Books
The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption.
Oxford University Press (2013).
American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own.
Harvard University Press (2011).
Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On.
Harvard University Press (2008).
Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska.
Harvard University Press (2007).
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.
Harvard University Press (2005).
The Death Penalty: An American History.
Harvard University Press (2002).
Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1860.
University of Oklahoma Press (2000).
Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860.
Cambridge University Press (1998).
Articles and Chapters
American Electric Power Company, Inc. v. State of Connecticut: Brief of Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents (with James R. May),
46
Valparaiso University Law Review
459-500
(2012).
21st Century Fox: Pierson v. Post, Then and Now, 27
Law and History Review
185-88
(2009).
Commodification and the Media, 18
Commodification and the Media
197-201
(2006).
Traces of Slavery: Race and the Death Penalty in Historical Perspective, in
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
(edited by Austin Sarat and Charles Ogletree, New York University Press, 2006).
Speeding up to Smell the Roses, 58
Stanford Law Review
1713-15
(2006).
Preparing to be Colonized: Land Tenure and Legal Strategy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, 39
Law & Society Review
(2005).
Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia, 23
Law and History Review
95-132
(2005).
Granholm v. Heald: A Case of Wine and a Prohibition Hangover, 2004-05
Cato Supreme Court Review
263-86
(2004).
The Second Amendment, So Far, 117
Harvard Law Review
898-917
(2004).
The Myth of the Neutral Amicus: American Courts and Their Friends, 1790-1890, 20
Constitutional Commentary
111-30
(2003).
Transitions Between Property Regimes, 31
Journal of Legal Studies
S359-S371
(2002).
The Death Penalty's Strange Career, 26
Wilson Quarterly
70-82
(2002).
Conquest by Contract: Wealth Transfer and Land Market Structure in Colonial New Zealand, 34
Law & Society Review
47-96
(2000).
Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in 19th Century New Zealand, 24
Law & Social Inquiry
807-52
(1999).
The Origin of the New York Stock Exchange, 1791-1860, 27
Journal of Legal Studies
113-40
(1998).
Abstract
When Christianity Was Part of the Common Law, 16
Law & History Review
27-62
(1998).
Legal History and Legal Scholarship, 76
Washington University Law Quarterly
37-44
(1998).
The Political Function of the Commons: Changing Conceptions of Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1850, 41
American Journal of Legal History
61-93
(1997).
What Causes New Securities Regulation? 300 Years of Evidence, 75
Washington University Law Quarterly
849-55
(1997).
Written Law and Unwritten Norms in Colonial St. Louis, 14
Law & History Review
33-80
(1996).
The Anti-History and Pre-History of Commercial Speech (with Alex Kozinski),
71
Texas Law Review
747-75
(1993).
Who's Afraid of Commercial Speech? (with Alex Kozinski),
76
Virginia Law Review
627-53
(1990).
Please Don’t Read the Title, 50
Ohio State Law Journal
243-56
(1989).
Disqualifying Elected Judges from Cases Involving Campaign Contributors, 40
Stanford Law Review
449-90
(1998).
Book Reviews
115
American Historical Review
209-10
(2010).
Reviewing
Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History, by Bain Attwood.
79
Pacific Historical Review
122-23
(2010).
Reviewing
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.
43
Hawaiian Journal of History
211-12
(2009).
Reviewing
Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʿi?, by Jon M. Van Dyke.
4
California Legal History
561-64
(2009).
Reviewing
The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects, by Gordon Morris Bakken.
27
Law and History Review
684-85
(2009).
Reviewing
The Cambridge History of Law in America, vol. III, The Twentieth Century and After, edited by Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins.
19
Law and Politics Book Review
502-04
(2009).
Reviewing
Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz, edited by Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy.
25
Law and History Review
649-651
(2007).
Reviewing
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640, by Ken MacMillan.
112
American Historical Review
498-99
(2007).
Reviewing
Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830, by Daniel J. Hulsebosch.
10
Legal History
259-62
(2006).
Reviewing
The Invention of Terra Nullius: Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia, by Michael Connor.
24
Law and History Review
458-59
(2006).
Reviewing
Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-Determination, by P. G. McHugh.
47
American Journal of Legal History
456-67
(2005).
Reviewing
The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence, by Cary Federman.
6
Punishment & Society
450-52
(2004).
Reviewing
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, by Franklin E. Zimring.
90
Journal of American History
628-29
(2003).
Reviewing
Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History, by Sandra F. Van Burkleo, Kermit L. Hall, and Robert J. Kaczorowski, eds.
22
Journal of the Early Republic
694-96
(2002).
Reviewing
From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862, by Mark F. Fernandez.
45
American Journal of Legal History
327-28
(2001).
Reviewing
Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974, by Theodore Hamm.
Too Close for Insight, 28
Reviews in American History
460-64
(2000).
Reviewing
Proximity to Death, by William S. McFeely.
44
American Journal of Legal History
73-74
(2000).
Reviewing
City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution, by Bruce Carruthers.