“Memory, Resistance, and Doubt”

Richard Primus
  • Legal History
William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
2025

“Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of Rights”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Journal of American Constitutional History
2024

“Reframing Article I, Section 8”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Fordham Law Review
2021

“Suspect Spheres, Not Enumerated Powers: A Guide for Leaving the Lamppost”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review
2021

“Herein of ‘Herein Granted’: Why Article I’s Vesting Clause Does Not Support the Doctrine of Enumerated Powers”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Constitutional Commentary
2020

“The Support-or-Advocacy Clauses”

Richard Primus
  • Civil Rights
Fordham Law Review
2020

“Segregation in the Galleries: A Reconsideration”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review Online
2020

“The Most Revealing Word in the United States Reports”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Green Bag
2019

“ ‘The Essential Characteristic’: Enumerated Powers and the Bank of the United States”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review
2018

“The Republic in Long-Term Perspective”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review Online
2018

“Second Redemption, Third Reconstruction”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
California Law Review
2018

“Family Separation and the Triumph of Cruelty”

Richard Primus
  • Children and the Law
Foreign Affairs
2018

“The Gibbons Fallacy”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
2017

“The Cost of the Text”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Cornell Law Review
2017

“The Constitutional Constant”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Cornell Law Review
2017

“Why Enumeration Matters”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review
2016

“Is Theocracy Our Politics? Thoughts on William Baude’s ‘Is Originalism Our Law?’ ”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Columbia Law Review Sidebar
2016

“The Limits of Enumeration”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Yale Law Journal
2014

“Unbundling Constitutionality”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
University of Chicago Law Review
2013

“How the Gun-Free School Zones Act Saved the Individual Mandate”

Richard Primus
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
2012

“Public Consensus as Constitutional Authority”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
George Washington Law Review
2010

“The Future of Disparate Impact”

Richard Primus
Michigan Law Review
2010

“Constitutional Expectations”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Michigan Law Review
2010

“The Functions of Ethical Originalism”

Richard Primus
Texas Law Review See Also
2010

“Limits of Interpretivism”

Richard Primus
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
2009

“When Should Original Meanings Matter?”

Richard Primus
Michigan Law Review
2008

“Double-Consciousness in Constitutional Adjudication”

Richard Primus
Review of Constitutional Studies / Revue d’études constitutionnelles
2007

“Judicial Power and Mobilizable History”

Richard Primus
Maryland Law Review
2006

“The Riddle of Hiram Revels”

Richard Primus
Harvard Law Review
2006

“Bolling Alone”

Richard Primus
Columbia Law Review
2004

“Equal Protection and Disparate Impact: Round Three”

Richard Primus
Harvard Law Review
2003

“Canon, Anti-Canon, and Judicial Dissent”

Richard Primus
Duke Law Journal
1998

“When Democracy is Not Self-Government: Toward a Defense of the Unanimity Rule for Criminal Juries”

Richard Primus
Cardozo Law Review
1997

“A Brooding Omnipresence: Totalitarianism in Postwar Constitutional Thought”

Richard Primus
  • Constitutional Law
Yale Law Journal
1996