated Review, 94 Yale Law Journal 1285 (1985)
- The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harvard Law Review 885 (1985) (reprinted in A Constitutional Law Anthology (Michael J. Glennon ed., 1997))
- The Compleat Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism, 91 Yale Law Journal 1317 (1982)
- The Byzantine Army, 2 Miniature Parade 17 (1969)
Newspaper Articles and Commentary
- The Targeted Killing of American Citizens, OUPblog (September 22, 2016)
- In Praise of Eternal Youth, Duke Law Magazine (October 01, 2015 21-22)
- EPA Plan Needs a Debate Based on Reason, Boston Globe (April 11, 2015) (with others)
Multimedia
- The Contracts Experience(DVD course materials)
(2002) (with others)