Jack M. Balkin

Yale University - Law School

Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

United States

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Scholarly Papers (86)

1.

Abortion and Original Meaning

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 24, No. 101, 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 128
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2008
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Abortion, Originalism, Interpretation, Equal Protection, Living Constitution

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Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: a Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society

New York University Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2004, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Dec 2003
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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freedom of speech, cyberlaw, constitutional law, democracy, first amendment, telecommunications, intellectual property, popular culture

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The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 78, (2017), Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 592
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 29 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2017
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Asimov, robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, homunculus fallacy, substitution effect, information fiduciary, algorithmic nuisance

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How to Regulate (and Not Regulate) Social Media

1 Journal of Free Speech Law 71 (2021) , Knight Institute Occasional Paper Series, No. 1 (March 25, 2020), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2021
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Social Media, Regulation, Public Sphere, Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Institutions, Affordances, Innovation, Antitrust, Privacy, Intermediary Liability

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Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation

UC Davis Law Review, (2018 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 615
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2017
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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First Amendment, freedom of speech, algorithms, algorithmic society, Big Data, information fiduciary, algorithmic nuisance, private governance, digital infrastructure

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The Future of Free Expression in a Digital Age

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 36, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Feb 2009
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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freedom of speech, Internet, cyberlaw, technology, innovation, infrastructure, telecommunications, intellectual property

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The Constitution in the National Surveillance State

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2008, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 168
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2009
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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surveillance, information policy, privacy, constitution, data mining, civil liberties

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The Path of Robotics Law

California Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 536
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cyberlaw, Law and Technology, Torts, Criminal Law, Responsibility, Substitution Effect

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Free Speech is a Triangle

Columbia Law Review, 2018, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 640
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2018
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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First Amendment, freedom of speech, censorship, digital media, social media, hate speech, right to be forgotten, private governance, information fiduciaries

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Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution

Northwestern University Law Review, 2009
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 27 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2009
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Originalism, Living Constitution, Interpretation, Constitutional Construction, Constitutional Change

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Original Meaning and Constitutional Redemption

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 24, 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 140
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 18 May 2007 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2008
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional interpretation, constitutional theory, original meaning, redemption, redemptive constitutionalism

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Critical Legal Theory Today

On Philosophy in American, Cambridge University Press 2008
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Jan 2008
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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critical legal studies, critical theory, jurisprudence, rule of law

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The Law of AI is the Law of Risky Agents without Intentions

University of Chicago Law Review Online (forthcoming 2024), Yale Law & Economics Research Paper, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Jun 2024
Ian Ayres and Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Risk, Agents, Objective Standards, Negligence, Products Liability, Freedom of Speech, Defamation, Copyright

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Constitutional Rot

Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America, Cass R. Sunstein, ed. (2018, Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 604
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Rot, Constitutional Crisis, Oligarchy, Republicanism, Trust, Polarization, Corruption, Donald Trump

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Information Fiduciaries and the First Amendment

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2016, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 553
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Information Fiduciary, Fiduciary, Trust, Confidence, Privacy, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment

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The Fiduciary Model of Privacy

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 134, No. 1 (November 2020) , Yale Law & Economics Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Nov 2020
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Information Fiduciaries, Fiduciary, Privacy, Trust, Consumer Protection, Surveillance Capitalism, Platforms, Social Media

17.

Old School/New School Speech Regulation

Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 491
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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freedom of speech, First Amendment, censorship, Internet, intermediaries, regulation, collateral censorship, surveillance

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Virtual Liberty: Freedom to Design and Freedom to Play in Virtual Worlds

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 8, p. 2043, 2004, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 74
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Jun 2004
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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First amendment, freedom of speech, virtual worlds, games, cyberspace

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The Processes of Constitutional Change: From Partisan Entrenchment to the National Surveillance State

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 120
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Sep 2006
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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constitutional change, surveillance, emergency powers, regime change, constitutional interpretation

20.

Law and the Humanities: An Uneasy Relationship

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Vol. 18, p. 155, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 121, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 109
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Oct 2006
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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law and the humanities, interdisciplinary studies, interdisciplinarity, humanities

21.

The Recent Unpleasantness: Understanding the Cycles of Constitutional Time

Indiana Law Journal, (2018 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 648
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 08 Aug 2018
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Time, Cycles, Constitutional Rot, Constitutional Crisis, Oligarchy, Republicanism, Regime Theory, Trust, Polarization, Corruption, Donald Trump

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13 Ways of Looking at Dred Scott

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 800, p. 49, 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 153, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 115
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2009
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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dred scott, slavery, constitutional theory, substantive due process, judicial review

23.

Why are Americans Originalist?

LAW, SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY: SOCIO-LEGAL ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ROGER COTTERRELL, David Schiff and Richard Nobles, eds. (Ashgate Publishing, 2015 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 492
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2014
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Originalism, interpretation, constitution, American culture, cultural memory, culture heroes, modernity

24.

Democracy and Dysfunction: An Exchange

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 50 (2017 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 579
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016
Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin
University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Constitution, dysfunction, constitutional reform, 2016 Election, Donald Trump

25.

The Dangerous Thirteenth Amendment

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 224, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 258
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Jul 2012
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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slavery, Thirteenth Amendment, emancipation, republicanism, Guarantee Clause, social memory, Reconstruction

26.

Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, p. 1789, 2010, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 200, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 164
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 19 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2010
Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin
University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School
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dictatorship, constitutionalism, emergency power, presidential power, executive power

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To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism

Social Media, Freedom of Speech and the Future of Our Democracy; Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Social Media, First Amendment, Content Regulation, False Speech, Fake News, Defamation, Antitrust, Competition Law, Privacy Law, Section 230

28.

Commerce

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 109, p. 1, October 2010, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 206
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Commerce, Intercourse, New Deal, Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation

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The New Originalism and the Uses of History

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 303
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 31 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Interpretation, Construction, History, Originalism, Constitutional Argument, Tradition, Ethos, Cultural Memory

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Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot

Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?, Mark A. Graber, Sanford Levinson and Mark Tushnet, eds., (Oxford University Press forthcoming 2018); 77 Maryland Law Review 147 (2017), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 605
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2018
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Crisis, Constitutional Rot, Republicanism, Corruption, Norms, Donald Trump

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Fixing Social Media's Grand Bargain

Hoover Working Group on National Security, Technology, and Law, Aegis Series Paper No. 1814 (October 16, 2018), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 652
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Nov 2018
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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social media, political economy, public sphere, digital capitalism, surveillance, antitrust, information fiduciary, first amendment, public forum, public utility

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Report of the 1st Workshop on Generative AI and Law

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2024
Microsoft Research, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Cornell Law SchoolCornell Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Computer and Information Science, Google DeepMind, University of Washington - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Yale University - Law School, Google DeepMind, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Cambridge, Anthropic, Google, University of Sussex, Independent, University of Michigan, University of California, Davis - School of Law, University of Waterloo - David R Cheriton School of Computer Science, Stanford Law School, Microsoft Corporation, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google DeepMind, Georgetown University Law Center, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Independent, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University California, San Diego, Tidelift, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Nebraska Schools of Law and Engineering
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Generative AI, law, copyright, privacy, intellectual property

33.

The Reconstruction Power

New York University Law Review, Vol. 85, December 2010, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 207
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 26 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Reconstruction Power, Congressional Power, Enforcement Power, Fourteenth Amendment, Section Five, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law

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Free Speech Versus the First Amendment

UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2024
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Freedom of Speech, First Amendment, Algorithms, Social Media, Platforms, Private Governance, Civil Liberties

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Constitutional Crises

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, 2009, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 161, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 146
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2010
Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin
University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional design, constitutional crisis

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Nine Perspectives on Living Originalism

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2012, No. 3, p. 101, 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 245
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism, Living Constitutionalism

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Deconstruction's Legal Career

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 101, 2005, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 104
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Nov 2005
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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deconstruction, jurisprudence, ideology, critical legal studies

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The First Amendment is an Information Policy

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 41, 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Feb 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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First Amendment, freedom of expression, infrastructure, Internet, protest, Wikileaks, information policy

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Lawyers and Historians Argue About the Constitution

Constitutional Commentary, Volume 35 (2020 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2020
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitution, history, originalism, historians, modalities, rhetoric, usable past, professionalism, professional culture

40.

The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age

Buffalo Law Review, 2019 (Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 651
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2019
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Second Gilded Age, First Amendment, freedom of speech, data collection, surveillance, privacy, manipulation, social media, Internet, infrastructure, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, information fiduciaries

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Arguing About the Constitution: The Topics in Constitutional Interpretation

Constitutional Commentary (Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 631
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2018
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Construction, Fidelity, Topics, Rhetoric, Modalities

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The Roots of the Living Constitution

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1129, 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 249
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 May 2012 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2012
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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living constitution, common law constitutionalism, common law adjudication, living originalism, social movements, constitutional change, constitutional interpretation

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The Last Days of Disco: Why the American Political System is Dysfunctional

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 94, 2014, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 498
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2014
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Dysfunction, Constitutional Regime, Constitutional Change, Polarization, President, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Political Time, Transformative Presidency

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Cultural Democracy and the First Amendment

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 109, 2016, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 556
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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First Amendment, Freedom of Expression, Cultural Democracy, Culture, Public Discourse, Public Sphere, Internet, Digital Communication

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How Social Movements Change (or Fail to Change) the Constitution: the Case of the New Departure

Suffolk Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 27, 2005, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 112
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2005
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional law, social movements, judicial review

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'Wrong the Day it Was Decided': Lochner and Constitutional Historicism

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 677, 2005
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 May 2005
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Lochner, Constitution, historicism, constitutional change

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The Proliferation of Legal Truth

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Feb 2003
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Interpretation and Change in the United States: The Official and the Unofficial

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 542
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2015
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitution, interpretation, construction, dialectic of legitimation, constitutional modernity, social movements, originalism, living constitution

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How to Do Constitutional Theory While Your House Burns Down

Boston University Law Review, (2021, Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2021
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Rot, Cycles, Constitutional Development, Constitutional Time, Constitutional Reform, Democratic Backsliding, Minority Rule, Republicanism

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The American Civil Rights Tradition: Anticlassification or Antisubordination?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Feb 2003
Jack M. Balkin and Reva Siegel
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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The Framework Model and Constitutional Interpretation

Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, David Dyzenhaus and Malcom Thorburn, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 545
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 May 2015 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2015
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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interpretation, change, constitution, construction, framework, social movements

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Why Liberals and Conservatives Flipped on Judicial Restraint: Judicial Review in the Cycles of Constitutional Time

Texas Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 215, 2019
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2019
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Political Regimes, Political Time, Cycles, Ideology, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Judicial Restraint, Political Parties, Originalism, Living Constitutionalism

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What Brown Teaches Us About Constitutional Theory

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 6, 2004, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 82
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2004
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Brown v. Board of Education, race relations, equal protection, U.S. Constitution, constitutional theory

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Rabbi Akiva and the Crowns: A Parable of Constitutional Fidelity

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitution, interpretation, Talmud, Torah, modernity, originalism, living constitutionalism

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The Digital Transformation of Education

Greenhow, C., Sonnevend, J. & Agur, C. (Eds.) Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2016, Forthcoming)., Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 564
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Apr 2016
Jack M. Balkin and Julia Sonnevend
Yale University - Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Communication Studies
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Education, Digital Networks, Digital Media, Internet, Archives

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Teaching Constitutional Law Historically

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jul 2024
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitutional law, pedagogy, history, canon, constitutional revolution, democratic backsliding, constitutional rot, constitutional theory

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Must We Be Faithful to Original Meaning?

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 298
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 May 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Interpretation, Fidelity, Originalism, Legitimacy, Halakha, Jewish Law

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Constitutional Memories

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 May 2022 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Memory, Collective Memory, Erasure, Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism, Tradition, Social Movements

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Which Republican Constitution?

Constitutional Commentary, 2016, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 567
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Republicanism, classical liberalism, Randy Barnett, originalism, constitutional tradition, founding era

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Media Access: A Question of Design

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Jul 2008
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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media access, telecommunications, first amendment, Internet

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Abortion, Partisan Entrenchment, and the Republican Party

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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abortion, political parties, judicial review, partisan entrenchment, Republican Party, conservative legal movement

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Verdi's High C

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 286
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 30 May 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Law, Music, Drama, Performance, Performing Arts, Audiences, Interpretation, Constitution

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Information Power: The Information Society from an Antihumanist Perspective

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jul 2010
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Information Power, Privacy, Internet, Memes, Memetics Foucault, Gaia, Globalization

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The Construction of Original Public Meaning

Constitutional Commentary (2016), Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 551
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Interpretation, construction, constitution, original public meaning, thin theory

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Sanford Levinson's Second Thoughts About Constitutional Faith

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 273
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Jan 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitution, Faith, Endgame, Constitutional Amendment, Constitutional Convention

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Respect-Worthy: Frank Michelman and the Legitimate Constitution

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 39, p. 485, 2004, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 69
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Feb 2004
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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legitimacy, constitutional law, Frank Michelman

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Rot and Renewal: The 2020 Election in the Cycles of Constitutional Time

Northeastern University Law Review, 2021
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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2020 Election, Cycles, Constitution, Regime, Political Parties, Polarization, Constitutional Rot

68.

How New Genetic Technologies Will Transform Roe V. Wade

Emory Law Journal, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 134
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Feb 2007
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Roe v. Wade, abortion, contraception, genetics, technology, discrimination, equality

69.

Frederick Douglass as Constitutionalist

Maryland Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Constitutions, Constitutionalism, Constitutional Fidelity, Compromise, Rotten Compromises

70.

Race and The Cycles of Constitutional Time

Missouri Law Review, 2021, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2021
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Cycles, Constitution, Race, Slavery, Regime, Political Parties, Polarization, Constitutional Rot

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Room for Maneuver: Julie Cohen's Theory of Freedom in the Information State

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, (2013 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 262
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2012
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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digital control, semantic discontinuity, freedom of speech, surveillance

72.

The American Constitution as 'Our Law'

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 290
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Apr 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitution, Interpretation, Legitimacy, Faith, Redemption, Purposivism, Comparative Constitutionalism

73.

Constitutional Hardball and Constitutional Crises

Quinnipiac Law Review, Vol. 26, 2008, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 158
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2009
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitutional hardball, constitutional crisis, transformative politics

74.

Obergefell v. Hodges: A Critical Introduction

to appear in Jack M. Balkin, ed., What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Same-Sex Marriage Decision (Yale University Press 2020)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Aug 2020
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Same-sex marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges, gay rights, LGBTQ rights, judicial review, social movements, constitutional change, democratic constitutionalism

75.

Republicanism and the Constitution of Opportunity

Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, Forthcoming, Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 7, 2016, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 572
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 May 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Republicanism, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Constitution, Political Economy, Ideological Drift

76.

We Are All Cafeteria Originalists Now (and We Always Have Been)

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (forthcoming 2024), Yale Law & Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Sep 2024
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitutional interpretation, originalism, rhetoric, constitutional culture, interpretation, cafeteria originalism

77.

Idolatry and Faith: The Jurisprudence of Sanford Levinson

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Apr 2003
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Levinson, faith, religion, law, catholicism, protestantism, idolatry, apology

78.

What Lawyers Want from History

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Oct 2024
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitution, history, constitutional interpretation, memory, originalism, modalities, authority

79.

History, Rights, and the Moral Reading

Boston University Law Review, 2016, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 575
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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James Fleming, Ronald Dworkin, moral reading, Constitution, democracy, history, historical argument, interpretation, originalism

80.

To Alter or Abolish

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 89, 2016, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 654, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 569
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School
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Declaration of Independence, Civil War, Secession, Self-Determination, International Law, Woodrow Wilson

81.

The Court Affirms the Social Contract

The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, and Trevor W. Morrison, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 284
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Mar 2013
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Health Care, Social Contract, Supreme Court, Legitimacy, Affordable Care Act, Judicial Review

82.

Translating the Constitution

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 6, 2020
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2020
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitutional interpretation, fidelity, translation, Lessig, originalism, social meaning, Supreme Court, elites, judicial review

83.

Plessy, Brown and Grutter: A Play in Three Acts

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 May 2005
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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constitution, equality, antidiscrimination law, race, citizenship, plessy, brown v. board of education, grutter v. bollinger

84.

The Distribution of Political Faith

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 1144, 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jun 2012
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Constitutional Redemption, constitutional interpretation, faith

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Morton Horwitz Wrestles with the Rule of Law

Transformations in American History: Law, Ideology, Politics, and Method, Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy, eds. (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Apr 2016
Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin
University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Morton Horwitz, Rule of Law, Administrative State, Critical Legal Studies, Legal Realism, Legal History

86.

Korematsu as the Tribute that Vice Pays to Virtue

Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2021, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Oct 2021
Jack M. Balkin
Yale University - Law School
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Korematsu, Japanese Internment, Judicial Integrity, Racial Equality, Strict Scrutiny