Alison LaCroix : Publications

Books

A Well-Constructed Union: The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

Book Sections

"Dartmouth College v. Woodward." In Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by David S. Tanenhaus. Macmillan Reference, 2008.

"Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." In Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, edited by Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy. Harvard University Press, 2008.

"Ogden v. Saunders." In Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by David S. Tanenhaus. Macmillan Reference, 2008.

Journal Articles

"The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology." Law and History Review (forthcoming).

Review of Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison, by Stephen Elkin. 26 Law and History Review (2008).

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

"A Singular and Awkward War: The Transatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention." 6 American Nineteenth Century History 3 (2005).

"'Bound Fast and Brought under the Yoke': John Adams and the Regulation of Privacy at the Founding." 72 Fordham Law Review 2331 (2004).

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

Papers

"Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." Occasional Papers from the University of Chicago, the Law School, no. 47. University of Chicago Law School, 2008.

Blog Articles

"Shooting Alone?: The Decline of the Civic Vision of the Second Amendment." Review of A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America, by Saul Cornell. H-LAW, 2007.