Scholars@Duke
H. Jefferson Powell

H. Jefferson Powell

Professor of Law
School of Law
powell@law.duke.edu
Duke Box 90362, Duke Law School, Durham, NC 27708-0362
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Room 4190 Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0362

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The Harlan Court: A Constitutional Alternate History

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Imagining the United States: Reflections From Constitutional Law

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Law as a Language, Law as an Art: Reflections on James Boyd White’s Keep Law Alive

Journal article British Journal of American Legal Studies · 2021 Link to item Cite

The United States as an Idea: Constitutional Reflections

Journal article Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2018 Link to item Cite

Professor Greenawalt's Unfashionable Idea

Journal article Columbia Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

A Dialogue Between a Theologian and a Lawyer

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2012 Link to item Cite

The Conflicted Assumptions of Modern Constitutional Law

Journal article Journal of Law, Philosophy & Culture · 2011 Link to item Cite

Humanity of Law

Journal article Villlanova Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

On Not Being "Not an Originalist"

Journal article University of Saint Thomas Law Journal · 2010 Link to item Cite

Further Reflections on Not Being "Not an Originalist"

Journal article University of Saint Thomas Law Journal · 2010 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article Journal of American History · 2010 Link to item Cite

A Teacher

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Constitutional Virtues

Journal article Green Bag · 2006 Cite

For Lash: Who Asks the Right Questions

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Grand Visions in an Age of Conflict

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Constitutional Importance of Books

Journal article Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues · 2004 Cite

The Three Independences

Journal article University of Richmond Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Reflections on a Conversation

Journal article Georgia State University Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and 'Bush v. Gore'

Journal article Journal of Law & Politics · 2002 Link to item Cite

The Desirability of Politics

Journal article Green Bag 2d · 2002 Cite

The Judge

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Marshall's Question

Journal article Green Bag 2d · 1999 Link to item Cite

Who's Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?

Journal article Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

The Province and Duty of the Political Departments

Journal article University of Chicago Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion

Journal article Constitutional Commentary · 1996 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article American Journal of Legal History · 1996 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article Journal of American History · 1996 Link to item Cite

Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 1995 Link to item Cite

Constitutional Investigations

Journal article Texas Law Review · 1994 Link to item Cite

The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 1993 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article Journal of American History · 1993 Link to item Cite

Reviews of Books

Journal article William & Mary Quarterly · 1993 Link to item Cite

Enslaved to Judicial Supremacy?

Journal article Harvard Law Review · 1993 Link to item Cite

The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law

Journal article Virginia Law Review · 1993 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article Journal of American History · 1993 Link to item Cite

Transparency, Opacity and Openness in Narrative

Journal article Journal of Legal Education · 1990 Link to item Cite

Social Theory as Exegetical Tool

Journal article Forum · 1989 Cite

The Rationality of the Common Law

Journal article Notre Dame Law Review · 1989 Link to item Cite

Reviews of Books

Journal article William & Mary Quarterly · 1989 Link to item Cite

Reimagining the Marshall Court

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 1989 Link to item Cite

Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation

Journal article Washington & Lee Law Review · 1988 Cite

Reviving Republicanism

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 1988 Link to item Cite

The Ambiguities of Pledging Faith

Journal article William & Mary Law Review · 1987 Link to item Cite

Rules for Originalists

Journal article Virginia Law Review · 1987 Link to item Cite

The Modern Misunderstanding of Original Intent

Journal article University of Chicago Law Review · 1987 Link to item Cite

The Rehnquist Court: A Dissenting Opinion

Journal article Iowa Advocate · 1986 Cite

Book Note

Journal article Law and History Review · 1986 Link to item Cite

The Original Understanding of Original Intent

Journal article Harvard Law Review · 1985 Link to item Cite

The Byzantine Army

Journal article Miniature Parade · 1969 Cite