“Epilogue: The Need for a New and Critical Democracy”

  • Legal Writing and Research
  • Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
The Tocqueville Review
2020

“The Progressive Idea of Democratic Administration”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
2019

“Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of Business”

  • Legal History
Business History Review
2019

“Response: The People’s Welfare Redux”

American Journal of Legal History
2017

“Beyond Max Weber: The Need for a Democratic (Not Aristocratic) Theory of the Modern State”

Tocqueville Review
2015

“Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France”

Journal of the Civil War Era
2013

“Toward a History of the Democratic State”

Tocqueville Review
2012

“Political History after the Cultural Turn”

  • Legal History
Perspectives on History
2011

“Legal Realism and Human Rights”

  • Human Rights
History of European Ideas
2011

“AHR Exchange: Long Live the Myth of the Weak State? A Response to Adams, Gerstle, and Witt”

American Historical Review
2010

“Constitutional Theology: The Revival of Whig History in American Public Law”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Michigan State Law Review
2010

“The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State”

American Historical Review
2008

“A State of Legislatures”

  • Legal History
Polity
2008

“The Not-So-Strange-Birth of the Modern American State: A Comment on James A. Henretta’s ‘Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America’ ”

  • Legal History
Law and History Review
2006

“Private Wealth and Public Health: A Critique of Richard Epstein’s Defense of the ‘Old’ Public Health”

  • Health Law
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
2003

“The American Law of Association: The Legal-Political Construction of Civil Society”

Studies in American Political Development
2001

“Law, Capitalism, and the Liberal State: The Historical Sociology of James Willard Hurst”

Law and History Review
2000

“Common Regulation: Legal Origins of State Power in America”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Hastings Law Journal
1994

“Public Economy and the Well-Ordered Market: Law and Economic Regulation in 19th-Century America”

  • Legal History
Law and Social Inquiry
1993