Jeremy Kessler

Columbia University - Law School

Associate Professor of Law

435 West 116th Street

New York, NY 10025

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

15

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Scholarly Papers (15)

1.

Law and Historical Materialism

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 74, 2024
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2025
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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legal theory, legal history, law and political economy, critical legal studies

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Working Themselves Impure: A Life Cycle Theory of Legal Theories

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 83, pp. 1819-1892, 2016
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 28 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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legal theory, legal history, theory change, legal process, originalism, textualism, popular constitutionalism, cost-benefit analysis, law and politics, public law regulation, constitutional interpretation, statutory interpretation, rules and standards, Kuhn

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The Search for an Egalitarian First Amendment

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, pp. 1953-2010, 2018
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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free speech, free expression, law and inequality, constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional political economy, informational capitalism, information state, speech regulation, rights enforcement, Lochner, Roberts Court, liberal compromise, progressive civil libertarianism

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The Early Years of First Amendment Lochnerism

116 Columbia Law Review 1915 (2016), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-507
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 05 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2016
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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First Amendment, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Judicial Review, Lochner, Footnote Four, Bifurcated Review, Civil Liberties Law, Economic Libertarianism, Conservative Legal Thought

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The Origins of "The Rule of Law"

Law & Contemporary Problems, Volume 87, 2025
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2025
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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legal history, legal theory, law and political economy, law and historical materialism, political theory

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The Invention of a Human Right: Conscientious Objection at the United Nations, 1947-2011

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, Spring 2013
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 May 2013
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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international human rights law, conscientious objection, legal history, sovereignty

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Book Review: The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 129, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Jan 2016
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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administrative law, legal history

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The Political Economy of 'Constitutional Political Economy'

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-521
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2016
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional law, legal history, legal theory, economic inequality

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The Administrative Origins of Modern Civil Liberties Law

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 13 Jul 2014
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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legal history, First Amendment, civil liberties law, constitutional law, administrative law, conscientious objection, law & religion

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A War for Liberty: On the Law of Conscientious Objection

The Cambridge History of World War II, Vol. 3 (Michael Geyer & Adam Tooze eds. 2015)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Jul 2015
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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civil liberties law, administrative law, comparative law, legal history, military history

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Some Legal Realism About Legal Theory

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-584
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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legal theory, legal history, theory change, originalism

12.

Illiberalism and Administrative Government

Law and Illiberalism, eds. Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), 62-77.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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Administrative Law, Public Administration, Legal Theory, Political Theory, Law & Political Economy

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The Uncertain Future of Administrative Law

Mark Tushnet, ed., The Administrative State in the Twenty-First Century: Reconstruction and/or Deconstruction, Daedalus, Summer 2021, 188
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2021
Jeremy Kessler and Charles Sabel
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Law School
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The Legal Origins of Catholic Conscientious Objection

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Jan 2023
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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legal history, constitutional law, First Amendment, law & religion

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New Look Constitutionalism: The Cold War Critique of Military Manpower Administration

167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1749, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 167, No. 7, 2019
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Jeremy Kessler
Columbia University - Law School
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legal history, constitutional law, administrative law, civil liberties law, administrative constitutionalism, Cold War