Jeffrey A. Pojanowski

Notre Dame Law School

Professor

P.O. Box 780

Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780

United States

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Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 213-226, Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012, pp. 487-502, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-05, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-105
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Willamette University College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, St. John’s University - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of Chicago - Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry M. Walborsky Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Associate Dean, Business Program, Stanford Law School, McGill University - Department of Political Science, Suffolk University Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Marquette University - Law School, Independent, Notre Dame Law School, Northeastern University - School of Law, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Berger & Montague, P .C. and Saint Louis University - School of Law
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apps, authority, Case Western Reserve, cheap talk, citation, dialectic, doctrinal, editing, empirics, equilibrium, falsity, Felix Frankfurter, Folk Theorem, footnotes, fraud, Harvard, Lexis, narcissism, peer review, practice, recursion, second-best, solipsism, truth, Westlaw

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Reflections on Seminole Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of Deference to Agency Regulatory Interpretations

Yale Journal of Regulation, Notice & Comment Blog, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2847668, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-41, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-38, Harvard Public Law Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 02 May 2025
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, University of Washington - School of Law, University of Pittsburgh - School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, George Washington University Law School, Independent, Pacific Legal Foundation, University of Michigan Law School, Vanderbilt University - Law School, University of Iowa - College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, New York University School of Law, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, University of Dayton School of Law, Brigham Young University, Utah Supreme Court, Columbia University - Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law, Notre Dame Law School, American Enterprise InstituteGeorge Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Administrative Agencies, Seminole Rock, Auer, What Is New in Administrative Law, Deference, Chevron

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Neoclassical Administrative Law

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 133, p. 852, 2019., Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1923
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2020
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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administrative law, judicial review, legal theory

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Enduring Originalism

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 105, p. 97, 2016
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2016
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski and Kevin C. Walsh
Notre Dame Law School and Catholic University of America (CUA) - Columbus School of Law
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Constitutional interpretation, originalism, positivism, natural law

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Without Deference

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 1075, 2017, Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1618
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Administrative Law, Judicial Review, Statutory Interpretation, Deference, Chevron

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Recovering Classical Legal Constitutionalism: A Critique of Professor Vermeule's New Theory

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 403, 2022
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski and Kevin C. Walsh
Notre Dame Law School and Catholic University of America (CUA) - Columbus School of Law
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Why Should Anyone Be an Originalist?

Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo Online, Vol. 31, p. 583, Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1767
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Oct 2017
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Originalism, Natural Law

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On Teaching Jurisprudence in a Catholic Law School

Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, vol. 58, p. 75 2019., Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 200402
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Jurisprudence, Natural Law

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The Internal Point of View in Private Law

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 67 (forthcoming 2022)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Nov 2021
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski and Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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Private Law Theory, Jurisprudence

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Faces of Formalism

Virginia Law Review, Volume 112 (forthcoming 2026)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 24 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2025
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Reevaluating Legal Theory

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 130, p. 1458 (2021)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 10 May 2021
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Reading Statutes in the Common Law Tradition

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 101, p. 1357, 2015, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1438
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 24 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2015
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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statutory interpretation, common law, legislation

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Statutes in Common Law Courts

91 Texas Law Review 479 (2013), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-55
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2013
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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common law, statutory interpretation, comparative statutory interpretation, intersystemic interpretation, state courts, federal courts

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Reason and Reasonableness in Review of Agency Decisions

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, 2010 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 799 (2010), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-07, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 04-11
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2011
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Chevron deference, deference, common law, standards of review, institutionalism, administrative law

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Administrative Change

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 112, 2011, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 11-21
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 May 2011 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2011
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski and Randy J. Kozel
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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administrative law, statutory interpretation, interpretation, stare decisis, precedent, legal change, change, administrative change, rule of law, Chevron, Fox, deference, standards of review, arbitrary and capricious

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Private Law in the Gaps

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 1689, 2014, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1464
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2014
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Statutory Interpretation, Legislation, Torts, Private Law, Jurisprudence

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Review Essay: Legal Thought in Enlightenment's Wake

4 Jurisprudence, 2013, Forthcoming , Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-80
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2012
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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jurisprudence, legal theory, obligation, authority, conceptual analysis, legal positivism

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Torts Against the State

Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law, Paul B. Miller and John F.K. Oberdiek, eds., Oxford U. Press (2020, Forthcoming), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1921
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Paul B. Miller and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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Tort Law, Jurisprudence, Private Law Theory, Legal Theory

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Revisiting Seminole Rock

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, p. 87, 2018.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Administrative Law, Seminole Rock, Auer, Chevron, Judicial Review

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Discretionary Dockets

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 31, p. 221, 2016
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2016
Randy J. Kozel and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Docket

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Redrawing the Dividing Lines between Natural Law and Positivism(s)

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 101, p. 1023, 2015, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1514
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Jun 2015
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Jurisprudence, Natural Law, Legal Positivism

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The Moral of Torts

The Moral of Torts, in Christianity and Private Law, eds. Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Michael P. Moreland, Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jun 2020
Michael P. Moreland and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Villanova University - Charles Widger School of Law and Notre Dame Law School
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Tort Law, Private Law Theory, Jurisprudence, Natural Law, Law and Religion

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Private Law Formalism and Jurisprudential Method

Forthcoming in Thilo Kuntz and Paul B. Miller, eds., Methodology in Private Law Theory (Oxford University Press)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jan 2023
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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The Place of Force in General Jurisprudence

Legal Theory, Vol. 21, pp. 242-53 (2015)., Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1619
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2017
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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jurisprudence, legal theory, legal positivism, natural law, coercion

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Reconstructing an Administrative Republic

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 116, p. 959, 2018., Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1917
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2019
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Administrative Law, Separation of Powers, Constitutional Law

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St. John Henry Newman's Development of Doctrine and Law: Some Preliminary Notes and Questions

2024 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: Per Curiam 36.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 22 Jan 2025
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Prospects for the Inclusion of the Thomistic Concept of Ius in Contemporary Legal Philosophy

The Concept of Ius in Thomas Aquinas (Loïc-Marie Le Bot & Petar Popovic, eds.) (2024 Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Nov 2023
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Notre Dame Law School
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Tort Law, Jurisprudence, Natural Law