“Some Realism About Originalism”
William J. Novak
Michigan Law Review
2025
“Conclusion: The State and Local-Legal Governance in the Early American Republic”
William J. Novak
Journal of the Early Republic
2024
2023
“Introduction: Democracy and the American Antimonopoly Tradition”
Daniel A. Crane William J. Novak
Antimonopoly and American Democracy
2023
Antimonopoly and American Democracy
2023
“Une Histoire Pragmatique du Politique”
William J. Novak
Histoire @ Politique
2023
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
2022
“Chapter Eight - Technology and the Law: The Automobile (by James Willard Hurst)”
William J. Novak- Law and Technology
Wisconsin Law Review
2022
“Willard Hurst, Technological Changes, and the Transformation of American Public Law”
William J. Novak- Law and Technology
Wisconsin Law Review Forward
2022
“Possibilidades de uma História Pragmática do Político”
William J. Novak
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UERJ
2022
2022
“A Modern Democratic State, If We Can Keep It: Response to Commentators in the Symposium on New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State”
William J. Novak- Administrative Law
Yale Journal on Regulation Notice and Comment
2022
“Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Origins of Modern American Social Police”
William J. Novak- Criminal Law
- Law and Social Sciences
The Intimate State: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History
2021
“The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power”
William J. Novak- Constitutional Law
States of Exception in American History
2020
“Epilogue: The Need for a New and Critical Democracy”
William J. Novak- Legal Writing and Research
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
The Tocqueville Review
2020
“Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of Business”
William J. Novak- Legal History
Business History Review
2019
“The Progressive Idea of Democratic Administration”
William J. Novak- Constitutional Law
- Legal History
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
2019
“Social Freedom, Democracy and the Political: Three Reflections on Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism”
William J. Novak
Tocqueville Review
2019
State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood
2018
“Putting the ‘Public’ in Public Administration: The Rise of the Public Utility Idea”
William J. Novak
Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw
2017
“The Continental Idea of the State”
William J. Novak
Max Planck Handbooks of Public Law in Europe, Volume I: State and Administration
2017
“Democratic States of Unexception: Towards a New Genealogy of the American Political”
William J. Novak
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
2017
“The Administrative State in America”
William J. Novak
The Administrative State
2017
“The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation”
William J. Novak
Corporations and American Democracy
2017
Corporations and American Democracy
William J. Novak2017
“Corporations and American Democracy: An Introduction”
William J. Novak
Corporations and American Democracy
2017
Boundaries of the State in U.S. History
William J. Novak2015
“Beyond Stateless Democracy”
William J. Novak
Tocqueville Review
2015
“Beyond Max Weber: The Need for a Democratic (Not Aristocratic) Theory of the Modern State”
William J. Novak
Tocqueville Review
2015
“The Concept of the State in American History”
William J. Novak
Boundaries of the State in U.S. History
2015
“A Revisionist History of Regulatory Capture”
William J. Novak
Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It
2013
“Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France”
William J. Novak- Race and the Law
- Legal History
Journal of the Civil War Era
2013
“Making the Modern American Legislative State”
William J. Novak
Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
2012
“Toward a History of the Democratic State”
William J. Novak
Tocqueville Review
2012
Perspectives on History
2011
History of European Ideas
2011
“Law and the Social Control of American Capitalism”
William J. Novak- Legal History
Emory Law Journal
2010
“Constitutional Theology: The Revival of Whig History in American Public Law”
William J. Novak- Constitutional Law
- Legal History
Michigan State Law Review
2010
“AHR Exchange: Long Live the Myth of the Weak State? A Response to Adams, Gerstle, and Witt”
William J. Novak
American Historical Review
2010
“Public-Private Governance: A Historical Introduction”
William J. Novak
Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy
2009
Polity
2008
“Police Power and the Hidden Transformation of the American State”
William J. Novak- Criminal Law
- Legal History
Police and the Liberal State
2008
“The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State”
William J. Novak
American Historical Review
2008
“The American Law of Association: The Legal-Political Construction of Civil Society”
William J. Novak
Analyzing Law’s Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society
2008
Review of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager David A. Moss
William J. Novak
Business History Review
2003
“The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America”
William J. Novak- Race and the Law
- Legal History
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History
2003
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History
William J. Novak- Legal History
2003
“The Pluralist State: The Convergence of Public and Private Power in America”
William J. Novak
American Public Life and the Historical Imagination
2003