Articles, Essays, Books Chapters and Book Reviews

Legal History (American, European, Comparative)
“Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights,” Emory International Law Review 39 (2025): 1113-1170 (with Thomas Jared Farmer) (SSRN) ​
“Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment,” Australian Journal of Law and Religion 4 (2024): 101-114 (with Harold J. Berman) (SSRN) ​ 
“Christianity and Procedural Law,” in John Witte, Jr. and Rafael Domingo, eds., Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 376-378 (with Mathias Schmoeckel) (SSRN)
“‘We Must Obey God Rather Than Men’”: Lutheran Resistance Against Pope and Emperor in the Reformation Era,” in David Gides, ed., Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives (Minneapolis: Lexington Books, 2023), 75-92 (SSRN)
“Natural Law and Natural Rights in the Early Protestant Tradition,” in Tom Angier and Iain Benson, eds., Cambridge Handbook on Natural Law and Natural Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 233-246 (SSRN)
“Foreword,” to Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Rafael Domingo, eds., Law and Christianity in Poland: The Work of Great Jurists (London: Routledge, 2022), ix-xii (​SSRN)
“The Protestant Reformation of Constitutionalism,” in Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh, eds., Christianity and Constitutionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 126-48 (SSRN)
“Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Natural Laws and Rights,” in Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr., eds., Christianity and Global Law (London: Routledge, 2020), 112-126 (SSRN)
“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)
“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) (SSRN)
“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) (SSRN)
“Church, State, and Sex Crimes: What Place for Traditional Sexual Morality in Modern Liberal Societies?” Emory Law Journal 68 (2019): 837-865 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“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 (​SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“Luther the Lawyer: The Lutheran Reformation of Law, Politics, and Society,” Law and Justice: A Christian Law Review 178 (2017): 6-36 (SSRN)
“Martin Luther’s Influence on Legal Reforms and Civil Law,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (March, 2017) (SSRN)
“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) (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
​“A New Magna Carta for the Early Modern Common Law: An 800th Anniversary Essay,” Journal of Law and Religion 30 (2015): 428-445 (Chinese Translation) (SSRN)
“Trattato di Westfalia (1648),” in Alarico Mariana Marini and Umberto Vincenti, eds., Le carte storiche dei diritti (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2013), 29-38 (SSRN)
“In Memory of David J. Bederman (1961-2011),” Emory Law Magazine (Summer 2012): 16-17 (SSRN)
“Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty,” in John M. Owen and Judd Owen, eds., Religion, The Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 140-173 (SSRN) ​
​Modern Classics Review of Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300, Journal of Church and State 51 (2009): 341-344 (SSRN)
“Preface,” to Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr., eds., To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ix-xiv (SSRN) 
“Confessions of a Christian Historian,” First Things 139 (Jan. 2004): 16-17 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
​“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 (SSRN)
“‘A Page of History Is Worth a Volume of Logic’: Charting the Legal Pilgrimage of Public Religion in America," in Edith Blumhofer, ed., Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002), 44-61 (SSRN) 
“Review of R.H. Helmholz, The Spirit of the Classical Canon Law (1996),” Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001): 367-370 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“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 (SSRN)
“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.) (SSRN)
“‘A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion': John Adams and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution,” Journal of Church and State 41 (1999): 213-252 (SSRN)
"Moderate Religionsfreiheit in der Theologie Johannes Calvins,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung (Kanonisches Abteilung) 114 (Spring, 1997): 401-448
“Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin,” Calvin Theological Journal 31 (1996): 359-403 (SSRN)
“Review of Leonard W. Levy, Blasphemy (1993),” The Christian Century 112 (1995): 89-91 (SSRN)
“The Catholic Origins and Calvinist Orientation of Dutch Reformed Church Law,” Calvin Theological Journal 28 (1993): 328-351 (SSRN)
"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 (SSRN)
"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
"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)