Con Law Center Articles and Publications
Publications from 2026
Affirmatively Misled: The Commutation Instruction That Distorted Louisiana’s Death Penalty, G. Ben Cohen
Just Prosecution, G. Ben Cohen
Activist Judicial Restraints, Michael Gentithes
We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots, Jess Miers
Human Problems: It’s Not Always the Technology’s Fault, Jess Miers, Kevin Frazier, Brian L. Frye, and Michael P. Goodyear
Book Review: Jessica Lake, Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law, Tracy A. Thomas
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline, Tracy A. Thomas
The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen, Tracy A. Thomas
Women in the Courtroom as Judges, Lawyers, and Jurors, Tracy A. Thomas
Publications from 2025
Racializing Three Strikes, G. Ben Cohen, Justin D. Levinson, and Koichi Hioki
Book Review: We're All Traditionalists Now (Most of the Time), Richard H. Fallon, Jr., The Changing Constitution: Constitutional Law in the Trump-Era Supreme Court, Michael Gentithes
Harvesting the Grand Jury’s “Lay Expertise” in Officer-Involved Shootings, Michael Gentithes
The Reality of the Good Faith Exception, Michael Gentithes and Matthew Tokson
Publications from 2024
The Promise of Progressive Prosecution, G Ben Cohen
Racial Bias, Accomplice Liability, and The Felony Murder Rule: A National Empirical Study, G. Ben Cohen, Justin D. Levinson, and Koichi Hioki
Threading the Needle in Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering Cases, Michael Gentithes
Publications from 2023
Appealable TROs: Restoring Irreparable Harm as the Touchstone for Instant Interlocutory Appeal of Temporary Restraining Orders, Bernadette Bollas Genetin
A Manageable Constitution, Michael Gentithes
Exigencies, Not Exceptions: How to Return Warrant Exceptions to Their Roots, Michael Gentithes
Protecting Abortion as State Health Care Freedom of Choice, Tracy Thomas
The Long History of Feminist Legal Theory, Tracy Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and the Law in the United States (2023)
Justice Ginsburg’s Restrained Theory of Remedial Equity, Tracy A. Thomas
Remedies: Public and Private, Tracy A. Thomas, David I. Levine, and David J. Jung
Publications from 2022
Concrete Reliance on Stare Decisis in a Post-Dobbs World, Michael Gentithes,14 ConLawNOW 1 (2022)
Exigencies, Not Exceptions: How to Return Warrant Exceptions to Their Roots, Michael Gentithes, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 2022
Security in the Digital Age, Michael Gentithes
Suspect Classifications, Immutability, and Moral Responsibility, Michael Gentithes, 13 ConLawNOW 52 (2022)
Publications from 2021
Deadly “Toxins”: A National Empirical Study of Racial Bias and Future Dangerousness Determinations, G. Ben Cohen, Justin D. Levinson, and Koichi Hioki
Book Review, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, Michael Gentithes
Rhetoric & Nostalgia in Criminal Justice Reform (symposium), Michael Gentithes
Rulifying Reasonable Expectations: Why Judicial Tests, Not Originalism, Create a More Determinate Fourth Amendment, Michael Gentithes, 59 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2021)
Reclaiming the Long History of the "Irrelevant" Nineteenth Amendment for Gender Equality, Tracy Thomas, 105 Minnesota Law Review 101 (2021)
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)
Publications from 2020
App Permissions and the Third-Party Doctrine, Michael Gentithes, 59 Washburn L. J. 35 (2020)
Felony Disenfranchisement & the Nineteenth Amendment, Michael Gentithes, 53 Akron L. Rev. 431 (2020)
Gobbledygook: Political Questions, Manageability, & Partisan Gerrymandering, Michael Gentithes, 105 Iowa Law Review 1081 (2020)
Janus-Faced Judging: How the Supreme Court is Radically Weakening Stare Decisis, Michael Gentithes, 62 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 83 (2020)
Pandemic Surveillance - The New Predictive Policing, Michael Gentithes, 2 ConLawNOW 57 (2020)
Suspicionless Witness Stops: The New Racial Profiling, Michael Gentithes, 55 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 491 (2020)
Book Review, Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation, Tracy Thomas, 106 J. Legal History 1139 (2020)
From Nineteenth Amendment to ERA: Constitutional Amendments for Women's Equality, Tracy Thomas, ABA Insights Mag. (Jan. 20, 2020)
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)
Rewritten Feminist Judgment in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, in Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, Tracy A. Thomas
Women and the Law, Tracy A. Thomas
Publications from 2019
The End of Miller's Time: How Sensitivity Can Categorize Third-Party Data After Carpenter, Michael Gentithes, 53 Georgia Law Review 1039 (2019)
Leveling Down Gender Equality, Tracy Thomas, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 42 (2018)
Publications from 2018
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)
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
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)
Publications from 2016
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law
Reconsidering the Remedy of Gender Quotas, Tracy Thomas, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Online (2016)
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)
The Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-Century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tracy Thomas, 7 ConLawNOW 1 (2016)
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
Back to Class: Lessons from the Roberts Court Class Action Jurisprudence, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 48 Akron Law Review 697 (2015)
"Just a Bit Outside!": Proportionality in Federal Discovery and the Institutional Capacity of the Federal Courts, Bernadette Bollas Genetin
The Supreme Court's New Approach to Personal Jurisdiction, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 68 SMU L. Rev. 107 (2015)
The Supreme Court's New Approach to Personal Jurisdiction, Bernadette Bollas Genetin
Tying the Knot with a Surname? The Constitutionality of Japan's Law Requiring a Same Marital Name, Koji Higashikawa, 7 ConLawNOW 51, (2015)
SCOTUS Summary: Separation of Powers in Zivotofsky v. Kerry
SCOTUS Summary: The Supreme Court's Decision in King v. Burwell on Healthcare
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)
An Introduction to the Women in Law Symposium, Tracy Thomas, 47 Akron Law Review 891 (2015)
Forward, Women and the Law, Tracy Thomas, Women and the Law (West 2012)
Publications from 2014
Teaching Women's Legal History, Tracy Thomas, TEACHING LEGAL HISTORY: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Robert Jarvis ed., Wildy, Simmonds, & Hill 2014)
Same-Sex Divorce, Tracy A. Thomas
Publications from 2013
Slaves to Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn
Supreme Court Update: 2012-2013 Term (Civil Cases in Constitutional Law), Wilson Huhn
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
Teaching Remedies as Problem-Solving: Keeping it Real, Tracy Thomas, 57 St. Louis University Law Journal 673 (2013)
Back to the Future of Abortion Regulation in the First Term, Tracy A. Thomas
Publications from 2012
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)
Excerpts from Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius, Wilson Huhn
Same-Sex Marriage Litigation Update - September 17, 2012, Wilson Huhn
The 2011-2012 Supreme Court Term: Decisions in Constitutional Law, Wilson Huhn
The Civil Rights Movement and the Constitution, Wilson Huhn
The Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wilson Huhn
The Decision of the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the PPACA, Wilson Huhn
THE FUTURE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, Wilson Huhn
The Future Interpretation of the Constitution as a Result of the Re-election of President Barack Obama, Wilson Huhn
Book Review, Barbara Babcock's Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz
Forward: "War on Women" in Women and the Law
Switching to Prophylactic Injunctions, Tracy Thomas, Texas Law Review
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)
Misappropriating Women's History in the Law and Politics of Abortion, Tracy A. Thomas
Publications from 2011
McDonald v. Chicago, Self-Defense, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Future, Richard Aynes
Electing our Judges and Judicial Independence: the Supreme Court's "Triple Whammy", Martin Belsky
Reassessing the Avoidance Canon in Erie Cases, Bernadette Bollas Genetin, 44 Akron Law Review 1067 (2011)
A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery, Wilson Huhn
Constantly Approximating Popular Sovereignty: Seven Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Law, Wilson Huhn
Biological Metaphors for Whiteness: Beyond Merit and Malice, Brant T. Lee
Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: The Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment, Elizabeth Reilly
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender, Tracy A. Thomas
Law, History, and Feminism, Tracy A. Thomas
Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law
Publications from 2010
Enforcing the Bill of Rights Against the States: The History and the Future, Richard Aynes