Alison LaCroix
Assistant Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street Room 404
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-7687
email: lacroix@uchicago.edu

BOOK

A Well-Constructed Union: An Intellectual History of American Federalism (under contract with Harvard University Press)

PUBLICATIONS

"Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty," in Festschrift volume honoring Morton J. Horwitz (Harvard University Press; forthcoming 2008).

Entries on Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Ogden v. Saunders, Encyclopedia of The Supreme Court of the United States (5 vols., Macmillan Reference; forthcoming 2008).

"Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty," University of Chicago Law School Occasional Papers Series (January 2008).

"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic," 2007 Supreme Court Review 345 (2008).

Review of Stephen L. Elkin, Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design After Madison, 26 Law & History Review 203 (2008).

"A Singular and Awkward War: The Transatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention," 6 Am. Nineteenth Century Hist. 3 (2005) (peer-reviewed journal).

"'Bound Fast and Brought Under the Yoke': John Adams and the Regulation of Privacy at the Founding," 72 Fordham L. Rev. 2331 (2004).

"To Gain the Whole World and Lose His Own Soul: Nineteenth-Century American Dueling as Public Law and Private Code," 33 Hofstra L. Rev. 501 (2004).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction, 1802-1835

“A Positive Passion for the Public Good”: Speech and Privacy in the Early American Republic

The Authority for Federalism: Madison’s Negative and the Transition from Imperial to Federal Supremacy

PRESENTATIONS

“The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic,” Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 2008.

“The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic,” American Bar Foundation Research Seminar, Chicago, Ill., January 2008.

“A Positive Passion for the Public Good: Speech and Privacy in the Early American Republic,” Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., September 2007

“Theories of Union: Constructing Confederations, 1774-1777,” Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, May 2007

"Drawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty," American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, Md., November 2006

“An Imperial Presidency? The U.S. Supreme Court and the Extent of Executive Power,” University of Chicago Constitution Day Panel, September 2006

"The Dilemma of Proving a Negative: Imperial Precedents for Federalism in America," Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., April 2005

"A Well-Constructed Union: The Intellectual History of American Federalism," Harvard University History Department Dissertation Prospectus Conference, February 2004

"The Transatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention," Harvard University Nineteenth-Century American History Workshop, October 2002