Articles:

The Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause
68 U. Chi. L. Rev. 101 (2001)

A Law Professor's Guide to Natural Law and Natural Rights
20 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 655 (1997)

Coping With Partiality: Justice, The Rule of Law, and the Role of Lawyers
3 ROGER WILLIAMS LAW REVIEW 1 (1997)

Was Slavery Unconstitutional Before the Thirteenth Amendment? Lysander Spooner's Theory of Interpretation
28 PACIFIC LAW JOURNAL 977 (1997)

Necessary and Proper
44 U.C.L.A. LAW REVIEW 745 (1997)
in THE SUPREME COURT AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, Rowman & Littlefield, (1998)

The Death of Reliance
46 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 518 (1996)

Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment (coauthor)
45 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1139 (1996)

Getting Even: Restitution, Preventive Detention, and the Crime-Tort Distinction
in "Symposium on the Crime-Tort Distinction"
76 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 157 (1996)

Getting Normative: The Role of Natural Rights in Constitutional Adjudication
12 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 93 (1995);

. . . and Contractual Consent
in "Symposium on Default Rules and Contractual Consent"
3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW REVIEW 421 (1994)

The Intersection of Natural Rights and Positive Constitutional Law
in "Commentary on Frederick Shauer's Constitutional Positivism"
25 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 853 (1993)

Implementing the Ninth Amendment
Introduction to THE RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE: THE HISTORY AND MEANING OF THE NINTH AMENDMENT—VOLUME TWO (Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1993)

Rational Bargaining Theory and Contract: Default Rules, Hypothetical Consent, the Duty to Disclose, and Fraud
in "Symposium on Risks and Wrongs"
15 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 783 (1992)

Conflicting Visions: A Critique of Ian Macneil's Relational Theory of Contract
78 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1175 (1992)

The Sound of Silence: Default Rules and Contractual Consent
78 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 821 (1992)

The Function of Several Property and Freedom of Contract
in "Symposium on Economic Rights"
9 SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY 62 (1992)

A Ninth Amendment for Today's Constitution
26 VALPARAISO LAW REVIEW 419 (1991); and in
THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN MODERN AMERICA: AFTER 200 YEARS
(D. Bodenhamer & J. Ely, eds) Indiana University Press, 1993

Compensation and Rights in the Liberal Conception of Justice
in COMPENSATORY JUSTICE: NOMOS XXXIII
(J. Chapman & J. Coleman, eds.) New York University Press, 1991

The Virtues of Redundancy in Legal Thought
in "Symposium on the Practical Applications of Jurisprudential Thought"
38 CLEVELAND-STATE LAW REVIEW 153 (1990)

Reconceiving the Ninth Amendment
74 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1 (1988)

Squaring Undisclosed Agency Law With Contract Theory
75 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1969 (1987)

Beyond Reliance: Promissory Estoppel, Contract Formalities and Misrepresentation (with Mary Becker, University of Chicago Law School)
15 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 445 (1987)
Excerpted in CASES AND MATERIALS ON CONTRACTS 2d ed. (R. Hamilton & A. Rau, eds.) West Publishing Co., 1992

Curing the Drug Law Addiction: The Hidden Side-Effects of Legal Prohibition
in DEALING WITH DRUGS (R. Hamowy, ed.) Lexington Books, 1987
Reprinted in DRUGS: SHOULD WE LEGALIZE, DECRIMINALIZE, OR DEREGULATE? (Jeffrey A. Schaler, ed.) Prometheus Books (forthcoming 1998)

Contract Remedies and Inalienable Rights
in "Symposium on Philosophy and Law"
4 SOCIAL POLICY AND PHILOSOPHY 179 (1986)

A Consent Theory of Contract
86 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 269 (1986)

Pursuing Justice in a Free Society:

Part One - Power vs. Liberty
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS, Summer/Fall 1985, at 50.
Part Two - Crime Prevention and the Legal Order CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS, Winter/Spring 1986, at 30.

Resolving the Dilemma of the Exclusionary Rule:
An Application of Restitutive Principles of Justice
32 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 937 (1983)

The Justice of Restitution
25 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE 117 (1980)

Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice
87 ETHICS 279 (1977)

Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process (coauthor with John Hagel III)
in ASSESSING THE CRIMINAL: RESTITUTION, RETRIBUTION AND THE LEGAL PROCESS, (R. Barnett & J. Hagel III, eds.) Ballinger Publishing Co., 1977

Foreword Author and/or Symposium Editor:

SYMPOSIUM: "W(H)ITHER THE RELIANCE INTEREST?": FOREWORD Is Reliance Still Dead?
38 San Diego L. Rev. 1 (2001)

Guns, Militias and Oklahoma City
in "Symposium on the Second Amendment"
62 TENNESSEE LAW REVIEW 433 (1995)

The Power of Presumptions
in "Symposium on Presumptions and Burdens of Proof"
17 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 613 (1994)

Unenumerated Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law
in "Symposium on Rules and the Rule of Law"
14 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 615 (1991)

Post-Chicago Law and Economics
in "Symposium on Post-Chicago Law and Economics"
65 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 3 (1989) (co-editor with Jules Coleman, Yale Law School)

Of Chickens and Eggs—The Compatibility of Moral Rights and Consequentialist Analyses
in "Symposium on the Compatability of Moral Rights and Consequentialism"
12 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 611 (1989)

The Ninth Amendment and Constitutional Legitimacy
in "Symposium on Interpreting the Ninth Amendment"
64 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 37 (1988)

Can Justice and the Rule of Law Be Reconciled?
in "Symposium on Law and Philosophy"
11 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 597 (1988)

Judicial Conservatism v. A Principled Judicial Activism
in "Symposium on Law and Philosophy"
10 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 273 (1987)

Four Senses of the Public Law - Private Law Distinction
in "Symposium on the Limits of Public Law"
9 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 267 (1986)

Why We Need Legal Philosophy
in "Symposium on Law and Philosophy"
8 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 1 (1985)

Review Essays:

Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition and The Weakness of Public Policy
Reviewing AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR by Stephen Duke & Albert Gross
103 YALE LAW JOURNAL 2593 (1994)

Contract Scholarship and The Reemergence of Legal Philosophy
Reviewing CONTRACTS by E. Allan Farnsworth
97 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1223 (1984)

Public Decisions and Private Rights
Reviewing THE HARDEST DRUG by John Kaplan
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS, Summer/Fall, 1984, at 50

Essays and Comments:

Free to Choose
21 SEATTLE LAW REVIEW 721 (1998)

The Relevance of Framers' Intent
in "Symposium on Originalism"
19 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 403 (1996)

Beyond the Moot Law Review: A Short Story With a Happy Ending
in "Symposium on Law Review Editing: The Struggle Between Author and Editor Over Control of the Text"
70 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 123 (1994)

Reinventing the First Amendment
in ETHICS AND THE UNIVERSITY: COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY AND MORALITY IN THE AMERICAN ACADEMY
(M. N.S. Sellers, ed.) Berg Publishers 163, 1994

Some Problems With Contract as Promise
77 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1022 (1992)

The Ninth Amendment
in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
(K. Hall, ed.) Oxford University Press 589, 1992

The Internal and External Analysis of Concepts
Comment on Peter Benson's, "Abstract Right and the Possibility of a Nondistributive Conception of Contract: Hegel and Contemporary Contract Theory"
11 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 525 (1990)

Two Conceptions of the Ninth Amendment
12 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 29 (1989)

Are Enumerated Constitutional Rights The Only Rights We Have? The Case of Associational Freedom
10 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 101 (1987)

Book Reviews:

Review of TAKINGS: PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN
by Richard Epstein, 97 ETHICS 669 (1987)