Ernest A. Young

Alston & Bird Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

Duke Law School Room 3177, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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

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Selected Publications

Uncertain Enforcement and Standing to Sue

Journal Article · 2025 Link to item Cite

States in the Separation of Powers

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2025 Link to item Cite

State Sovereign Immunity After the Revolution

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Standing and Probabilistic Injury

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Federalism and Loyalty

Chapter · 2023 Cite

Standing in State Court

Journal Article · 2023 Cite

Many Models of Process Federalism

Chapter · 2023 Cite

Dying Constitutionalism and the Lost Years of the Fourteenth Amendment

Book · 2023 Cite

State Sovereign Immunity After the Revolution

Journal Article · 2023 Cite

Standing, Equity, and Injury in Fact

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Unpacking Third-Party Standing

Journal Article Yale Law Journal · 2021 Link to item Cite

Chaos, Accomplishment, and Work, or, What I Learned on Paternity Leave

Journal Article Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020 Link to item Cite

Smoke Next Time: Nullification, Commandeering, and the Future of Marijuana Regulation

Chapter · 2020 Cite

Dying Constitutionalism and the Fourteenth Amendment

Journal Article Marquette Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Erie as a Way of Life

Journal Article Akron Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Foreign Affairs Federalism in the United States

Chapter · 2019 Link to item Cite

State Standing and Cooperative Federalism

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Dartmouth College v. Woodward and the Structure of Civil Society

Journal Article The University of New Hampshire Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

A Comparative Perspective

Chapter · 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

Against Amendments

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

Federalism as a Check on Executive Authority: State Public Litigation, Executive Authority, and Political Polarization

Journal Article Texas Review of Law & Politics · 2018 Cite

The Supreme Court and the Constitution

Book · 2017 Link to item Cite

What Can Europe Tell Us About the Future of American Federalism?

Journal Article Arizona State Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

The State of the Judiciary

Other Judicature · 2017 Cite

Our Prescriptive Judicial Power: Constitutive and Entrenchment Effects of Historical Practice in Federal Courts Law

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

Symposium: United States v. Texas and the future of state-federal litigation

Other Scotusblog · 2016 Cite

Almost Legal: Disobedience and Partial Nullification in American Constitutional Politics and Law

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Marijuana, Nullification, and the Checks and Balances Model of Federalism

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Universal Jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and Transnational Public Law Litigation after Kiobel

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2015 Link to item Cite

Constitutionalism Outside the Courts

Chapter · 2015 Link to item Cite

The Volk of New Jersey? State Identity, Distinctiveness, and Political Culture in the American Federal System

Journal Article · 2015 Link to item Cite

Federalism as a Constitutional Principle

Journal Article University of Cincinnati · 2015 Link to item Cite

Federalism as a Constitutional Principle

Journal Article University of Cincinnati Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Modern-Day Nullification: Marijuana and the Persistence of Federalism in an Age of Overlapping Regulatory Jurisdiction

Journal Article Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Daniel J. Meltzer '75: 1951-2015

Other Harvard Law Today · 2015 Cite

The Puzzling Persistence of Dual Federalism

Chapter · 2014 Link to item Cite

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty as Federalism Strategies: Lessons from the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Journal Article University of Colorado Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Is There a Federal Definitions Power?

Journal Article Case Western Reserve University Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Prudential Standing After Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc.

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2014 Link to item Cite

How Customary is Customary International Law?

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

A Research Agenda for Uncooperative Federalists

Journal Article Tulsa Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

A General Defense of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

Journal Article Journal of Law, Economics & Policy · 2013 Link to item Cite

Federalism, Liberty, and Equality in United States v. Windsor

Journal Article 2012-2013 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. · 2013 Link to item Cite

United States v. Windsor And The Role Of State Law In Defining Rights Claims

Journal Article Virginia Law Review Online · 2013 Link to item Cite

In Praise of Judge Fletcher--And of General Standing Principles

Journal Article Alabama Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

The Constitutional Law of State Debt

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2012 Link to item Cite

Sorrell v. IMS Health and the End of the Constitutional Double Standard

Journal Article Vermont Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

The Supreme Court and the Constitutional Structure

Book · 2012 Link to item Cite

Justice and Politics for All: An Authority on Constitutional Law Passes Judgment on Recent Supreme Court Cases,

Other Dartmouth Alumni Magazine · 2012 Link to item Cite

Its Hour Come Round at Last?: State Sovereign Immunity and the Great State Debt Crisis of the Early Twenty-First Century

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2012 Link to item Cite

'The Ordinary Diet of the Law': The Presumption Against Preemption in the Roberts Court

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Judicial Takings and Collateral Attack on State Court Property Decisions

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2011 Link to item Cite

The Story of 'Gregory v. Ashcroft ' (1991): Clear Statement Rules and the Statutory Constitution of American Federalism

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Big Picture Issues in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting

Chapter · 2011 Cite

The Story of Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino: Federal Judicial Power in Foreign Relations Cases

Chapter · 2010 Cite

What Does it Take to Make a Federal System? On Constitutional Entrenchment, Separate Spheres, and Identity

Journal Article Tulsa Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

The Continuity of Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation: An Essay for Phil Frickey

Journal Article California Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

Historical Practice and the Contemporary Debate Over Customary International Law

Journal Article Columbia Law Review Sidebar · 2009 Link to item Cite

Justice Souter's Conservatism

Other ACS (American Constitutional Society) Blog · 2009 Cite

Does the Supreme Court Follow the Economic Returns? A Response to 'A Macrotheory of the Court'

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2009 Link to item Cite

Treaties as "Part of our Law"

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

The Constitutive and Entrenchment Functions of Constitutions: A Research Agenda

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law · 2008 Link to item Cite

Supranational Rulings As Judgments and Precedents

Journal Article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2008 Link to item Cite

Curricula and Complacency: A Response To Professor Levinson

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Pocket Part · 2008 Link to item Cite

Welcome to the Dark Side: Liberals Rediscover Federalism In the Wake of the War on Terror

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Tennis with the Net Down: Administrative Federalism without Congress

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

Preemption and Federal Common Law

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Executive Preemption

Journal Article Northwestern University Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Constitution Outside the Constitution

Journal Article Yale Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Stalking the Yeti: Protective Jurisdiction, Foreign Affairs Removal, and Complete Preemption

Journal Article California Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Sosa and the Retail Incorporation of International Law

Journal Article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2007 Link to item Cite

Federal Suits and General Laws: A Comment on Judge Fletcher's Reading of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain

Journal Article Virginia Law Review In Brief · 2007 Link to item Cite

Toward a Framework Statute for Supranational Adjudication

Journal Article Emory Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Federal Preemption and State Autonomy

Chapter · 2007 Cite

The Constitution Outside the Constitution

Journal Article · 2007 Link to item Cite

The Conservative Case for Federalism

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Supranational Courts, Presidential Power, and the Medellin Case

Journal Article Federal Sentencing Reporter · 2006 Link to item Cite

What British Devolutionaries Should Know About American Federalism

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Taming the Most Dangerous Branch: The Scope and Accountability of Executive Power in the United States

Chapter · 2006 Link to item Cite

Just Blowing Smoke? Politics, Doctrine, and the "Federalist Revival" after Gonzales v. Raich

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

Foreign Law and the Denominator Problem (The Supreme Court, 2004 Term)

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

Institutional Settlement in a Globalizing Judicial System

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2005 Link to item Cite

Making Federalism Doctrine: Fidelity, Institutional Competence, and Compensating Adjustments

Journal Article William and Mary Law review · 2005 Link to item Cite

Suits Against a State

Journal Article · 2005 Cite

The Rehnquist Court's Two Federalisms

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

It's Just Water: Toward the Normalization of Admiralty

Journal Article Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce · 2004 Link to item Cite

Welcome to the Dark Side: Liberals Rediscover Federalism in the Wake of the War on Terror

Journal Article Brooklyn Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

English Constitutionalism circa 2005, or, Some Funny Things Happened After the Revolution

Journal Article Constitutional Commentary · 2004 Link to item Cite

The Trouble with Global Constitutionalism

Journal Article Texas International Law Journal · 2003 Link to item Cite

Is the Sky Falling on the Federal Government? State Sovereign Immunity, the Section Five Power, and the Federal Balance

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

Judicial Activism and Conservative Politics

Journal Article University of Colorado Law Review · 2002 Link to item Cite

Protecting Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales from American Federalism

Journal Article N.Y.U. Law Review · 2002 Link to item Cite

Sorting Out the Debate Over Customary International Law

Journal Article Virginia Journal of International Law · 2002 Link to item Cite

Europe's Constitutional Convention: Will The European Union Embrace Federalism?

Other Findlaw's Writ · 2002 Cite

Federalism and the Double Standard of Judicial Review

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2001 Link to item Cite

State Accountability for Violations of Intellectual Property Rights: How To ‘Fix’ Florida Prepaid (And How Not To)

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Dual Federalism, Concurrent Jurisdiction, and the Foreign Affairs Exception

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Two Cheers for Process Federalism

Journal Article Villlanova Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Who's Afraid of the Twelfth Amendment?

Journal Article Florida State University Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

The Balance Of Federalism In Unbalanced Times: Should The Supreme Court Reconsider Its Federalism Precedents In Light Of The War On Terrorism?

Other Findlaw's Writ · 2001 Cite

Constitutional Avoidance, Resistance Norms, and the Preservation of Judicial Review

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

'Alden v. Maine' and the Jurisprudence of Structure

Journal Article William and Mary Law review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Hercules, Herbert, and Amar: The Trouble with Intratextualism

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Preemption at Sea

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 1999 Link to item Cite

State Sovereign Immunity and the Future of Federalism

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Last Brooding Omnipresence: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and the Unconstitutionality of Preemptive Federal Maritime Law

Journal Article Saint Louis University Law Journal · 1999 Link to item Cite

The Virtues of Presidential Weakness: A Comment on Fitts

Journal Article Saint Louis University Law Journal · 1999 Link to item Cite

Rediscovering Conservatism: Burkean Political Theory & Constitutional Interpretation

Journal Article North Carolina Law Review · 1994 Link to item Cite

The Supreme Court, 1991 Term - Leading Cases

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 1992 Link to item Cite

Recent Developments: Regulation of Racist Speech: In re Welfare of R.A.V.

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy · 1991 Link to item Cite