Democratic Civic Education and Democratic Law, in NOMOS LXVI: Civic Education in Polarized Times, (edited by Elizabeth Beaumont and Eric Beerbohm, NYU Press, 2024). SSRN
Reliance Arguments, Democratic Law, and Inequity, Jurisprudence (2023). SSRN | Full Text
Unfit to Print: Government Speech and the First Amendment, 69 UCLA L. Rev. 986 (2022). SSRN | Full Text
Hidden Delegations: The Assignment of Contractual Rights and Consumer Debt, MOD. L. REV. 1 (2022). SSRN | Full Text
Democratic Representation as Duty Delegation, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association (2022). SSRN | Full Text
Compelled Speech and the Irrelevance of Controversy, 47 Pepperdine Law Review 731 (2020). Full Text
Back-door Lies and Promising under Coercion, Mind (Oct. 14, 2020). SSRN | Full Text
Democratic Law — Tanner Lecture I, Draft version; essay forthcoming in Vol. 37 of The Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
Common and Constitutional Law: A Democratic Legal Perspective, Tanner Lecture II, Draft version: essay forthcoming in vol. 37 of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
Deceptive Advertising and Taking Responsibility for Others, in Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (edited by Tyler Doggett, Anne Barnhill and Mark Budolfson, Oxford Univ. Press, 2018). SSRN
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Harm and Its Moral Significance, 18 Legal Theory 357-98 (2012). (Posted with permission from Cambridge University Press; Copyright Cambridge University Press.) Abstract
Are Contracts Promises?, Pre-publication version. Edited version appears in the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (edited by Andrei Marmor, Routledge, 2012). Full Text
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Inducing Moral Deliberation: On the Occasional Virtues of Fog, 123 Harvard Law Review 1214-46 (2010). Full Text
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Could Breach of Contract be Immoral?, 107 Michigan Law Review 1551-68 (2009). Full Text
Promising, Intimate Relationships, and Conventionalism, 117 Philosophical Review 481-524 (2008). Full Text | SSRN
Intellectual Property, in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy(edited by Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, Blackwell, 2007).Full Text
The Divergence of Contract and Promise, 120 Harvard Law Review 708-53 (2007). Full Text
Are Credit Card Late Fees Unconstitutional?, 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 457-500 (2006). Full Text | SSRN
What Is Really Wrong With Compelled Association?, 99 Northwestern University Law Review 839-88 (2005). Full Text
Autonomy, Beneficence, and the Permanently Demented, in Ronald Dworkin and His Critics 195-217 (edited by Justine Burley, Blackwell Publishers, 2004).Full Text
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Lockean Arguments for Private Intellectual Property, in New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property 138-67 (edited by Stephen R. Munzer, Cambridge University Press, 2001). Full Text
Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, & Accommodation, 29 Philosophy & Public Affairs 205-51 (2000). Reprinted in Philosophy of Law (edited by Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman, Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2003, 2007). Full Text
Moral Overridingness and Moral Subjectivism, 109 Ethics 772-94 (1999). Full Text
Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm, 5 Legal Theory 117-148 (1999). Excerpted in Philosophy of Law (edited by Jules Coleman and Joel Feinberg, 2007). Full Text
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