Christopher W. Schmidt

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Professor

565 W. Adams St.

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

United States

American Bar Foundation

Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

23

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Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

Divided by Law: The Sit-Ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement

33 Law and History Review 93 (2015), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-45
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2015
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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sit-ins, civil rights, civil rights movement, legal history, constitutional law, state action doctrine, NAACP, civil rights lawyers

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The Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Divide

Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Vol. 12, 2016, pp. 1-41., Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-11
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 May 2015 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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civil rights, civil liberties, constitutional law, legal history, human rights, legal categories

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Defending the Right to Discriminate: The Libertarian Challenge to the Civil Rights Movement

Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History, Sally Hadden and Patricia Minter eds. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-11
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2013
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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legal history, civil rights movement, discrimination, libertarianism, segregation, popular constitutionalism, southern history

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The Sit-Ins and the State Action Doctrine

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 18, 2010
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Civil Rights, Sit-ins, Civil Rights Movement, State Action, Constitutional History

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Brown and the Colorblind Constitution

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Dec 2008
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Brown v. Board of Education, Parents Involved, School Segregation, Supreme Court, Civil Rights

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Civil Rights: An American History—Book Introduction

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Feb 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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civil rights, legal history, Reconstruction, civil rights movement, civil liberties, social rights, human rights, civil rights laws

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Beyond the Opinion: Supreme Court Justices and Extrajudicial Speech

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 88, p. 487, 2013, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-22
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2014
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Supreme Court, Justices, extrajudicial activities, extrajudicial speech, press, legal history, Hugo Black, written opinion, public discourse, law and society

8.

Explaining the Baseball Revolution

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 45, p. 1471, 2013, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-03
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2014
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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baseball, legal history, legal mobilization, law and society, sports law, labor law, Flood v. Kuhn, free agency, reserve clause, sociolegal

9.

Why Broccoli? Limiting Principles and Popular Constitutionalism in the Health Care Case

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 61, p. 66, 2013, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-15
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 16 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2013
Mark D. Rosen and Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago-Kent College of Law
Downloads 157 (365,174)

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Constitutional Law, Affordable Care Act, NFIB, Popular Constitutionalism, Supreme Court, Limiting Principles, Broccoli, Hypotheticals, Localist Reasoning

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Oral Dissenting on the Supreme Court

William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 19, p. 75, 2010
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
Carolyn Shapiro and Christopher W. Schmidt
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Supreme Court, dissent, oral dissent, media, empirical

11.

The Tea Party and the Constitution

39 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 193 (2011), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 15 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Tea Party, Constitution, Constitutional Law, popular constitutionalism, libertarianism, mobilization, extrajudicial, law and society

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'Freedom Comes Only from the Law': The Debate Over Law's Capacity and the Making of Brown v. Board of Education

Utah Law Review, No. 4, 2008
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 10 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights, legal history

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Book Review: Social Movements, Legal Change, and the Challenges of Writing Legal History

65 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 155 (2012), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-36
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2021
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Legal History, Civil Rights Movement, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent, Atlanta, social activism, legal change, writing legal history

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Section 5's Forgotten Years: Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment Before Katzenbach v. Morgan

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 113, 2018, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 13 Feb 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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constitutional law, legal history, Fourteenth Amendment, enforcement power, Section 5, Katzenbach v. Morgan, Supreme Court, Congress, legislative constitutionalism

15.

Brown, History, and the Fourteenth Amendment

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, 2022
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jun 2022
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Brown v. Board of Education, Reconstruction, Fourteenth Amendment, Originalism, Historians

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On Doctrinal Confusion: The Case of the State Action Doctrine

2016 Brigham Young University Law Review 575
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Mar 2017
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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state action, doctrinal confusion, legal history, Fourteenth Amendment, doctrine

17.

Litigating Against the Civil Rights Movement

86 University of Colorado Law Review 1173 (2015)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Mar 2017
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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litigation, segregation, civil rights movement, legal history, legal mobilization

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Popular Constitutionalism on the Right: Lessons from the Tea Party

88 Denver University Law Review 523 (2011), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Feb 2013
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Constitutional Law, popular constitutionalism, Constitution, Tea Party, right-wing, mobilization

19.

Conceptions of Law in the Civil Rights Movement

UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 1, pp. 641, 2011, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Feb 2013
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Constitutional Law, legal history, civil rights, Jim Crow, Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Bickel, law and society

20.

Originalism and Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment

74 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 33 (2018).
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5, originalism, Boerne, extrajudicial constitutionalism

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The Challenge of Supreme Court Biography: The Case of Chief Justice Rehnquist

29 Constitutional Commentary 271 (2014)., Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-19
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 08 May 2015
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Rehnquist, Chief Justice, biography, Supreme Court, legal history

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Thirteenth Amendment Echoes in Fourteenth Amendment Doctrine

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 73, 2022
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 May 2022
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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The Forgotten Issue? The Supreme Court and the 2016 Presidential Campaign

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 93, 2018
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Downloads 39 (821,609)

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Supreme Court, Presidential Campaigns, Appointments, Trump, Clinton