Neal Devins

William & Mary Law School

Goodrich Professor of Law, Professor of Government, Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law and Director, Election Law Program

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P.O. Box 8795

Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

United States

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Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court

Supreme Court Review vol. 2016
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 May 2014 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum
William & Mary Law School and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Political Science
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Supreme Court, law & psychology, law & politics, law & society

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'Ideology' or 'Situation Sense'? An Experimental Investigation of Motivated Reasoning and Professional Judgment

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 64, 2016, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-26
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 22 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016
Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman, Danieli Evans Peterman, Neal Devins, Eugene Lucci and Katherine Cheng
Yale University - Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale Law School, William & Mary Law School, Government of the State of Ohio - Court of Common Pleas and Cultural Cognition Lab, Yale Law School
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motivated reasoning, judicial decisionmaking, ideology, professional judgment

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The Amicus Machine

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 102
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Alli Orr Larsen and Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School and William & Mary Law School
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amicus, Supreme Court, advocate, brief, Supreme Court bar

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Can We Make the Constitution More Democratic?

Drake Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 971-1000, Summer 2007, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 07-28, Symposium on 'Our Undemocratic Constitution'
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2008
Ilya Somin and Neal Devins
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and William & Mary Law School
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Constitution, democratic, reform, deliberative democracy, political knowledge, political ignorance, constitutional change

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How 'Planned Parenthood v. Casey' (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, p. 1318, 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 9-18
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Sep 2009
Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School
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abortion, state politics, supreme court

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Congress's (Limited) Power to Represent Itself in Court

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 99, (2014 Forthcoming), William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-253
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2014
Tara Leigh Grove and Neal Devins
University of Alabama School of Law and William & Mary Law School
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Congress, separation of powers, House counsel, Senate counsel, duty to defend

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The Indefensible Duty to Defend

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 507, 2012, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-17
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2016
Saikrishna Prakash and Neal Devins
University of Virginia School of Law and William & Mary Law School
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Duty to defend, Duty to execute, DOMA, Obama, Holder, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, Bureaucratic Theory, DOJ independence

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The Vanishing Common Law Judge?

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165 (2017)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Neal Devins and David Klein
William & Mary Law School and Eastern Michigan University
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courts, federal courts, common law, judging, precedent

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Rethinking Judicial Minimalism: Abortion Politics, Party Polarization, and the Consequences of Returning the Constitution to Elected Government

Vanderbilt Law Review (2016), Vol. 69 No. 4
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School
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constitution, abortion, polarization, courts, judicial minimalism

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Fifty States, Fifty Attorneys General, and Fifty Approaches to the Duty to Defend

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 124, 2015
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Neal Devins and Saikrishna Prakash
William & Mary Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Attourneys General, duty to defend, same sex marriage

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Dicta, Schmicta: Theory Versus Practice in Lower Court Decision Making

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 6, 2013
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Apr 2013
David Klein and Neal Devins
Eastern Michigan University and William & Mary Law School
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judicial decision making, precedent, dicta, legal theory, empirical legal studies, lower courts, common law

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Why Congress Does Not Challenge Judicial Supremacy

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 58 2017
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School
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Congress, Supreme Court, polarization, judicial supremacy

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Reverse Advisory Opinions

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 859, 2012
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2016
Neal Devins and Saikrishna Prakash
William & Mary Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Congress and the Constitution

Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington
William & Mary Law School and Princeton University - Department of Political Science

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Congress, constitution outside the courts, judicial review, extrajudicial

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Bearing False Witness: The Clinton Impeachment and the Future of Academic Freedom

University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Posted: 29 Oct 1999
Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School

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The Battle that Never Was: Congress, the White House, and Agency Litigation Authority

Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 61, P. 205, Winter 1998
Posted: 14 May 1999
Neal Devins and Michael Herz
William & Mary Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

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Symposium, the Government Attorney

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 61, No. 2, 1998.
Posted: 07 Sep 1998
Neal Devins
William & Mary Law School

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