Margaret H. Lemos

Robert G. Seaks Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

lemos@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 3030, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Selected Publications

The Solicitor General, Consistency, and Credibility

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

New Ideas About How Judges Think

Other Judicature · 2023 Cite

Dysfunction, Deference, and Judicial Review

Journal Article George Mason Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Judicial Decision-Making: A Coursebook

Journal Article · 2020 Link to item Cite

State-Local Litigation Conflicts

Journal Article Wisconsin Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Foreward: State Enforcement in an Interstate World

Journal Article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2020 Cite

Patriotic Philanthropy? Financing the State with Gifts to Government

Journal Article California Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Accountability and Independence for Public Enforcement

Journal Article · 2018 Cite

Public Programs, Private Financing

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2018 Link to item Cite

State Public Law Litigation in an Age of Polarization

Journal Article · 2018 Cite

State Public-Law Litigation in an Age of Polarization

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Comment on Laurence Claus, The Divided Executive

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2018 Link to item Cite

Democratic Enforcement? Accountability and Independence for the Litigation State

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Three Models of Adjudicative Representation

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

The State of the Judiciary

Other Judicature · 2017 Cite

Privatizing Public Litigation

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2016 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Political Science Quarterly · 2016 Cite

Practice and Precedent in Historical Gloss Games

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal Online · 2016 Link to item Cite

Litigating State Interests: Attorney General as Amici

Journal Article NYU Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

For-Profit Public Enforcement

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Interpretive Methodology and Delegations to Courts: Are "Common-Law Statutes" Different?

Conference · 2013 Link to item Cite

The Politics of Statutory Interpretation

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

Aggregate Litigation Goes Public: Representative Suits by State Attorneys General

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

State Enforcement of Federal Law

Journal Article New York University Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Strategic Enforcement

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Special Incentives to Sue

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

The Consequences of Congress's Choice of Delegate: Judicial and Agency Interpretations of Title VII

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

The Solicitor General as Mediator Between Court and Agency

Journal Article Michigan State Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

The Other Delegate: Judicially Administered Statutes and the Nondelegation Doctrine

Journal Article Southern California Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Commerce Power and Criminal Punishment: Presumption of Constitutionality or Presumption of Innocence?

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Section 5 Mystique, Morrison, and the Future of Federal Antidiscrimination Law

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Civil Challenges to the Use of Low-Bid Contracts for Indigent Defense

Journal Article New York University Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite