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ROBERT W. BENNETT
2019
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Robert Bennett: Are Presidential Election Ballots Invalid?, Election Law Blog (Oct. 21, 2019).
2018
Articles
- What Does It Mean to Support the Second Amendment?, National Law Journal (Apr. 6, 2018).
2017
Contributions to Books
- Regional Governance in the United States, in Regional Governance and Development of The Rule-of-law 481 (2017) (translated to Chinese).
2016
Articles
- The Document and the Drama, 31 Constitutional Commentary 397 (2016) (reviewing JAMES E. FLEMING, FIDELITY TO OUR IMPERFECT CONSTITUTION (2015)).
Contributions to Books
- Constitutional Interpretation, in The Oxford Handbook of Language And Law (Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan eds. 2016).
2013
Articles
- Tensions in Melding Democracy and Judicial Review, 2012 Annuario Di Diritto Comparato E Di Studi Legislativi 117.
2012
Contributions to Books
- Electoral College Reform at the State Level, in America Votes!: A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights, 2nd edition 305-319 (Benjamin E. Griffith ed. 2012).
- Constitutional Interpretation, in The Oxford Handbook of Language And Law 114-127 (Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma eds. 2012).
2011
Books
- Constitutional Originalism: A Debate (Cornell University Press 2011) (Co-authored by: Lawrence B. Solum).
Articles
- Judicial Review in the United States, Part I, Volume 2011 of Annuario Di Diritto Comparato E Di Studi Legislativi.
2010
Contributions to Books
- Current Electoral College Reform Efforts Among the States in Electoral College Reform: Challenges and Possibilities 187-201 (Gary Bugh ed. 2010).
2009
Books
- Chi Elegge Il Presidente Degli Stati Uniti?: Il Problema Del Collegio Elettorale (translated by Alessandra De Luca ) (Giuffrè Editore 2009).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Electoral College reform at the state level is in the air, How to elect the president: A national debate, (a joint initiative of the San Diego Union-Tribune, MIT’s Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and San Diego University)..
2008
Articles
- Originalism: Lessons From Things That Go Without Saying, 45 San Diego Law Review 645-672 (2008) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.
- Possibilities and Problems in the National Popular Vote Movement, 7 Election Law Journal 181-187 (2008).
Contributions to Books
- Decoding the Electoral College: The History and Controversy of Selecting the President, in Voting In America: How America Votes: Law, Process, And Voter Participation, Volume 1 1-15 (Morgan E. Felchner ed. 2008).
2007
Articles
- Selecting the President: A Bad Idea Out There in California, 2007 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 82 (2007).
- Continuing the Conversation on Faithless Electors, 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Pennumbra 102 (2007).
2006
Books
- Taming The Electoral College (Stanford University Press 2006).
Articles
- A Cautionary Tale: By One Way Of Counting the Democrats’ Hold on the New House of Representatives Will be Very Precarious, 2006 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 5.
- A Dialogue on Originalism Occasioned by Bennett’s Electoral College Reform Ain’t Easy , 2006 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 4 (Co-authored by: Lawrence Solum).
- Electoral College Reform Ain’t Easy , 2006 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 1.
- The Problem of the Faithless Elector: Trouble Aplenty Brewing Just Below the Surface in Choosing the President, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 121-130 (2006).
Contributions to Books
- Compulsion: Death as Different , in Screening Justice—the Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order, And Social Justice (Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster, and Taunya Lovell Banks eds. 2006).
Working Papers
- Electoral College Reform is Heating Up, and Posing Some Tough Choices (February 24, 2006) Northwestern Public Law Research Paper Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=886777.
2005
Contributions to Books
- E-Democracy in the United States, in E-government, The Report of Proceedings of The Fifth Congress of The European Association of Legislation, held in Athens, Greece in November 2002 185 (Ulrich Karpen ed. 2005) .
2004
Articles
- The Peril That Lurks in Even Numbers: Selecting the President, 7 The Green Bag 2d Ser. 113-119 (2004).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Fit to Be Tied, New York Times (August 11, 2004).
2003
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- The Framers on California -- 'What the...?', Newsday, A31 (August 21, 2003) .
- Crying 'Crisis' When There Isn't One, Chicago Tribune (May 20. 2003) .
2002
Books
- Talking It Through: Puzzles of American Democracy (Cornell University Press 2003).
Articles
- Justifying Dynamism, the new electronic journal Issues In Legal Scholarship, Dynamic Statutory Interpretation: Article 4 (2002).
- State Coordination in Popular Election of the President Without a Constitutional Amendment, 5 The Green Bag 2d 141-149 (2002).
Contributions to Books
- Popular Election of the President Without a Constitutional Amendment, in The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000 391-396 (Arthur J. Jacobson and Michel Rosenfeld eds. 2002).
- Evaluation of Legislation for the United States Congress, in Evaluation of Legislation, Proceedings of The Fourth Congress of the European Association of Legislation 44-58 (Ulrich Karpen ed. 2002).
2001
Articles
- Counter-Conversationalism and the Sense of Difficulty, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 845-906 (2001) .
- Response: On Substantiation of Positive Social Theory, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 977-992 (2001) .
- Popular Election of the President Without a Constitutional Amendment, 4 Green Bag 2d 241 (2001) .
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Illinois Justice, the Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens, New York Law Journal (September 11, 2001) .
2000
Articles
- Should Parents Be Given Extra Votes On Account of Their Children?: Toward A Conversational Understanding of American Democracy, 94 Northwestern University Law Review 503-565 (2000).
1999
Contributions to Books
- The Senate of the United States, in Role and Function of The Second Chamber: Proceedings of The European Association of Legislation 141-158 (Ulrich Karpen ed. 1999) .