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Legal History (American, European, Comparative)

“Preface and Acknowledgements” to Mathias Schmoeckel and John Witte, Jr., eds., Great Christian Jurists in German History (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020), ix-xiv (with Mathias Schmoeckel)

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“Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington and the Struggle for ‘Sacred Human Rights’ Against Slavery,” Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 31 (2020): 205-271 (with Justin Latterell) 

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“The Last American Establishment: Massachusetts, 1780-1833,” in Carl H. Esbeck and Jonathan Den Hartog, eds., Religious Dissent and Disestablishment: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 (Columbia, MS: University of Missouri Press, 2019), 399-424 (with Justin Latterell)

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“Church, State, and Sex Crimes: What Place for Traditional Sexual Morality in Modern Liberal Societies?” Emory Law Journal 68 (2019): 837-865

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“Law and the Protestant Reformation,” in Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus Dubber & Mark Godfrey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 583-610

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“The Universal Rule of Natural and Written Constitutions in the Thought of Johannes Althusius,” in Janne Nijman and Tony Carty, eds., Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a Rule of Law for World Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 167-186

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“Founding Principles, Secular Skeptics, and Religious Freedom -- Review of Kathleen A. Brady, The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence (2015),” Journal of Law and Religion 32 (2018): 515-18

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“Luther the Lawyer: The Lutheran Reformation of Law, Politics, and Society,” Law and Justice: A Christian Law Review 178 (2017): 6-36

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“Martin Luther’s Influence on Legal Reforms and Civil Law,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (March, 2017)

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“The Integrative Christian Jurisprudence of John Selden,” in R.H. Helmholz and Mark Hill, eds., Great Christian Jurists in English History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 139-61 (with Harold J. Berman)

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“Editorial Preface,” in John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, and Anna di Robilant, eds., Texts and Contents in Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (Berkeley, CA: The Robbins Collection, 2016), xv-xix

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“Prosecuting Polygamy in Early Modern England,” in John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, and Anna di Robilant, eds., Texts and Contents in Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (Berkeley, CA: The Robbins Collection, 2016), 429-448

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“Toward a New Magna Carta for Early Modern England,” in Robin Griffith-Jones and Mark Hill, eds., Magna Carta, Religion, and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 109-135

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​“A New Magna Carta for the Early Modern Common Law: An 800th Anniversary Essay,” Journal of Law and Religion 30 (2015): 428-445

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“In Memory of David J. Bederman (1961-2011),” Emory Law Magazine (Summer 2012): 16-17

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​Modern Classics Review of Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300, Journal of Church and State 51 (2009): 341-344

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“Confessions of a Christian Historian,” First Things 139 (Jan. 2004): 16-17

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“One Public Religion, Many Private Religions: John Adams and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution,” in Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark D. Hall, and Jeffery R. Morrison, eds., The Founders on God and Government (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 23-52 

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​“An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the Common Good,” in David M. Whitford, ed., Caritas et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of Carter Lindberg (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2002), 73-87

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“Review of R.H. Helmholz, The Spirit of the Classical Canon Law (1996),” Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001): 367-370

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“Review of Daniel L. Dreisbach, Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate (1997),” Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001): 565-568

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“Canon Law in Lutheran Germany: A Surprising Case of Legal Transplantation,” in Michael Hoeflich, ed., Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press-Robbins Collection, 2000), 181-224

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“In the Steps of Gratian: Writing the History of Canon Law in the 1990s,” Emory Law Journal 48 (1999): 647-688 (with Charles J. Reid, Jr.)

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“‘A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion': John Adams and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution,” Journal of Church and State 41 (1999): 213-252 

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"Moderate Religionsfreiheit in der Theologie Johannes Calvins,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung (Kanonisches Abteilung) 114 (Spring, 1997): 401-448

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“Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin,” Calvin Theological Journal 31 (1996): 359-403

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“Review of Leonard W. Levy, Blasphemy (1993),” The Christian Century 112 (1995): 89-91

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“The Catholic Origins and Calvinist Orientation of Dutch Reformed Church Law,” Calvin Theological Journal 28 (1993): 328-351

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"The Plight of Canon Law in the Early Dutch Republic," in R.H. Helmholz, ed., Canon Law in Protestant Lands (Berlin: Dunker & Humbolt, 1992), 135-164

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"Towards an Understanding of Bracton on Kingship," in The Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 5 (May, 1982): 1-19

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"The Medieval Development of Roman Law and Canon Law on Natural Law Foundations," in The Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 4 (January, 1982): 1-42, 77-93 (with Darrell J. Stremler)

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