Gregory Ablavsky

Stanford Law School

Professor of Law

559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

United States

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1.

Akhil Amar's Unusable Past

121 Mich. L. Rev. 1119 (2023)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2023
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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constitutional history; legal history; book reviews

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Making Indians 'White': The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and its Racial Legacy

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 159, p. 1457, 2011
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 06 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2011
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution

123 Colum. L. Rev. 243 (2023)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 13 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2023
Gregory Ablavsky and W. Tanner Allread
Stanford Law School and UCLA School of Law
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The Savage Constitution

63 Duke Law Journal 999 (2014)
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 09 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2014
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Legal History, Constitutional History, Native Americans, Treaty Power, Supremacy Clause, War Powers

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'With the Indian Tribes': Race, Citizenship, and Original Constitutional Meanings

70 Stan. L. Rev. 1025 (2018), Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Federal Indian Law, Legal History, Constitutional History, Law and Race, Indian Child Welfare Act, Colorblind Constitutionalism

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Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof: The Indian Law Context

NYU Law Review Online (forthcoming 2025)
Number of pages: 35 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2025
Gregory Ablavsky and Bethany Berger
Stanford Law School and University of Iowa - College of Law
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birthright citizenship, Elk v. Wilkins, federal Indian law

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Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Judges Make, What Influences Those Choices, and Their Consequences

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 161, Pg. 1, 2012, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-31
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 16 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2012
Stephen B. Burbank, S. Jay Plager and Gregory Ablavsky
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Stanford Law School
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Federal judges, judiciary, judicial retirement, retire, senior status, empirical studies, pension, cost-of-living adjustments, COLAs, Rule of 80, incentives and disincentives

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Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause

124 Yale L.J. 1012 (2015)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 14 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2015
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Indian Commerce Clause, Federal Indian Law, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Property Law, Law of Nations

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Too Much History: Castro Huerta and the Problem of Change in Indian Law

2022 Supreme Court Review
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Apr 2023
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Castro-Huerta, federal Indian law, legal history, federalism in Indian country

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The Rise of Federal Title

106 Cal. L. Rev. 631 (2018), Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 11 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Public Lands, Property, Federalism, Equal Footing, Equal Sovereignty, Public Rights, Administrative State, Legal History

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Empire States: The Coming of Dual Federalism

128 Yale Law Journal 1792 (2019)
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 19 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 15 May 2019
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Federalism, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Localism, Federal Indian Law, Guarantee Clause, New State Clause

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A Reply to Mr. Natelson’s 'Preliminary Response to Prof. Ablavsky’s ‘Indian Commerce Clause’ Attack'

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 May 2022
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Brackeen, Robert Natelson, Indian Commerce Clause, Indian Affairs

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Further Thoughts on the Constitutional History of Federal Power Over Indian Affairs

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Nov 2022
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Getting Public Rights Wrong: The Lost History of the Private Land Claims

74 Stan. L. Rev. 277, 2022
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2022
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Administrative Constitutionalism and the Northwest Ordinance

167 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1631
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2019
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Administrative Law, Northwest Ordinance, Northwest Territory, U.S. Legal History, U.S. Territories

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Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause: Robert Natelson's Problematic 'Cite Check'

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Oct 2022
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Sovereign Metaphors in Indian Law

80 Mont. L Rev. 11 (2019)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 May 2022
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Federal Indian law; tribal status; tribal sovereign immunity; federalism; foreign affairs; territories

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Structural Federal Indian Law After Brackeen

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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federal Indian law, Haaland v. Brackeen

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The Original Meaning of Commerce in the Indian Commerce Clause

 56 Connecticut Law Review 1013 (2024)., Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Aug 2024
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Indian Commerce Clause, federal Indian law

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Two Federalist Constitutions of Empire

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1677, 2021
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Aug 2021
Gregory Ablavsky
Stanford Law School
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Federalists, constitutionalism, empire, United States