Louis Michael Seidman

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All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

• Louis Michael Seidman, Geoffrey R. Stone, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet & Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 7th ed. forthcoming).   
• Louis Michael Seidman, A Thought Experiment, (working paper).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Political and Constitutional Obligation, 93 B.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Books

• Louis Michael Seidman, On Constitutional Disobedience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Geoffrey R. Stone, Mark V. Tushnet, Cass R. Sunstein & Pamela S. Karlan, The First Amendment (New York: Aspen Publishers 4th ed. 2012).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Mark V. Tushnet, Geoffrey R. Stone, Cass R. Sunstein & Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 6th ed. 2009).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Silence and Freedom (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press 2007).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Mark V. Tushnet, Geoffrey R. Stone & Cass R. Sunstein, Constitutional Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 5th ed. 2005).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Constitutional Law: Equal Protection of the Laws (New York: Foundation Press 2003).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Mark V. Tushnet, Geoffrey R. Stone & Cass R. Sunstein, Constitutional Law (Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Law & Business 4th ed. 2001).   
• Louis Michael Seidman, Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2001).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

• Louis Michael Seidman, Depoliticizing Federalism, 35 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 121-127 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Acontextual Judicial Review, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 1143-1181 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Hyper-Incarceration and Strategies of Disruption: Is There a Way Out?, 9 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 109-132 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Should We Have a Liberal Constitution?, 27 Const. Comment. 541-556 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An Essay on Unenumerated Rights and the Impossibility of Textualism, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 2129-2159 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Louis Michael Seidman, The Dale Problem: Property and Speech Under the Regulatory State, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1541-1600 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Can Constitutionalism be Leftist?, 26 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 557-577 (2008).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Gay Sex and Marriage, the Reciprocal Disadvantage Problem, and the Crisis in Liberal Constitutional Theory, 31 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 135-150 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Critical Constitutionalism Now, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 575-592 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Torture's Truth, 72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 881-918 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Left Out, 67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 23-32 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Out of Bounds, 65 Ohio St. L.J. 1329-1339 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Louis Michael Seidman, The Secret Life of the Political Question Doctrine, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 441-480 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Democracy and Legitimation: A Response to Professor Guinier, 34 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 77-88 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Louis Michael Seidman & Mark V. Tushnet, When Judges Tell Us What They Mean, 5 Graven Images 254-258 (2002).   
• Louis Michael Seidman, Eavesdropping on the Justices, 5 Green Bag 2d 117 (2001) (reviewing Dell Dickson, The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985) (2001)).    [L] [W]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Mark Tushnet: A Personal Reminiscence, 90 Geo. L.J. 127-130 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Louis Michael Seidman, What's So Bad About Bush v. Gore? An Essay on Our Unsettled Election, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 953-1026 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

• Louis Michael Seidman, Three Puzzles in the Work of Bill Stuntz, in The Political Heart of Criminal Procedure: Essays on Themes of William J. Stuntz 200-211 (Michael Klarman, David Skeel & Carol Steiker eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2012).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Powell's Choice: The Law and Morality of Speech, Silence, and Resignation by High Government Officials, in Speech and Silence in American Law 48-82 (Austin Sarat ed., New York: Cambridge University Press 2010).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Entrapment and the "Free Market" for Crime, in Criminal Law Conversations 493-515 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan & Stephen Garvey eds., New York: Oxford University Press 2009).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, "What are You Doing Here?" An Autobiographical Fragment, in Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education 166-168 (Mildred Wigfall Robinson & Richard J. Bonnie eds., Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press 2008).   
• Louis Michael Seidman, Comment: Marbury and the Authoritarian Straddle, in Arguing Marbury v. Madison 160-165 (Mark V. Tushnet ed., Stanford, Cal.: Stanford Law and Politics 2005).    [BOOK]
• Louis Michael Seidman, Judicial Activism and Judicial Restraint, Entry, in 3 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 1449-1450 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Dennis J. Mahoney eds., New York: MacMillan Reference USA 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]

Congressional Testimony

• Examination of the Constitutional Amendment on Marriage: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution, Civil Rights, & Prop. Rights of the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong., Oct. 20, 2005 (Statement of Louis Michael Seidman) (CIS-No.: 2006-S521-9).    [Gtown Law]