Kurt Lash

University of Richmond School of Law

Professor of Law

28 Westhampton Way

Richmond, VA 23173

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

31

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8

Scholarly Papers (31)

1.

The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 47, 2024
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 31 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2024
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 2,827 (8,624)

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Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, Election Law, Originalism

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The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment

Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 597, 2004
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 01 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 1,622 (20,879)

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The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part I: 'Privileges and Immunities' as an Antebellum Term of Art

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, p. 1242, 2010
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 1,226 (31,694)

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The Lost Jurisprudence of the Ninth Amendment

Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 597, 2005
Number of pages: 119 Posted: 05 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 1,171 (33,847)

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A Textual-Historical Theory of the Ninth Amendment

Stanford Law Review, 2007, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2007-17
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Dec 2006
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 861 (52,227)

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The Constitutional Convention of 1937: The Original Meaning of the New Jurisprudential Deal

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 22 Mar 2001
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 855 (52,730)
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The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part II: John Bingham and the Second Draft of the Fourteenth Amendment

99 Georgetown Law Journal 329 (2011)
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 28 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 790 (58,637)
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The Original Meaning of an Omission: The Tenth Amendment, Popular Sovereignty and 'Expressly' Delegated Power

83 Notre Dame Law Review 101 (2008)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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James Madison's Celebrated Report of 1800: The Transformation of the Tenth Amendment

George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2005-30
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Nov 2005
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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Originalism, Popular Sovereignty and Reverse Stare Decisis

93 Virginia Law Review 1437 (2007)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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Roe and the Original Meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 20, 2023
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 May 2022 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 528 (98,099)

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Thirteenth Amendment, abortion, originalism, Roe v. Wade

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The Inescapable Federalism of the Ninth Amendment

Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2007-17, Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 21 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2007
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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'Resolution VI': National Authority to Resolve Collective Action Problems Under Article 1, Section 8

87 Notre Dame L. Rev. (June 2012), Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 10-40
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 453 (118,037)

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Resolution VI, Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan

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The Second Adoption of the Establishment Clause: The Rise of the Non-Establishment Principle

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1085, 1995, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-16
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 May 2008
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 443 (121,165)
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Minority Report: John Marshall and the Defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts

68 Ohio State Law Journal 435 (2007)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 08 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash and Alicia Harrison
University of Richmond School of Law and Loyola Law School
Downloads 426 (126,816)

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Re-Speaking the Bill of Rights: A New Doctrine of Incorporation

Brigham Young University Law Review, 2022
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 418 (129,624)

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Fourteenth Amendment, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Law, Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Theory

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Becoming the Bill of Rights: The 1791 Amendments from the Founding to the Fourteenth Amendment

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 110, 2024
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 04 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 374 (147,086)

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Bill of Rights, Originalism, Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction, Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, Constitutional Interpretation

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Federalism, Freedom, and the Founders' View of Retained Rights

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, 2008, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-1
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jan 2008
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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The Constitutional Referendum of 1866: Andrew Johnson and the Original Meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 223 (249,611)

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The Constitutional Referendum of 1866: Andrew Johnson and the Original Meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-02
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 13 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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Leaving the Chisholm Trail: The Eleventh Amendment and the Background Principle of Strict Construction

50 William & Mary Law Review 1577 (2009)
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 18 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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21.

The State Citizenship Clause

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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The Second Adoption of the Free Exercise Clause: Religious Exemptions Under the Fourteenth Amendment

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, 1994, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-10
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Apr 2008
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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The Due Process Understanding of the 1866 Civil Rights Act

University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-1
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 10 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2016
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 273 (206,298)

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The Enumerated Rights Reading of the Privileges or Immunities Clause: A Response to Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick's 'The Privileges or Immunities Clause, Abridged: A Critique of Kurt Lash on the Fourteenth Amendment'

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 591, 2019
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 15 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 270 (207,814)

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The Federalist and the Fourteenth Amendment—Publius in Antebellum Public Debate, 1788–1860

Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 6, 2023
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Aug 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 263 (213,292)

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Fourteenth Amendment, originalism, The Federalist Papers, Publius, Constitutional Law, Reconstruction, federalism

26.

Beyond Incorporation

Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2009-1
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Jan 2009
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 201 (275,841)

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Originalism All the Way Down?

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 30, p. 149, 2014, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-11
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
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reconstruction, fourteenth amendment, thirteenth amendment, fifteenth amendment, civil rights, constitutional law, constitutional history, civil war

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Enforcing the Rights of Due Process: The Original Relationship Between the Fourteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 106, No. 1389, 2018
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 29 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 188 (293,078)
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The Cost of Judicial Error: Stare Decisis and the Role of Normative Theory

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-16
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Nov 2013
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 162 (333,835)

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stare decisis, normative theory

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The Sum of All Delegated Power: A Response to Richard Primus, The Limits of Enumeration

The Yale Law Journal Forum, December 22, 2014
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Dec 2014
Kurt Lash
University of Richmond School of Law
Downloads 101 (479,929)

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