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Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Victoria F. Nourse, The History of Multi-Member Commissions At The Founding, 1789-1840: New Evidence on Independent Agencies, Duke L.J. (forthcoming). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]
Neel U. Sukhatme, Victoria Nourse & Kevin Tobia, Is Originalism Orthodoxy?, J. Legal Analysis (forthcoming). [SSRN]

Books

William N. Eskridge, Jr., Abbe R. Gluck & Victoria F. Nourse, Statutes, Regulation, and Interpretation: Legislation and Administration in the Republic of Statutes (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic 2d ed. 2024). [BOOK]
William N. Eskridge, Jr., Abbe R. Gluck & Victoria F. Nourse, Statutes, Regulation, and Interpretation: Legislation and Administration in the Republic of Statutes (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic 2014 & Supp. 2016-2021).
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Victoria F. Nourse, The Impeachments of Donald Trump: An Introduction to Constitutional Interpretation (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing 2021).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2016).
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Victoria F. Nourse, In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008). [BOOK]
Mary Becker, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Victoria F. Nourse & Kimberly A. Yuracko, Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 3d ed. 2007).
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Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Victoria Nourse, American Public Law Revolution, 72 UCLA L. Rev. 1464-1502 (2026). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [W]
Victoria F. Nourse, Loper Bright in a Larger Interpretive Perspective: Is This Justice Scalia’s Court Anymore?, 31 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 601-618 (2024). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [W] [L]
Victoria F. Nourse, The Common Law’s Resistance to Gender Violence, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 167-224 (2024). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Kevin Tobia, Brian Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 365-458 (2023). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria Nourse, The Paradoxes of a Unified Judicial Philosophy: An Empirical Study of the New Supreme Court: 2020–2022, 38 Const. Comment. 1-64 (2023). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
Kevin Tobia, Brian G. Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Statutory Interpretation from the Outside, 122 Colum. L. Rev. 213-329 (2022).
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Kevin Tobia, Brian Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Progressive Textualism, 110 Geo. L.J. 1437-1493 (2022).
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Victoria Nourse, The Constitutional (and Political) Safeguards Against Impeachment, 87 Mo. L. Rev. 819-833 (2022).  [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L]
William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Victoria F. Nourse, Textual Gerrymandering: The Eclipse of Republican Government in an Era of Statutory Populism, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1718-1825 (2021).
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Victoria Nourse, Textualism 3.0: Statutory Interpretation After Justice Scalia, 70 Ala. L. Rev. 667-685 (2019).
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Victoria Nourse, The Constitution Entire: An Essay on Legislated Rights, 10 Faulkner L. Rev. 1-27 (2018).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Reclaiming the Constitutional Text from Originalism: The Case of Executive Power, 106 Calif. L. Rev. 1-44 (2018).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Underwrites, Overrides, and Recovered Precedents, 104 Va. L. Rev. Online 89-100 (2018).
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Akhil Reed Amar, Frank Easterbrook, John C. Harrison, Victoria F. Nourse & William Francis Kuntz II, Panel, Rules Versus Standards in Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation, 53 Tulsa L. Rev. 539-557 (2018).
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Anita S. Krishnakumar & Victoria F. Nourse, The Canon Wars, 97 Tex. L. Rev. 163-191 (2018) (reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., Interpreting Law: A Primer on How to Read Statutes and the Constitution (2016) & Antonin Scalia & Bryan Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012)).
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Victoria F. Nourse, The Special Counsel, Morrison v. Olson, and the Dangerous Implications of the Unitary Executive Theory, 12 Advance 43-60 (2018).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Picking and Choosing Text: Lessons for Statutory Interpretation from the Philosophy of Language, 69 Fla. L. Rev. 1409-1437 (2017).
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Victoria F. Nourse, When Eugenics Became Law, 530 Nature 418 (2016) (reviewing Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (2016)). [WWW]
Victoria F. Nourse, The Constitution and Legislative History, 17 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 313-363 (2014). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Elementary Statutory Interpretation: Rethinking Legislative Intent and History, 55 B.C. L. Rev. 1613-1658 (2014). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse & Gregory Shaffer, Empiricism, Experimentalism, and Conditional Theory, 67 SMU L. Rev. 141-184 (2014). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Response, Overrides: The Super-Study, 92 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 205-216 (2014). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
Akhil Reed Amar, David Barron, C. Boyden Gray, John O. McGinnis, Victoria F. Nourse & A. Raymond Randolph, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: 2012 National Lawyers Convention: Showcase Panel II: Separation of Powers, 59 Loy. L. Rev. 573-621 (2013).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Decision Theory and Babbitt v. Sweet Home: Skepticism About Norms, Discretion, and the Virtues of Purposivism, 57 St. Louis U. L.J. 909-929 (2013). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, A Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation: Legislative History by the Rules, 122 Yale L.J. 70-152 (2012). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse & John P. Figura, Toward a Representational Theory of the Executive, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 273-303 (2011) (reviewing Steven G. Calabresi & Christopher S. Yoo, The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush (2008)). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Victoria F. Nourse, Misunderstanding Congress: Statutory Interpretation, the Supermajoritarian Difficulty, and the Separation of Powers, 99 Geo. L.J. 1119-1177 (2011). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Buck v. Bell: A Constitutional Tragedy from a Lost World, 39 Pepp. L. Rev. 101-117 (2011). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Two Kinds of Plain Meaning, 76 Brook. L. Rev. 997-1005 (2011). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Irasema Garza, Lynn Hecht Schafran, Victoria F. Nourse, Sally Goldfarb, Patricia Reuss, Hilary Shelton & Helen Neubourne, Panel One: Present at the Creation: Drafting and Passing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 11 Geo. J. Gender & L. 511-531 (2010).
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Victoria F. Nourse & Greg Shaffer, Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 61-137 (2009). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse & Sarah A. Maguire, The Lost History of Governance and Equal Protection, 58 Duke L.J. 955-1012 (2009). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Victoria F. Nourse, A Tale of Two Lochners: The Untold History of Substantive Due Process and the Idea of Fundamental Rights, 97 Calif. L. Rev. 751-799 (2009).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Equality's Future: An Introduction, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 161-167 (2008). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, After the Reasonable Man: Getting Over the Subjectivity/Objectivity Question, 11 New Crim. L. Rev. 33-50 (2008). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Howard Erlanger, Bryant Garth, Jane Larson, Elizabeth Mertz, Victoria F. Nourse & David Wilkins, Foreword, Is It Time for a New Legal Realism?, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 335-363.
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Victoria F. Nourse, Upending Status: A Comment on Switching, Inequality, and the Idea of the Reasonable Person, 2 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 361-375 (2004) (reviewing Cynthia Lee, Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom (2003)). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Toward a New Constitutional Anatomy, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 835-900 (2004). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Rethinking Crime Legislation: History and Harshness, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 925-939 (2004). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Reconceptualizing Criminal Law Defenses, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1691-1746 (2003). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, Hearts and Minds: Understanding the New Culpability, 6 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 361-388 (2002). [HEIN] [W]
Victoria F. Nourse, Law's Constitution: A Relational Critique, 17 Wis. Women's L.J. 23-56 (2002). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse & Jane S. Schacter, The Politics of Legislative Drafting: A Congressional Case Study, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 575-624 (2002). [HEIN] [W] [L]
Victoria F. Nourse, Self-Defense and Subjectivity, 68 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1235-1308 (2001). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Victoria F. Nourse, The "Normal" Successes and Failures of Feminism and the Criminal Law, 75 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 951-978 (2000). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Brief of Amici Curiae Professor Victoria Nourse and Lawyers Defending American Democracy Supporting Respondent, Trump v. Slaughter, No. 25-332 (U.S. Nov. 12, 2025). [WWW]
Brief of Statutory Interpretation Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Tanzin v. Tanvir, No. 19-71 (U.S. Feb. 12, 2020).
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Congressional Testimony

The Equal Rights Amendment: Achieving Constitutional Equality for All: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on Oversight & Reform, 117th Cong., Oct. 21, 2021 (Statement of Victoria F. Nourse)(CIS-No.: 2021-H601-218772).
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Book Chapters & Collected Works

Victoria F. Nourse, Power, in Justice Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law 35-46 (Brian G. Slocum & Francis J. Mootz III eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2019).
Victoria F. Nourse, Violence Against Women and Liberal Sexism, in Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence 213-230 (Robin L. West & Cynthia Grant Bowman eds., Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar 2019).
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Victoria F. Nourse, Self-Defense, in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law 607-628 (Markus D. Dubber & Tatjana Hörnle eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014). [BOOK]
Victoria F. Nourse, The Accidental Feminist, in Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory 339-351 (Martha Albertson Fineman ed., New York: Routledge 2011). [BOOK]
Victoria F. Nourse, Feminism: Legal Aspects, Entry, in 2 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 707-714 (Joshua Dressler ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA 2d ed. 2002). [BOOK]