Steven G. Calabresi

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Professor of Law

375 E. Chicago Ave

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

39

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Scholarly Papers (39)

1.

Term Limits for the Supreme Court: Life Tenure Reconsidered

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-24
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 26 May 2006
Steven G. Calabresi and James Lindgren
Downloads 5,193 (2,976)
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Opinion on the Constitutionality of Robert Mueller's Appointment

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-14
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2018
Steven G. Calabresi
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Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, and Criminal Law

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The Jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Response to Professor Bruce Allen Murphy and Professor Justin Driver

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-05, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 15-10
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2015
Steven G. Calabresi and Justin Braga
Downloads 1,827 (16,293)

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Constitutional Law, Religion, Jurisprudence, Fourteenth Amendment, Supreme Court

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Originalism and Sex Discrimination

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, 2011, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 11-63
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 19 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2011
Steven G. Calabresi and Julia Rickert
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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Fourteenth Amendment; sex discrimination, gender discrimination, Nineteenth Amendment, originalism, Justice Scalia, voting rights, VMI, Muller

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Originalism and Same Sex Marriage

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-51
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
Steven G. Calabresi and Hannah Begley
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Stanford University, School of Law, Students
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Gay rights, Constitutional law, Fourteenth Amendment, Marriage law, Right to Privacy, Equal Protection Doctrine

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The Origins of Judicial Review

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-05, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-01
Number of pages: 153 Posted: 08 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2023
Steven G. Calabresi and Jasmine Owens
Downloads 1,391 (24,691)
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Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Separation of Powers, Federal Jurisdiction

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Individual Rights Under State Constitutions When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition?

Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 1, November 2008, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-06
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 29 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009
Steven G. Calabresi and Sarah E. Agudo
Downloads 1,316 (26,750)

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Bill of Rights, Natural Rights, Substantive Due Process, Legal History, Fourteenth Amendment, State Constitutions, 1868, Inalienable Rights, Eighth Amendment, Cruel & Unsual Punishment, Second Amendment, Bear Arms, Incorporation

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The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2004

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, p. 601, 2005, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 04-12, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 04-09
Number of pages: 131 Posted: 15 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2020
Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi and Anthony J. Colangelo
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
Downloads 1,289 (27,598)

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executive, constitutional law, legal history, special counsels, independent agencies

10.

Originalism and Brown v. Board of Education

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-26, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 13-26
Number of pages: 170 Posted: 27 Oct 2013
Steven G. Calabresi and Michael Perl
Downloads 781 (55,867)
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Public School Education, Constitutional Provisions, Fundamental Rights, Statutes and Case Law, Segregation Laws, State Constitutional Provisions

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The Jurisprudence of Justice Samuel Alito

87 George Washington Law Review 507 (2019)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2019
Steven G. Calabresi and Todd W. Shaw
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Supreme Court, Jurisprudence, Justice Alito, Justice Scalia, Originalism, Original Public Meaning, Edmund Burke, Burke

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The Unitary Executive During the Third Half-Century, 1889-1945

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 04-11; Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 04-10
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 29 Jun 2004
Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi and Laurence Nee
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Downloads 553 (86,924)

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Unitary Executive

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The President: Lightning Rod or King?

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, p. 2611, 2006, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 930384
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2011
Steven G. Calabresi and James Lindgren
Downloads 510 (96,139)
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The Same-Sex Marriage Cases and Federal Jurisdiction: On Third-Party Standing and Why the Domestic Relations Exception to Federal Jurisdiction Should Be Overruled

University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 3, Pg. 508, 2016, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-18, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-50
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
Steven G. Calabresi and Genna L. Sinel
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same-sex marriage, gay marriage, federal jurisdiction, Article III, Domestic Relations Exception, third-party standing, Fourteenth Amendment, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, Right to Privacy

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'A Shining City on a Hill': American Exceptionalism and the Supreme Court's Practice of Relying on Foreign Law

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 892585
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Steven G. Calabresi
Downloads 483 (102,706)
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Monopolies and the Constitution: A History of Crony Capitalism

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 17 Aug 2012
Steven G. Calabresi and Larissa Price
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 458 (109,402)
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Middle to Late Nineteenth Century, Progressive Era, Statue of Monopolies, Colonial America, Fourtheenth Amendment, Econoic Liberty, Federal Anitrust Law, Antimonopoly Provisions

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Does the Incompatibility Clause Apply to the President?

PENNumbra, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Steven G. Calabresi
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Incompatibility Clause, Office under the United States, Senator Obama, Senator McCain

19.

The Rule of Law as a Law of Law

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-14, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2014
Steven G. Calabresi and Gary Lawson
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Boston University School of Law
Downloads 385 (133,803)
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rule of law, Scalia, rules, standards

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Two Cheers for Professor Balkin's Originalism

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-38
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Steven G. Calabresi and Livia Fine
Downloads 380 (136,112)

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Originalism, Constitutional Theory, Justice Scalia, Constitutionalism

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Federalism and Subsidiarity: Perspectives from Law

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-12, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-21, APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Steven G. Calabresi and Lucy D. Bickford
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Religion and the Equal Protection Clause

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-19
Number of pages: 194 Posted: 17 Aug 2012
Steven G. Calabresi and Abe Salander
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Fourteenth Amendment, Class Legislation, Political Rights, Historical Persecution, History of Religious Equality in America, Discrimination on Basis of Reglion, Education Monopoly, Endorse Pluralism

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Originalism and Loving v. Virginia

Brigham Young University Law Review, Forthcoming, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper 12-03, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-06
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 13 Mar 2012
Steven G. Calabresi and Andrea Matthews
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due process, legal history, state and local government law, constitutional law, sexuality and the law, law and society, jurisprudence

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Individual Rights Under State Constitution in 2018: What Rights are Deeply Rooted in a Modern-Day Consensus of the States

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-02, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-02
Number of pages: 115 Posted: 08 Feb 2018
Steven G. Calabresi, Hannah Begley, Katherine L. Dore and Sarah E. Agudo
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Stanford University, School of Law, Students, Independent and Independent
Downloads 321 (162,981)
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Constitutional Law, The Fourteenth Amendment, The Bill of Rights and Individual Liberties, American Legal History

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Essay on the Origins and Growth of Judicial Review

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-18
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2016
Steven G. Calabresi
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Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Judicial Review, Separation of Powers, Federalism, International Law

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Substantive Due Process after Gonzales v. Carhart

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 106, June 2008, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-10
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Apr 2008
Steven G. Calabresi
Downloads 298 (176,185)

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substantive due process, washington v. glucksberg, rights deeply rooted in history and tradition, assisted suicide, Lawrence v. Texas, gay rights

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Why Robert Mueller’s Appointment As Special Counsel Was Unlawful

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-01 , Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 31 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2019
Steven G. Calabresi and Gary Lawson
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Boston University School of Law
Downloads 295 (178,129)
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Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, American Legal History

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The Global Rise of Judicial Review Since 1945

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-20
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Steven G. Calabresi
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Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Judicial Review, American Legal History, Legal History Generally

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On Liberty and the Fourteenth Amendment: The Original Understanding of the Lockean Provisos

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-08, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-06
Number of pages: 174 Posted: 18 Feb 2014
Steven G. Calabresi and Sofia Vickery
Downloads 267 (199,477)
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Constitutional Law; Individual Rights; Legal History; Civil Right Liberties

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The Fatally Flawed Theory of the Unbundled Executive

Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-40
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Nov 2008
Steven G. Calabresi and Nicholas K. Terrell
Downloads 261 (201,717)
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Unitary Executive, Bundled Executive, Presidential Power, Independent Agencies, Independent Counsels, Public choice, Theory

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The President's Power to Execute the Laws

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 104, No. 541, 1994
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Steven G. Calabresi and Saikrishna Prakash
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Executive Branch, Originalist, Textualist, Legislative History, Separation of Powers

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The Number of States and the Economics of American Federalism

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-08
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Jun 2009
Steven G. Calabresi and Nicholas K. Terrell
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Economics of Federalism, Number of States, Self-Enforcing Federalism, Federal Power, State Power, Expansion, Size of Nations, Public Choice, Theory

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Hayek and the Citation of Foreign Law

Michigan State Law Review, Forthcoming, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-23, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-55
Number of pages: 182 Posted: 21 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2016
Steven G. Calabresi and Bradley Silverman
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Yale University, Law School, Students
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Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Economics

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The Free Exercise of Religion

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 17-26
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Dec 2017
Steven G. Calabresi
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Constitutional Law, The Fourteenth Amendment, Religion and the Law

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Democracy, Distrust, and Judicial Umpiring in the G-20 Nations

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-28
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Oct 2021
Steven G. Calabresi
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Constitutional Law, Fourteenth Amendment, American Legal History, Comparative Law

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Congress Has Not Created an Inferior Office of Special Counsel Since 1999

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-17
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 11 Jul 2018
Steven G. Calabresi
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Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, Criminal Law, Administrative Law

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The Unitary Executive During the First Half-Century

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 47, p. 1451, 1997
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 27 Apr 2020
Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Legal History, Separation of Powers, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law

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The Unitary Executive During the Second Half-Century

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 26, p. 667, 2003
Number of pages: 135 Posted: 27 Apr 2020
Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Legal History, Separation of Powers, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law

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What McCulloch v. Maryland Got Wrong: The Original Meaning of 'Necessary' Is Not 'Useful,' 'Convenient,' or 'Rational'

Baylor Law Review, Forthcoming, Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 24, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-34
Posted: 02 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2022
Steven G. Calabresi, Gary Lawson and Elise Kostial
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Boston University School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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