Neil S. Siegel

David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

siegel@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 3178, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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

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Selected Publications

Historical Gloss, Constitutional Conventions, and the Judicial Separation of Powers

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Sex Equality's Past--and Future: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion

Book · 2017 Cite

Judicial and Media Independence After the Next Attack

Other Lawfare · 2017 Cite

Anthony Kennedy is Not Stupid

Other Slate · 2017 Cite

The Democrats Can't Block Gorsuch

Other Slate · 2017 Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in Response to President Trump

Other Balkinization · 2017 Cite

Norms and Conventions Meet Donald Trump

Other Oxford Human Rights Hub · 2017 Cite

The U.S. Constitution, Constitutionational Conventions, and President Trump

Other Oxford Human Rights Hub · 2017 Cite

John Roberts, Ted Olson, and the Judicial Separation of Powers

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Constitutional Conventions, the Judicial Separation of Powers, and Justice Scalia's Replacement

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Coercion and Collective Action

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

The American People will Decide the Supreme Court's Future Anyway

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

The Harm in the GOP's Pseudo-Principled Supreme Court Stance

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

Madison's Reasoning

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

A Litmus Test for Trump's Racism

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

The Supreme Court's Reassuring--and Concerning-- Abortion Ruling

Other ACSblog · 2016 Cite

The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Forum · 2016 Link to item Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in Federal Courts System

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

The Distinct Role of Justice Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Historical Gloss, Constitutional Conventions, and the Judicial Separation of Powers

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Sex Equality's Past--and Future: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion

Book · 2017 Cite

Judicial and Media Independence After the Next Attack

Other Lawfare · 2017 Cite

Anthony Kennedy is Not Stupid

Other Slate · 2017 Cite

The Democrats Can't Block Gorsuch

Other Slate · 2017 Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in Response to President Trump

Other Balkinization · 2017 Cite

Norms and Conventions Meet Donald Trump

Other Oxford Human Rights Hub · 2017 Cite

The U.S. Constitution, Constitutionational Conventions, and President Trump

Other Oxford Human Rights Hub · 2017 Cite

John Roberts, Ted Olson, and the Judicial Separation of Powers

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Constitutional Conventions, the Judicial Separation of Powers, and Justice Scalia's Replacement

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Coercion and Collective Action

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

The American People will Decide the Supreme Court's Future Anyway

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

The Harm in the GOP's Pseudo-Principled Supreme Court Stance

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

Madison's Reasoning

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

A Litmus Test for Trump's Racism

Other Hill · 2016 Cite

The Supreme Court's Reassuring--and Concerning-- Abortion Ruling

Other ACSblog · 2016 Cite

The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Forum · 2016 Link to item Cite

Reciprocal Legitimation in Federal Courts System

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

The Distinct Role of Justice Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent

Other Balkinization · 2016 Cite

Court-hacking Comes to North Carolina

Other News & Observer · 2016 Cite

Constructed Constraint and the Constitutional Text

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2015 Link to item Cite

Contraception as a Sex Equality Right

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Forum · 2015 Link to item Cite

Compelling Interests and Contraception

Journal Article Connecticut Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Coercive Taxing, Noncoercive Spending, and Strategic Bundling

Journal Article · 2015 Cite

Clear Text Versus Extra-Textual Considerations: Bond, Noel Canning, and King

Other Balkinization · 2015 Cite

Windsor: Encouraging Constitutional Change, Not (Just) Clearing the Channels of Political Change

Other Balkinization · 2015 Cite

Historical Gloss and the Judicial Power

Journal Article · 2015 Cite

Whole Woman's Health: Casey, Res Judicata, and Supreme Court Review

Other Balkinization · 2015 Cite

None of the Laws But One

Journal Article Drake Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Bundling Is Not Commandeering: Taxing Versus Spending in NFIB

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

Federalism as a Way Station: Windsor as Exemplar of Doctrine in Motion

Journal Article Journal of Legal Analysis · 2014 Link to item Cite

Madison's Reasoning

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

After Recess: Historical Practice, Textual Ambiguity, and Constitutional Adverse Possession

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Animus Versus Moral Opposition: Material and Expressive Considerations

Other Balkinization · 2014 Cite

Not the Power to Destroy or Dragoon: A Collective Action Theory of the Spending Power

Journal Article · 2013 Cite

Equality Arguments for Abortion Rights

Journal Article UCLA Law Review Discourse · 2013 Link to item Cite

The New Textualism, Progressive Constitutionalism, and Abortion Rights: A Reply to Jeffrey Rosen

Journal Article Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2013 Link to item Cite

More Law than Politics: The Chief, the "Mandate," Legality, and Statesmanship

Chapter · 2013 Link to item Cite

Collective Action Federalism and Its Discontents

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

Jack Balkin's Rich Historicism and Diet Originalism: Health Benefits and Risks for the Constitutional System

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

"Early-Bird Special" Indeed!: Why the Tax Anti-Injunction Act Permits the Present Challenges to the Minimum Coverage Provision

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Online · 2012 Link to item Cite

Does CNN Deserve to be Reelected?

Romney, Women, and the Supreme Court

The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ideas From the Academy

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2012 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

Distinguishing the 'Truly National' from the 'Truly Local': Customary Allocation, Commercial Activity, and Collective Action

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2012 Link to item Cite

Not the Power to Destroy: An Effects Theory of the Tax Power

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Free Riding on Benevolence: Collective Action Federalism and the Minimum Coverage Provision

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2012 Link to item Cite

Foreword: The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ideas from the Academy

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2012 Link to item Cite

Four Constitutional Limits that the Minimum Coverage Provision Respects

Journal Article Constitutional Commentary · 2011 Link to item Cite

Interring the Rhetoric of Judicial Activism

Journal Article DePaul Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

A Coase Theorem for Constitutional Theory

Journal Article Michigan State Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

Prudentialism in 'McDonald v. City of Chicago'

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2010 Link to item Cite

Collective Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section 8

Journal Article Stanford Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

Struck By Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2010 Open Access Link to item Cite

"Equal Citizenship Stature": Justice Ginsburg's Constitutional Vision

Journal Article New England Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Pregnancy and Sex-Role Stereotyping, From 'Struck' to 'Carhart'

Journal Article Ohio State Law Journal · 2009 Link to item Cite

Yes, the Justices Indeed 'Make Law'

Other News & Observer · 2009 Cite

Dole's Future: A Strategic Analysis

Journal Article Supreme Court Economic Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Umpires at Bat: On Integration and Legitimation

Journal Article Constitutional Commentary · 2008 Link to item Cite

California Climate Change and the Constitution

Journal Article Environmental Forum · 2008 Link to item Cite

International Delegations and the Values of Federalism

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Meaning of the Court's Decision in the School Cases

Other Contra Costa Times · 2007 Cite

Theorizing the Law/Politics Distinction: Neutral Principles, Affirmative Action, and the Enduring Insight of Paul Mishkin

Journal Article California Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Time For Both Sides to Get Real About Alito

Other Durham Herald-Sun · 2006 Cite

Beware the Anti-Freedom Amendment

Other News & Observer · 2006 Cite

Detainees and the Constitution

Other News & Observer · 2006 Cite

Separating Childhood Heroes from Today's Politics

Other Philadelphia Inquirer · 2006 Cite

Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans: Balkanation, Integration, and Individualized Consideration

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Commandeering and Its Alternatives: A Federalism Perspective

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Some Modest Uses of Transnational Legal Perspectives in First-Year Constitutional Law

Journal Article Journal of Legal Education · 2006 Link to item Cite

Why President Bush Should Not Take the 5th

Other Houston Chronicle · 2005 Cite

The Rhetoric Behind Strict Constructionism

Other Durham Herald-Sun · 2005 Cite

Remembering Chief Justice Rehnquist

Justices Create Confusion in Sentencing by Declaring Guidelines Advisory

Other Daily Journal · 2005 Cite

Medical Marijuana: Read Between the Lines

Other News & Observer · 2005 Cite

Rigorous Questions Would Be Only Fair

Other Philadelphia Inquirer · 2005 Cite

Taking Issue: Americans Deserve Answers

Other National Public Radio Online · 2005 Cite

The Conservative Choice is a Moderate

Other News & Observer · 2005 Cite

A Prescription for Perilous Times

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2005 Link to item Cite

A Theory In Search of a Court, and Itself: Judicial Minimalism at the Supreme Court Bar

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

The Election and the U.S. Supreme Court

Other Chicago Tribune · 2004 Cite

Nomination Could Bridge Divide

Other Sun Sentinel · 2004 Cite

Why the Eleventh Amendment Always Matters, Even When Transaction Costs are Zero: A Reply to Professor Farber

Journal Article Constitutional Commentary · 2001 Link to item Cite

State Sovereign Immunity and Stare Decisis: Solving the Prisoners' Dilemma Within the Court

Journal Article California Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Sen and the Hart of Jurisprudence: A Critique of the Economic Analysis of Judicial Behavior

Journal Article California Law Review · 1999 Link to item Cite