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Publications from 2022

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Appealable TROs

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Concrete Reliance on Stare Decisis in a Post-Dobbs World, Michael Gentithes,14 ConLawNOW 1 (2022)

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Exigencies, Not Exceptions: How to Return Warrant Exceptions to Their Roots, Michael Gentithes, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 2022

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Suspect Classifications, Immutability, and Moral Responsibility, Michael Gentithes, 13 ConLawNOW 52 (2022)

Publications from 2021

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Rulifying Reasonable Expectations: Why Judicial Tests, Not Originalism, Create a More Determinate Fourth Amendment, Michael Gentithes, 59 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2021)

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Reclaiming the Long History of the "Irrelevant" Nineteenth Amendment for Gender Equality, Tracy Thomas, 105 Minnesota Law Review 101 (2021)

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The Jurisprudence of the First Woman Judge, Florence Allen: Challenging the Myth of Women Judging Differently, Tracy Thomas, 27 William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice (2021)

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The Long History of Feminist Legal Theory, Tracy Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and the Law in the United States (2023)

Publications from 2020

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App Permissions and the Third-Party Doctrine, Michael Gentithes, 59 Washburn L. J. 35 (2020)

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Felony Disenfranchisement & the Nineteenth Amendment, Michael Gentithes, 53 Akron L. Rev. 431 (2020)

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Gobbledygook: Political Questions, Manageability, & Partisan Gerrymandering, Michael Gentithes, 105 Iowa Law Review 1081 (2020)

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Janus-Faced Judging: How the Supreme Court is Radically Weakening Stare Decisis, Michael Gentithes, 62 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 83 (2020)

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Pandemic Surveillance - The New Predictive Policing, Michael Gentithes, 2 ConLawNOW 57 (2020)

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Suspicionless Witness Stops: The New Racial Profiling, Michael Gentithes, 55 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 491 (2020)

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Book Review, Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation, Tracy Thomas, 106 J. Legal History 1139 (2020)

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From Nineteenth Amendment to ERA: Constitutional Amendments for Women's Equality, Tracy Thomas, ABA Insights Mag. (Jan. 20, 2020)

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More Than the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment as Proxy for Gender Equality, Tracy Thomas, 15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 349 (2020)

Publications from 2019

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The End of Miller's Time: How Sensitivity Can Categorize Third-Party Data After Carpenter, Michael Gentithes, 53 Georgia Law Review 1039 (2019)

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Leveling Down Gender Equality, Tracy Thomas, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 42 (2018)

Publications from 2018

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After Suffrage Comes Equal Rights? ERA as the Next Logical Step, Tracy Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau, "100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism" (Holly McCammon & Lee Ann Banaszak eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press 2018)

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After Suffrage Comes Equal Rights? ERA as the Next Logical Step, Tracy Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau, 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism" (Holly McCammon & Lee Ann Banaszak eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press 2018)

Publications from 2017

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Breaking the Cycle: Countering Voter Initiatives and the Underrepresentation of Racial Minorities in the Political Process, Kristen Barnes, 12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, (2017)

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Legal Resources on the Trump Immigration Ban

Publications from 2016

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, Tracy Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau, NYU Press, April 2011

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Reconsidering the Remedy of Gender Quotas, Tracy Thomas, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Online (2016)

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Reviewing Manhart, Tracy Thomas, Rewritten Feminist Judgment in Dep't of Power v. Manhart, in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN OPINIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (Kathryn Stanchi, Linda Berger & Bridget Crawford, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2016)

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The Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-Century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tracy Thomas, 7 ConLawNOW 1 (2016)

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The "Radical Conscience" of Nineteenth-Century Feminism, Tracy Thomas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, Chapter One, New York University Press (2016)

Publications from 2015

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Back to Class: Lessons from the Roberts Court Class Action Jurisprudence, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 48 Akron Law Review 697 (2015)

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"Just a Bit Outside!": Proportionality in Federal Discovery and the Institutional Capacity of the Federal Courts, Bernadette Bollas Genetin

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The Supreme Court's New Approach to Personal Jurisdiction, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 68 SMU L. Rev. 107 (2015)

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The Supreme Court's New Approach to Personal Jurisdiction, Bernadette Bollas Genetin

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Tying the Knot with a Surname? The Constitutionality of Japan's Law Requiring a Same Marital Name, Koji Higashikawa, 7 ConLawNOW 51, (2015)

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SCOTUS Summary: Separation of Powers in Zivotofsky v. Kerry

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SCOTUS Summary: The Supreme Court's Decision in King v. Burwell on Healthcare

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Tradition, Policy and the Establishment Clause: Justice Kennedy's Opinion in Town of Greece v. Galloway, Wilson Huhn, Town of Greece v. Galloway, 6 ConLawNOW 11 (2015)

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An Introduction to the Women in Law Symposium, Tracy Thomas, 47 Akron Law Review 891 (2015)

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Forward, Women and the Law, Tracy Thomas, Women and the Law (West 2012)

Publications from 2014

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THE INFLUENCE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE SUPREME COURT’S INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY, Wilson Huhn

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Teaching Women's Legal History, Tracy Thomas, TEACHING LEGAL HISTORY: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Robert Jarvis ed., Wildy, Simmonds, & Hill 2014)

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Same-Sex Divorce, Tracy A. Thomas

Publications from 2013

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Realism Over Formalism and the Presumption of Constitutionality: Chief Justice Roberts’ Opinion Upholding the Individual Mandate, Wilson Huhn

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Slaves to Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn

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Supreme Court Update: 2012-2013 Term (Civil Cases in Constitutional Law), Wilson Huhn

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Supreme Court Review: Legalistic Argle-Bargle, Molly McBurney, Kristen Barnes, Bernadette Genetin, Wilson Huhn, William Jordan, Marge Koosed, Rich Lavoie, Brant Lee, Elizabeth Reilly, Bill Rich, Kalyani Robbins, Jeff Samuels, Tracy Thomas, and Katharine Van Tassel

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Teaching Remedies as Problem-Solving: Keeping it Real, Tracy Thomas, 57 St. Louis University Law Journal 673 (2013)

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Back to the Future of Abortion Regulation in the First Term, Tracy A. Thomas

Publications from 2012

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Riding Into the Sunset in a "Post-Racial" World: Lessons in Equal Educational Opportunity and College Admissions Schemes in France and the United States, Kristen Barnes, 22 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review (2012)

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Excerpts from Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius, Wilson Huhn

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Same-Sex Marriage Litigation Update - September 17, 2012, Wilson Huhn

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The 2011-2012 Supreme Court Term: Decisions in Constitutional Law, Wilson Huhn

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The Civil Rights Movement and the Constitution, Wilson Huhn

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The Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wilson Huhn

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The Decision of the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the PPACA, Wilson Huhn

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THE FUTURE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, Wilson Huhn

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THE FUTURE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AS A RESULT OF THE REELECTION OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Wilson Huhn

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The Growing Acceptance and Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in America Constitutes a Victory for Reality-Based Thinking, Wilson Huhn

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Book Review, Barbara Babcock's Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz

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Forward: "War on Women" in Women and the Law

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Switching to Prophylactic Injunctions, Tracy Thomas, Texas Law Review

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The Struggle for Gender Equality in the Northern District of Ohio, Tracy Thomas, The Struggle for Gender Equality in the Northern District of Ohio in Justice on the shores of Lake Erie: A History of the Northern District of Ohio (Roberta Alexander & Paul Finkelman, eds. 2012)

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Misappropriating Women's History in the Law and Politics of Abortion, Tracy A. Thomas

Publications from 2011

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McDonald v. Chicago, Self-Defense, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Future, Richard Aynes

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Electing our Judges and Judicial Independence: the Supreme Court's "Triple Whammy", Martin Belsky

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Reassessing the Avoidance Canon in Erie Cases, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 44 Akron Law Review 1067 (2011)

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A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery, Wilson Huhn

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Constantly Approximating Popular Sovereignty: Seven Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Law, Wilson Huhn

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Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, Wilson Huhn

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Biological Metaphors for Whiteness: Beyond Merit and Malice, Brant T. Lee

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Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: The Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment, Elizabeth Reilly

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Book Review

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender, Tracy A. Thomas

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Law, History, and Feminism, Tracy A. Thomas

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Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law

Publications from 2010

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Enforcing the Bill of Rights Against the States: The History and the Future, Richard Aynes

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Kate Chase, the "Sphere of Women's Work," and Her Influence Upon Her Father's Dissent in Bradwell v. Illinois, Richard Aynes

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McDonald v. Chicago, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Right to Bear Arms and the Right of Self-Defense, Richard L. Aynes

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Summary Judgment and the Influence of Federal Rulemaking

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Sex v. Race, Again, Tracy A. Thomas

Publications from 2009

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39th Congress (1865-1867) and the 14th Amendment: Some Preliminary Perspectives, Richard Aynes

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Ink Blot or Not: the Meaning of Privileges And/Or Immunities, Richard Aynes

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140th Anniversary Symposium: Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship and the Reconstruction-Era Black Public Sphere, 42 Akron Law Review 1245 (2009)

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Cross Burning a Hate Speech Under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Wilson Huhn

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Legacy of Slaughterhouse. Bradwell, and Cruikshank in Constitutional Interpretation, Wilson Huhn

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Ten Questions on Gay Rights and Freedom of Religion, Wilson Huhn

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Reforming Eyewitness Identification Law and Practices to Protect the Innocent, Margery Koosed

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Empathy and Pragmatism in the Choice of Constitutional Norms for Religious Land Use Disputes, Elizabeth Reilly

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Infinite Hope-- Introduction to the Symposium: the 140th Anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment, Elizabeth Reilly

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The Union as it Wasn't and the Constitution as it Isn't: Section Five and Altering the Balance of Power, Elizabeth Reilly

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Remedies: Public and Private

Publications from 2008

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Self-Defense, the 2nd Amendment, and the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Aynes

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Waterboarding is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn

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Book Review of Thomas J. Davis, Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents, Brant T. Lee

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eBay RX, Tracy Thomas, 2 Akron Intellectual Property Journal 187 (2008)

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Women's Suffrage

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The New Face of Women's Legal History: An Introduction to the Symposium, Tracy A. Thomas

Publications from 2007

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The Religion Clauses and the “Really New” Federalism, Martin H. Belsky

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Congress Has the Power to Enforce the Bill of Rights Against the Federal Government: Therefore FISA is Constitutional and the President's Terrorist Surveillance Program is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn

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In Defense of the Roosevelt Court, Wilson R. Huhn

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The Devil in the Details: On Intelligent Design, Racial Conspiracy Theories, and the Theology of Whiteness, Brant T. Lee