Jedediah Purdy

Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

purdy@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 4178, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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

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2. Previous Duke Appointments & Affiliations

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1. Recent Courses

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1. Service to Duke

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Foreword

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2025 Link to item Cite

The Possible Futures of American Democracy

Journal article Utah Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Promise of American Life

Journal article The New Republic · 2022 Cite

Who Are the People?

Journal article Dissent · 2022 Link to item Cite

A Possible Majority

Journal article Dissent · 2021 Link to item Cite

Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2020 Link to item Cite

After Carbon Democracy

Journal article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement

Journal article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Deep Problems

Journal article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Solidarity and Crisis

Journal article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Just in Theory

Journal article The New Republic · 2019 Cite

The Long Environmental Justice Movement

Journal article Ecology Law Quarterly · 2018 Link to item Cite

Whose Lands? Which Public? The Shape of Public-Lands Law and Trump's National Monument Proclamations

Journal article Ecology Law Quarterly · 2018 Link to item Cite

Beyond the Bosses' Constitution: The First Amendment and Class Retrenchment

Journal article Columbia Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Normcore

Journal article Dissent · 2018 Link to item Cite

Inequality Rediscovered

Journal article Theoretical Inquiries in Law · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Original Theory of Constitutionalism

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Paleo Politics

Journal article · 2017 Cite

A Billionaires’ Republic

Journal article Nation · 2017 Cite

Citizen Activism and the Courts

Journal article American Prospect · 2017 Cite

Coming into the Anthropocene

Journal article Harvard Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

This Land is Our Land

Journal article Democracy · 2016 Cite

What is the Constitution For?

Journal article New Republic · 2016 Cite

'Blood and Earth,' by Kevin Bales

Journal article New York Times · 2016 Cite

A Wild Way to Save the Planet

Journal article New Republic · 2016 Cite

The Violent Remaking of Appalachia

Journal article Atlantic · 2016 Cite

Votes of No Confidence

Journal article BookForum · 2016 Cite

Red-State Blues

Journal article · 2016 Cite

The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase's "Four Futures"

Journal article LA Review of Books · 2016 Cite

License to Kill

Journal article Artforum International · 2016 Cite

Overcoming the Great Forgetting: A Comment on Fishkin and Forbath

Journal article Texas Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Two Populisms

Journal article Nation · 2016 Cite

What Real Difference Does the Gross Domestic Product Make?

Journal article Cultural Dynamics · 2016 Cite

Wild Again: A Drastic Plan to Save the World from Ecological Ruin

Journal article The New Republic · 2016 Cite

Obama’s Legacy and Beyond

Journal article Juncture · 2016 Cite

Introduction: Law and Neoliberalism

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2015 Link to item Cite

That We are Underlings: The Real Problems in Disciplining Political Spending and the First Amendment

Journal article Constitutional Commentary · 2015 Link to item Cite

Maybe Connect

Journal article Los Angeles Review of Books · 2015 Cite

The Mushroom that Explains the World

Journal article New Republic · 2015 Cite

Black-Robed Reactionaries: Has the Supreme Court Been Bad for the American Republic?

Journal article BookForum · 2014 Cite

To Have and Have Not

Journal article Los Angeles Review of Books · 2014 Cite

Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2013 Link to item Cite

Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment on Hanoch Dagan's "Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law"

Journal article Columbia Law Review Sidebar · 2013 Link to item Cite

The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality

Journal article American Journal of Law & Medicine · 2012 Link to item Cite

American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law

Journal article Harvard Environmental Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

A Foxy Hedgehog: The Consistent Perception of Carol Rose

Journal article William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2011 Link to item Cite

The Politics of Nature: Climate Change, Environmental Law, and Democracy

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2010 Link to item Cite

What Has to Change for Forests to Be Saved? A Historical Example From the United States

Journal article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2009 Link to item Cite

A Few Questions About the Social-Obligation Norm

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Presidential Popular Constitutionalism

Journal article Fordham Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change

Journal article Environmental Law Reporter · 2008 Link to item Cite

Climate Change and the Limits of the Possible

Journal article Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2008 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography and Nationhood

Journal article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

People as Resources: Recruitment and Reciprocity in the Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh

Journal article George Washington Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Sovereigns, Trustees, Guardians: Private-Law Concepts and the Limits of Legitimate State Power

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2007 Link to item Cite

History, Human Nature, and Property Regimes: Filling in the Civilizing Argument

Journal article Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics

Journal article Alabama Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics

Journal article Democracy · 2006 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationhood

Journal article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation

Journal article Cornell Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Limits of Courage and Principle

Journal article Michigan Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal article Ethics & International Affairs · 2005 Link to item Cite

A Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property: A Renewed Tradition for New Debates

Journal article University of Chicago Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

The Ethics of Empire, Again (Review Essay)

Journal article California Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now

Journal article Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies · 2004 Link to item Cite

Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments

Journal article Ethics and International Affairs · 2003 Link to item Cite

The Values of the Market

Journal article New America Foundation: Ethics and International Affairs · 2002 Cite

So Sue Me

Journal article New York Times Book Review · 2001 Cite