William Baude

University of Chicago - Law School

1111 E. 60th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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Scholarly Papers (47)

1.

The Sweep and Force of Section Three

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 172, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 14 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
University of Chicago - Law School and University of St. Thomas School of Law
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Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, Section Three, Insurrection, Rebellion

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Is Qualified Immunity Unlawful?

106 California Law Review 45, 2018, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 610
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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qualified, immunity, constitutional litigation, constitutional torts, accountability, Section 1983, Ku Klux Klan Act, lawlessness

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The Law of Interpretation

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 130, No. 4, p. 1079, 2017, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 583, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-34
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 25 May 2016 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2017
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 2,611 (9,155)
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law, interpretation, construction, statutory, constitutional, canons, unwritten law, common law, standard picture, telepathic law

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The 'Common-Good' Manifesto

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 136, pp. 861-906 (2023)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2023
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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common good constitutionalism, originalism, natural law, constitutional theory

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Early American Constitutional History: A Source Guide

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
William Baude and Jud Campbell
University of Chicago - Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 2,404 (10,469)
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Constitution, History

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Foreword: The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

9 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 1 (2015), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 508
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2015
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 1,610 (19,716)
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Supreme Court, Orders, Stay, Summary Reversal, Procedure, Procedural Regularity, Per Curiam, Lightning Bolts, Habeas, AEDPA

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Reflections of a Supreme Court Commissioner

106 Minnesota Law Review 2631 (2022)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2022
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Supreme Court, Court-Packing, Commission, Reform, Procedure, Transparency

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General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment

Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Nov 2023
William Baude, Jud Campbell and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School, Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
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Fourteenth Amendment, Privileges or Immunities, general law, fundamental rights, Erie, citizenship, constitutional law

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Micro-Symposium: Richard Posner's 'What is Obviously Wrong with the Federal Judiciary'

20 Green Bag 2d 81 (2016)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Nov 2016
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, SUNY Cortland, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, University of Chicago - Law School, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Georgia State University College of Law
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Kelsen, Schmitt, sovereignty, positivism, originalism, Potter Stewart, Warren Burger, ejusdem, generis, eiusdem, Latin, Loeb, jargon, headings, subheadings, Blaisdell, Brown, Obergefell, Anthony Kennedy, Regan, Lujan

10.

Constitutional Liquidation

71 Stanford Law Review 1 (2019)
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2020
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Constitution, Liquidation, Madison, History, Practice, Tradition, Departmentalism, Precedent, Bank, Public Sanction

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The 2023 Scalia Lecture: Beyond Textualism?

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 46, 2023
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Jun 2023
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 1,260 (28,570)

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The Judgment Power

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, 2008
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2008
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 1,191 (30,885)

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Jurisdiction, Judgments, President, Judicial Power, Enforcement, Merryman, Jurisdiction, Constitution, Constitutional Law

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The Unconstitutionality of Justice Black

Forthcoming, Texas Law Review, Vol. 98, 2019 , U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 707
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2019
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Supreme Court, Hugo Black, Justice Black, Levitt, Ex Parte Levitt, compensation, appointment, unconstitutional, standing, federal jurisdiction, federal courts, emoluments, New Deal, Book of Job

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Severability First Principles

109 Virginia Law Review 1, (2023)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2023
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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severability, constitution, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, ultra vires, standing

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Sovereign Immunity and the Constitutional Text

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 558, 103 Virginia Law Review 1 (2017)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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sovereign immunity, state, alden, nevada v. hall, seminole tribe, constitution, text, franchise tax board, backdrops

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The (Not So) Plain Meaning Rule

84 University of Chicago Law Review 539 (2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-21, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 590
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
William Baude and Ryan Doerfler
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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plain, meaning, ambiguity, statute, statutory, interpretation, legislative history, free proof, Yates, fish

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The Real Enemies of Democracy

109 California Law Review 2407 (2021)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2022
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Democracy, Constitution, Election, Counter-majoritarian, Senate, Electoral College, Treason, Big Lie

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The General Law Right to Bear Arms

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 99, 2024
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
William Baude and Robert Leider
University of Chicago - Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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Bruen, second amendment, bear arms, keep arms, general law, constitution, originalism, original law

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Is Originalism Our Law?

115 Columbia Law Review 2349 (2015), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 551
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2016
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 1,028 (38,112)
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originalism, law, inclusive, positivism, positivist, originalist, pluralist, illuminati

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The Misunderstood Eleventh Amendment

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 169, pp. 609-663 (2021), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-75
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Eleventh Amendment, sovereign immunity, suits against states, Article III, Chisholm, waiver, diversity theory, federal-question jurisdiction, abrogation, Supreme Court

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Adjudication Outside Article III

133 Harvard Law Review 1511 (2020)
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2020
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Article III, Legislative Courts, Due Process, Territorial Courts, Military Courts, Public Rights, Judicial Power

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Grounding Originalism

Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 113, p. 1455, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-22
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2019
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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originalism, constitutional theory, constitutional interpretation, legal theory, jurisprudence, positivism, H.L.A. Hart

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Originalism's Bite

20 Green Bag 2d 103 (2016), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-1
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Originalism, Falsifiability, Abstraction, Positivist, Positivism, Posner

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Originalism and the Law of the Past

Law and History Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019), pp. 809-820, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-46
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2019
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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originalism, legal history, positive turn, original law, vehicles in the park

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Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 1371, 2012
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 05 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2012
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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DOMA, Defense, Marriage, Same-sex, Choice of Law, Conflicts, Common Law, Federal, Questions, Statutory, Interpretation, Klaxon, Borax, Gill

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Making Doctrinal Work More Rigorous: Lessons from Systematic Reviews

84 University of Chicago Law Review 37 (2017), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 768, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 588
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 22 May 2017
William Baude, Adam Chilton and Anup Malani
University of Chicago - Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago - Law School
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Legal scholarship, Systematic Reviews, Doctrinal Analysis, Best Practices, Restatements

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Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 122, No. 1738, 2013
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 27 May 2013
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Eminent Domain, takings, Necessary and Proper, Enumerated Powers, property, federalism, great powers, Kohl, McCulloch

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Compelled Subsidies and the First Amendment

132 Harvard Law Review 171 (2018), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-34
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2018
William Baude and Eugene Volokh
University of Chicago - Law School and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Janus, First Amendment, Free Speech, Compelled Speech, Compelled Subsidies, Taxation, Unions, Abood, Keller, Otter Principle

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Arguing with Friends

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 117, p. 319, 2018, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-27
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2018
William Baude and Ryan Doerfler
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 765 (57,238)
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Judges, Disagreement, Peer, Epistemic, Epistemic Peer, Peer Disagreement, Methodology, Interpretation, Friends

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Originalism as a Constraint on Judges

84 University of Chicago Law Review 2213 (2017)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2017
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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constraint, restraint, originalism, original meaning, judges, Scalia, Justice, constitution, constitutional law, wayward, willful, puzzled

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Is Quasi-Judicial Immunity Qualified Immunity?

74 Stanford Law Review Online 115 (2022), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 761
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 05 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2022
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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qualified immunity, quasi-judicial, immunity, common law, discretion, jurisdiction

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Last Chance on Death Row

Wilson Quarterly, 2010
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 11 Jul 2011
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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actual innocence, death penalty, Troy Davis

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The Court, or the Constitution?

in Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities: Essays on the Influence of Larry Alexander (Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Jun 2017
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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judicial supremacy, originalism, Supreme Court, Constitution, Larry Alexander, positivism, formalism, law, bottom turtle

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Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage after Windsor

8 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 150 (2013)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2014
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Windsor, same-sex, marriage, recognition, interstate, federalism, Obergefell

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Precedent and Discretion

For the Supreme Court Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Feb 2020
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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precedent, discretion, supreme court, gundy, gamble, alito, thomas, constitution, second-best, halfway originalism

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Zombie Federalism

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 475
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 17 May 2014
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Zombies, Brains

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The Official Story of the Law

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 178-201 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac028
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2023
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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positivism, Hart, officials, acceptance, rule of recognition, recognitional community

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State Regulation and the Necessary and Proper Clause

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2015, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 507
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 09 May 2015
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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federalism, commerce, states, necessary and proper, marijuana, Colorado, spillovers, Raich, footnote

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The New and Old Originalism: A Discussion

"Meanings or Decisions? Getting Originalism Back on Track." Library of Law and Liberty. December 2, 2014. , San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-178, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 718, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
University of San Diego School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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originalism, new originalism, old originalism,constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, interpretation, jurisprudence

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The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment

129 Harvard Law Review 1821 (2016)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 18 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 19 May 2016
William Baude and James Y. Stern
University of Chicago - Law School and William & Mary Law School
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Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Legality, Positive Law, Trespass, Search, Katz, Third-Party

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Signing Unconstitutional Laws

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 86, p. 303, 2011
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2011
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Signing, Unconstitutional, Laws, Bills, Veto, Constitutional, Duty, President

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The Constitutionality of the Utah Legal Tender Act

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 25 Jan 2015
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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gold, silver, utah, legal tender, preemption, dormant commerce

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Sharing the Necessary and Proper Clause

128 Harvard Law Review Forum 39 (2014), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Necessary and Proper, Deference, Great Powers, McCulloch, Manning

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Brief of Professors William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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sovereign immunity, Nevada v. Hall, state sovereignty, Eleventh Amendment, subject-matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, full faith and credit, judgment recognition

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Standing in the Shadow of Congress

2016 Supreme Court Review 197
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Aug 2018
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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Standing, Article III, Injury, Lujan, Spokeo, Congress, Privacy, Private Right, Public Right, Muskrat

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Jurisdiction and Constitutional Crisis

65 Florida L. Rev. Forum 1
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 29 Mar 2013
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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jurisdiction, judgment, Roosevelt, President, Supreme Court, gold, Perry, Lincoln, Dred Scott, Magliocca, necessity

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Clarification Needed: Fixing the Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act

110 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 33 (2012)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Jul 2012
William Baude
University of Chicago - Law School
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diversity, jurisdiction, amount, controversy, JVCA