Faculty Publications

Books

Ronald J. Allen, La Prueba Como Explicación y Otras Exploraciones [Juridical Proof as Explanatory and Other Explorations] (Diana Veleda trans., Carmen Vázquez rev. 2025).

Ronald J. Allen, Joseph L. Hoffmann, Debra A. Livingston, Andrew D. Leipold & Tracey L. Meares, Criminal Procedure: Investigation and the Right to Counsel (5th ed. 2025).

Ronald J. Allen, Joseph L. Hoffmann, Debra A. Livingston, Andrew D. Leipold & Tracey L. Meares, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication and Right to Counsel (4th ed. 2025).

Periodical Articles

Ronald J. Allen, Michael S. Pardo, William J. Lawrence & Christopher K. Smiciklas, Minimal Rationality and the Law of Evidence, 115 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 269 (2025).

Ronald J. Allen, Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law, 38 Ratio Juris 72 (2025).

Ronald J. Allen, Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law: A Reply to Tuzet and Ubertone, 38 Ratio Juris 129 (2025).

María Amparo Grau Ruiz, Tax Commitments in the Compromiso de Sevilla – Critical Issues in Financing for Development, 62 Review of European & Comparative Law 179 (2025).

María Amparo Grau Ruiz & Giulia Boletto, International Financial and Tax Cooperation to Support Sustainable Development: Solidarity Reinterpreted, 2025 Rivista di Diritto Tributario Internazionale 67.

Pierre Legrand, Comparative Law’s Shallows and Hollows: A Negative Critique on Ablepsy, 20 Journal of Comparative Law 239 (2025).

David M. Schizer & Steven Gow Calabresi, Wealth Taxes Under the Constitution: An Originalist Analysis, 77 Florida Law Review 1401 (2025).

Accepted Articles

Ronald J. Allen & Nic Elliott-Smith, Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doesn't Exist: Except as an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System, 115 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology ___,  Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-30 (forthcoming 2026).

Myriam Gilles, The Quiet Revival of the Effective Vindication of Rights Doctrine, 94 Fordham Law Review ___, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-52 (forthcoming 2025).

Mark Moller, Incidental Jurisdiction, 14 Texas A&M Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026).

James E. Pfander & Alexander A. Reinert, Exploring the Limits of Qualified Immunity Under Harlow’s Discretionary Function Test, 139 Harvard Law Review ___, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-54 (forthcoming 2026).

James E. Pfander & Mary Zakowski, Nonparty Protective Relief in the Early Republic: Judicial Power to Annul Letters Patent, 120 Northwestern University Law Review ___, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-07, (forthcoming 2025).

Contributions to Books

Alyson Carrel, Shaping the Future of Law Starting by Shattering Negotiation Myths, in Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Coming of Age (2000-2009) 102 (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider & Sarah Rudolph Cole eds. 2025).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

Mary Beckman & Jill Horwitz, “The Steward Debacle: Legal and Ethical Risks of the New Breed of Health Care For-Profits,” Health Affairs Forefront (Sept. 5, 2025).

Steven Calabresi, “Gordon S. Wood Weighs in on Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920,” Volokh Conspiracy (Oct. 5, 2025).

Kate Caldwell, “How Our Health Information Can Be Used to Criminalize Us,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 24, 2025).

Steven Lubet, “Cashless Bail Is Effective and Humane, but Trump Wants to End It,” The Hill (Sept. 2, 2025).

Steven Lubet, “Amy Coney Barrett Somehow Managed to Get the Law and the Bible Wrong in Her New Book,” Slate (Sept. 5, 2024).

Steven Lubet, “Rejecting King Solomon’s Wisdom, the Supreme Court Bows to Ideology,” The Hill (Sept. 15, 2025).

Steven Lubet, “Even Conservatives Can’t Get Behind Trump’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Pick,” The Hill (Sept. 29, 2025).

Steven Lubet, “Students Are Protesting Northwestern’s Anti-bias Training for the Wrong Reasons,” The Hill (Oct. 13, 2025).

Steven Lubet, “Letter to Editor: Advising Students to Boycott the ‘Anti-bias’ Training Is Irresponsible,” Daily Northwestern (Oct. 16, 2025).

John O. McGinnis, “More Government, More Gerrymandering,” Law & Liberty (Sept. 11, 2025).

John O. McGinnis, “Teaching the Republic to Disagree,” Law & Liberty (Sept. 25, 2025).

John O. McGinnis, “Liberalism Without Romance,” Law & Liberty (Oct. 16, 2025).

Chika Okafor, “The Myth of Colorblind Fairness,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 28, 2025).

James E. Pfander, “Looking for Art in the Law Review Article,” Harvard Law Review Blog (Sept. 5, 2025).

Stephen B. Presser, “The Feminization of American Law,” Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (Sept. 2025).

David J. Scheffer, “How the UN Charter Can Help Guide a Polarized World,” Council on Foreign Relations (Sept. 19, 2025).

Annie Shiel, John Ramming Chappell, Priyanka Motaparthy, Wells Dixon & Daphne Eviatar, “Murder by Drone: The Legal and Moral Stakes of the Caribbean Strikes,” Just Security (Sept. 17, 2025). 

James B. Speta, “What Congress Can and Should Do About the Fed’s Independence,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 12, 2025).

James B. Speta, “The FCC Lacks Authority to Punish Broadcasters for Their Viewpoints,” Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment (Sept. 26, 2025).

Working Papers

Nathan Reitinger, Measured Failures of robots.txt: Legal and Empirical Insights for Regulating Robots, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-53 (2025).