Stephen E. Sachs

Harvard Law School

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1.

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
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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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General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 76, pp. 1185-1253 (2024)
Number of pages: 69 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

4.

Give Parents the Vote

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 22 Jul 2024
Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen E. Sachs
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Harvard Law School
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voting, parents, children, guardians, mentally incapacitated, franchise, voting rights, demeny voting

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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
Ross E. Davies, Timothy Delaune, Swift Edgar, Jonathan Mermin, William Baude, Stephen E. Sachs, Richard A. Posner and Eric Segall
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

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Good and Evil in the American Founding: The 2023 Vaughan Lecture on America's Founding Principles

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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America, Founding, liberalism, history, politics, statues, monuments, slavery, George Washington, Newport Congregation, Touro Synagogue, American Jews

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Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 817-888, 2015
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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originalism, rules of change, positivism, constitutional interpretation, jurisprudence

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Originalism: Standard and Procedure

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 135, pp. 777-830 (2022), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-27
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2022
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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originalism, constitutional law, constitutional theory, interpretation, history, standards, decision procedures, philosophy, uncertainty

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Finding Law

California Law Review, 2019, vol. 107, pp. 527-81, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-31
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 01 May 2019
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Common Law, Unwritten Law, Finding Law, Judicial Lawmaking, Erie, Legal Theory, Brooding Omnipresence

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From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant'

American University International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 685-812, 2006
Number of pages: 128 Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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law merchant, lex mercatoria, legal history, transnational law, medieval England, commercial law, Middle Ages, St. Ives, fairs, conflict of law, choice of law, private international law

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Dobbs and the Originalists

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 May 2024
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Dobbs, Supreme Court, abortion, originalism, original law, general law, Fourteenth Amendment, privileges and immunities

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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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The Uneasy Case for the Affordable Care Act

Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 75, No. 3, p. 17, 2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Affordable Care Act, health care, minimum coverage, individual mandate, tax clause, commerce clause, necessary and proper clause

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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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Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction

Supreme Court Review, Vol. 2023, pp. 213-250
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Apr 2024
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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personal jurisdiction, dormant commerce, due process, Mallory, International Shoe, corporate law, internal affairs

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Originalism Without Text

Yale Law Journal, vol. 127, pp. 156-168 (2017), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-46
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2017
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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originalism, text, original meaning, original law, constitution, interpretation, unwritten law

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Constitutional Backdrops

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 1813, 2012
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 27 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Constitutional Backdrops, common law, incorporation by reference, defeasible, defeasibility, contempt of congress, executive power, removal, state borders, sovereign immunity, stare decisis

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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

21.

Life After Erie

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Nov 2023
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Erie, general law, Swift, common law, general common law, federal common law, statutory interpretation, international law, choice of law, fundamental rights

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Pennoyer Was Right

Texas Law Review, Vol. 95, pp. 1249-1327 (2017), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-61
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 02 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2017
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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personal jurisdiction, civil procedure, conflict of laws, federal courts, federalism, general law, international law, pennoyer v. neff

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Supreme Court as Superweapon: A Response to Epps & Sitaraman

129 Yale Law Journal Forum 93 (2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-77
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Supreme Court, legitimacy, Anthony Kennedy, court-packing, lottery, balanced bench, Daniel Epps, Ganesh Sitaraman, judicial reform

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The Unlimited Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 106, pp. 1703-1768, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-51
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2020
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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personal jurisdiction, federal courts, Rule 4, due process, international jurisdiction, congressional power

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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
Steven Douglas Smith, Michael B. Rappaport, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
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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How Congress Should Fix Personal Jurisdiction

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 4, pp. 1301-1354 (2014)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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personal jurisdiction

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The 'Constitution in Exile' as a Problem for Legal Theory

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 5, pp. 2253-2298, 2014
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Jun 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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constitutional change, constitutional practice, constitutional theory, global error, constitution in exile, originalism

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Full Faith and Credit in the Early Congress

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 95, pp. 1201-1279, 2009
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 27 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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full faith and credit, conflict of laws, effects clause, recognition of judgments

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According to Law

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 46, pp. 1271-1297 (2023)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 May 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2024
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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positive law, natural law, separation of law and morals, common good constitutionalism

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John McCain's Citizenship: A Tentative Defense

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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John McCain, Canal Zone, citizenship, naturalization, immigration, natural born citizen, presidential eligibility, statutory interpretation

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Precedent and the Semblance of Law

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 33, p. 417 (2018), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-40
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 May 2018 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2018
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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precedent, stare decisis, constitutional law, error theory, semblance, randy kozel, settled versus right, kant

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The 'Unwritten Constitution' and Unwritten Law

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2013, No. 5, p. 1797
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Nov 2013
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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unwritten constitution, unwritten law, common law, Akhil Amar, America's Unwritten Constitution

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Saving Toby: Extortion, Blackmail, and the Right to Destroy

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 251, 2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jan 2006
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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extortion, blackmail, right to destroy, property, threats, toby, rabbit

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Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Jul 2022
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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personal jurisdiction, corporations, consent, registration, general jurisdiction, Mallory, Daimler, Pennoyer

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The Forum Selection Defense

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2015
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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forum selection, Atlantic Marine, choice of court, waiver, defense, procedure, contract

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Five Questions After Atlantic Marine

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 66, p. 761, 2015, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2015
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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forum selection, Atlantic Marine, transfer, venue, forum non conveniens, 1404, Erie, appeal, mandamus

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The Law and Morals of Interpretation

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.103-114, 2018
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2018
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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law, morals, constitutional law, originalism, amendment, political obligation

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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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Closing Reflections on the Supreme Court and Constitutional Governance: Testimony Before the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2021
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Supreme Court, Presidential Commission, court-packing, jurisdiction-stripping, 18-year terms, supermajority voting, cameras in the Court

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Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. U.S. District Court

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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forum selection, forum-selection clauses, venue, Federal Rules, Atlantic Marine, Supreme Court

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Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-21
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Personal jurisdiction, due process, fela, federal employers' liability act, congress, bnsf railway co. v. tyrrell

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Law Within Limits: Judge Williams and the Constitution

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Mar 2023
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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Stephen F. Williams, constitutional law, Supreme Court, D.C. Circuit, lower-court law, precedent

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Corruption, Clients, and Political Machines: A Response to Professor Issacharoff

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 124, pp. 62-71, 2011
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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campaign finance, corruption, clientelism

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Why John McCain Was a Citizen at Birth

107 Michigan Law Review First Impressions, pp. 49-57 (2008)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Jun 2013
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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John McCain, Canal Zone, citizenship, naturalization, immigration, natural born citizen, presidential eligibility, statutory interpretation

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Conflict Resolution at a Medieval English Fair

Eine Grenze in Bewegung: Öffentliche und private Justiz im Handels- und Seerecht (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs Kolloquien 81, Albrecht Cordes & Serge Dauchy eds., Forthcoming 2012)
Posted: 05 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School

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law and norms, informal adjudication, lex mercatoria, law merchant, fair courts, medieval

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Alternative Theories of the Crime

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 07 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2009
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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The Feigned Issue in the Federal System

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Stephen E. Sachs
Harvard Law School
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