Lewis Henry LaRue

Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Our Liberty under the Privileges and Immunities Clauses (I have presented a faculty workshop at Washington and Lee and at Boston College on different parts of this topic; my drafts need expansion and revision.)

The Fairie Queene and Justice (to be co-authored with Edwin Craun) (both Craun and I made extensive notes while we went over Book V line by line; we have now begun the process of writing up our conclusions).

Proof (a normative study of lawyers' practice in combining client narratives with scientific evidence) (an outline is complete, with drafts of some sections).

Plato's Gorgias: A Translation and Commentary (a draft of the entire dialogue is complete, but in need of corrections).

Guide to the Study of Law: An Introduction (Matthew Bender 2d ed. 2001).

A Student's Guide to the Study of Law: An Introduction (Matthew Bender & Co. 1987, reprinted 1997).

Constitutional Law as Fiction: Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority (Pennsylvania State University Press 1995).

Wilfred J. Ritz, Rewriting the History of the Judiciary Act of 1789: Exposing Myths, Challenging Premises, and Using New Evidence (Wythe Holt & L. H. LaRue eds., University of Oklahoma Press 1990).

Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Watergate Affair (University of Georgia Press 1988).

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Motives for Idealizing the Pragmatic, 52 Vill. L. Rev. 843 (2007). (Available at: Lexis)

Solomon's Judgement: A Short Essay on Proof, 3 Law, Probability and Risk, March 2004, at 13. (Available at: Lexis; Oxford Univ. Press)

A Non-Romantic View of Expert Testimony, 35 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2004). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and David S. Caudill) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Why Judges Applying the Daubert Trilogy Need to Know About the Social, Institutional, and Rhetorical--and Not Just the Methodological--Aspects of Science, 45 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (2003). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and David S. Caudill) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Speaking Outdoors, 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1135 (2003). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Post-Trilogy Science in the Courtroom, Part II: What Are the Judges Still Doing?, 15 J. Civ. Litig. 1 (2003). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and David S. Caudill)

A Tribute to Andrew W. McThenia, Jr., 58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 8 (2001). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Post-Trilogy Science in the Courtroom: What Are the Judges Doing?, 13 J. Civ. Litig. 341 (2001).

Discovering a Judicial Story, 5 Law/Text/Culture 327 (2001). (Available at: Lexis)

The Story About Clinton's Impeachment, 63 Law & Contemp. Probs., Winter/Spring 2000, at 193. (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

How Not to Imitate John Marshall, 56 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 819 (1999). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Writing Across the Margins, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 943 (1996). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Telling Stories about Constitutional Law, at Texas Tech School of Law, Lubbock, Texas (February 6, 1995); published, 26 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1275 (1995).

A Dedication to Randall P. Bezanson, 52 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 709 (1995). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Telling Stories About Constitutional Law, 26 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1275 (1995). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Probability and Proof in State v. Skipper: An Internet Exchange, 35 Jurimetrics J. 277 (1995). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and Ronald J. Allen et al.) (An edited version of messages sent to an Internet discussion list.) (Available at: Westlaw)

"Neither Force Nor Will," 12 Const. Comment. 179 (1995) (Symposium: Constitutional Stupidities). (reprinted in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies 57 (W. N. Eskridge, Jr. & S. Levinson eds., New York University Press 1998).) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Discriminatory Intent, 1 Race & Ethnic Anc. L. Dig. 17 (1995). (Available at: Westlaw)

West on Story and Theory, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 1786 (1994) (reviewing Robin West, Narrative, Authority, and Law (1993)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Problem of Theory in Poethics, 15 Cardozo L. Rev. 1093 (1994) (reviewing Richard Weisberg, Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law and Literature (1992)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Suggestions Toward Reading/Teaching Plato's Gorgias, 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 317 (1994). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

For the Civil Practitioner: Review of Fourth Circuit Opinions in Civil Cases Decided November 1, 1991 Through December 31, 1992: VIII - Federal Courts, 50 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 234 (1993) (The Fourth Circuit Review). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Stories Versus Theories at the Cardozo Evidence Conference: It's Just Another Metaphor to Me, 14 Cardozo L. Rev. 121 (1992). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Dissecting Interpretation, 68 Tex. L. Rev. 1073 (1990) (reviewing Sanford Levinson & Steven Mailloux eds., Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader (1988)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Paradox and Interpretation, 1 Cardozo Stud. L. & Literature 97 (1989).

Constitutional Law and Constitutional History, 36 Buff. L. Rev. 373 (1988). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Beyond Liberal Constitutionalism, 39 Harv. L. Bull., Autumn 1987, at 38 (1987) (reviewing Lloyd L. Weinreb, Natural Law and Justice (1987)).

Statutory Interpretation: Lord Coke Revisited, 48 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 733 (1987). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Portrayal of Law in Literature: Weisberg's Failure of the Word, 1986 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 313 (reviewing Richard H. Weisberg, The Failure of the Word (1984)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Teaching Legal Ethics by Negative Example: John Dean's Blind Ambition, 10 Legal Stud. F. 315 (1986).

Posner on Literature, 85 Mich. L. Rev. 325 (1986). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Hohfeldian Rights and Fundamental Rights, 35 U. Toronto L. J. 86 (1985). (Available at: JSTOR)

The Continuing Presence of Dred Scott, 42 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 57 (1985). (Available at: Hein-Online)

My Thoughts About Our Dean, 40 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 3 (1983) (Dedication: Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr.). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Courts and the Government, 44 Rev. Pol. 474 (1982) (reviewing Richard Neely, How Courts Govern America (1981)).

The Rhetoric of Powell's Bakke, 38 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 43 (1981). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Living with Gertz: A Practical Look at Constitutional Libel Standards, 67 Va. L. Rev. 287 (1981). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

The Right of a Mental Patient to Refuse Antipsychotic Drugs in an Institution, 4 Law & Psychol. Rev. 43 (1978). (with Lewis Henry LaRuen and L. D. Gaughan)

Politics and the Constitution, 86 Yale L. J. 1011 (1977). (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Law of Fogel v. Chestnutt: An Historical Analysis, 5 Sec. Reg. L.J. 56 (1977). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and J. G. Deutsch)

Federalism and the Law of Securities Regulation: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, 34 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 799 (1977). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and J. G. Deutsch) (Available at: Hein-Online)

A Jury of One's Peers, 33 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 841 (1976). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Justiciability and Mental Health, 32 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 347 (1975). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Coping With Angry Clients and Police, 2 Student Law., No. 4, at 22 (1973).

A Comment on Fried, Summers, and the Value of Life, 57 Cornell L. Rev. 621 (1972). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Interstate Cooperation and an Interstate Judiciary, 27 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1 (1970). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Reviews

The Self That Governs, 5 Green Bag 2d 225 (2002) (reviewing Jed Rubenfeld, Freedom and Time: A Theory of Constitutional Self-Government (2001)). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 23 Ga. L. Rev. 1171 (1989) (reviewing Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation (1988)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 98 Ethics 846 (1988) (reviewing Aulis Aarnio, The Rational as Reasonable: A Treatise on Legal Justification (1987)). (Available at: JSTOR)

What is the Text in Constitutional Law: Does It Include Thoreau?, 20 Ga. L. Rev. 1137 (1986). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Bureaucratic State Bourgeoisie, 46 Rev. Pol. 475 (1984) (reviewing Donald C. Hodges, The Bureaucratization of Socialism (1981)).

Book Review, 9 Hist. Pol. Econ. 449 (1977) (reviewing Graeme Duncan, Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony (1973)).

Book Review, 16 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 293 (1972) (reviewing A. Arthur Schiller, An American Experience in Roman Law: Writings From Publications in the United States Constitution (1971)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Review, 31 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 809 (1974) (reviewing Oscar Newman, Defensible Space (1972)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Review, 25 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 142 (1968) (reviewing Pamela Hansford Johnson, On Inquity (1967)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

Talking About the Constitution Outside of Court, at a colloquium, Georgia State Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (January 31, 2003).

Some Possibilities for Using Sampling to Detect Error Rates in Election Law, presented to the ASA Panel on Election, at the American Statistical Association, Atlanta, Georgia (August 5, 2001). (In New York City (August 11, 2002), at follow up meeting, we discussed how to incorporate these matters into an official report for the Association.)

Comparing the Constitutional Lawyer's "Interpretation" With Eric Voegelin's Concept of "Representation", presented at the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California (September 1, 2001).

Policy Issues in Counting Votes: Another Look at Bush v. Gore, at a faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (November 12, 2001), and at a faculty colloquium, Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York (April 15, 2002).

Sensational Cases and False Convictions, at an Alumni College, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia (July 10, 2000).

Was King Solomon's Judgment Correct?, at a faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (September 18, 2000).

John Randolph Tucker's Brief in the Chicago Anarchist Case, at a faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (March 22, 1999).

What Happened to the Constitution When You Weren't Looking?, at a faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (February 26, 1998).

The Privileges and Immunities Clauses, at a faculty workshop, Boston College School of Law, Newton, Massachusetts (March 20, 1998).

An Overview of Contemporary Jurisprudence, at the Notre Dame Colloquium on Legal Discourse, Notre Dame, Indiana (July 31, 1998); repeated at a faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (September 7, 1998).

On Not Imitating Marshall, a commentary on Gordon Wood's Holmes Devise Lecture, Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia (October 9, 1998); published, 56 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 819 (1999). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Law as Literature: Comparing the Merchant of Venice and the Eleventh Amendment, at a Continuing Legal Education program of the Virginia Bar Association, Lexington, Virginia (September 20, 1997).

Reading Legal Texts as Though They Were (Are?) Literary Texts, before a panel of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California (March 15, 1996).

The Congress and Richard Nixon: Testing the Limits, at the 1996 Woodrow Wilson Spring Forum, Stanton, Virginia (March 22, 1996).

Reading Law As Though It Were Fiction, to the Board of Trustee's Spouses, Lexington, Virginia (February 24, 1995).

Roman Law in the Career of Cicero, to an Alumni College, Lexington, Virginia (August 12, 1995).

Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer", to an Alumni College, Lexington, Virginia (October 14, 1995).

Writing Across the Margins, at a conference on my book, "Constitutional Law as Fiction," Lexington, Virginia (November 3, 1995); published, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 943 (1996).

Sophocles' Antigone, at an Alumni College, Lexington, Virginia (November 4, 1994).

Melville's Billy Budd, at an Alumni College, Lexington, Virginia (October 15, 1993).

Presidential Standards of Conduct, at the Annual Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Constitutional Issues Seminar, Morganton, N.C. (April 20, 1993).

Plato's Gorgias: An Edition for Lawyers, Politicians and Others Who Persuade (1991) (113 pp., multilithed).

The Limits to Theory in Law and Literature, at the American Culture Association Annual Meeting (May 9, 1990).

Socrates and Civil Disobedience, at the American Culture Association Annual Meeting (May 10, 1990).

Law and Literature, at the Judicial Conference for the Seventh Circuit of the United States (May 10, 1988).

Property and Class, Roundtable, the Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Minnesota (April 23, 1987).

The Constitution: Will It Survive?, 62 Wash. & Lee Alumni Mag., No. 5, at 9 (1987).

The Nonsense of the Brennan-Meese Debate, the Roanoke Bar Association (March 11, 1986).

A Statutory Supplement for Federal Jurisdiction (1986) (53 pp., multilithed). (with Lewis Henry LaRue and Wythe Holt)

The Constitution and the Military, at a conference of high school teachers, held at the Virginia Military Institute (June 17, 1985).

Fifteen Years is Enough: Why Should Judges Serve for Life, Wash. Post, Outlook Section, D-7 (Sunday, Oct. 7, 1984).

Problems of Legislation (3rd ed. 1984) (503 pp., multilithed).

The Law: A Guardian of, or a Threat to, Liberty: The Need for Civil Disobedience, Senior Symposium, Lynchburg College (October, 1982).

Watergate: What Was All of That Talk About the Rule of Law, to the faculty of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario (November, 1982).

Reading Cases and Doing History, to the graduate students of Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (Ontario, November 1982).

Cases and Materials on Civil Liberties (1981) (930 pp., multilithed).

Fiction

Solomon's Judgment: A Short Essay on Proof, at a conference, Cardozo Law School, New York, New York (April 27, 2003).