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Books
- Property (Aspen Pub. 6th ed. 2022) (with Nestor M. Davidson)
- Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices (Aspen Pub., 8th ed. 2022) (with Bethany R. Berger, Nestor M. Davidson, & Eduardo Moisés Peñalver)
- Choice of Law: Patterns, Arguments, Practices (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
- Persuasion: Getting to the Other Side (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
- No Freedom Without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis (Yale University Press, 2015)
- Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (on Executive Board of the Board of Authors and Editors) (Nell Newton et al. eds., LexisNexis, 2012)(Supplement 2019)
- The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000)
- Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000)
Articles
- Against Choice-of-Law Clauses, — Willamette L. Rev. — (2024)
- Shopping While Queer: Public Accommodations Law After Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative, — Suffolk U. L. Rev. — (forthcoming 2024)
- Conflict of Abortion Laws, 16 Ne. U. L. Rev. 313 (2024)
- The Right to Have Property, 10 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 401 (2023)
- Hobbes & Hanging: Personal Jurisdiction v. Choice of Law, 64 Ariz. L. Rev. 1 (2022)
- Essential Property, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 605 (2022)(with Timothy M. Mulvaney)
- The Lands Were Not Empty, 2 Am. J. of Law & Equality 285 (2022)
- Religious Liberty and Public Accommodations: What Would Hohfeld Say? in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries 478 (eds. Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman, & Henry E. Smith) (Cambridge U. Press, 2022)
- Everyone Should Have Some: Inclusion & Equity in Property Law, in INTEGRATING DOCTRINE AND DIVERSITY: INCLUSION & EQUITY IN THE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM 75 (Nicole P. Dyszlewski et al., eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2021)
- Surveying Choice of Law: Twenty Years of Choice-of-Law Surveys by Symeon C. Symeonides, Symeon C. Symeonides, CHOICE OF LAW IN PRACTICE: A TWENTY-YEAR REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES (3 vol.), vol. 1 at xv (Brill Nijhoff2020)
- Democratic Property, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON PRIVATE LAW THEORIES 220(Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky, eds., 2020)
- Choice of Law Rules, 50 Cumberland L. Rev. 101 (2020)
- Public Accommodations & Human Flourishing: Sexual Orientation & Religious Liberty (An Essay in Honor of Greg Alexander), 29 Cornell J. of Law & Pub. Pol’y 697 (2020)
- Public Rights, 38 Law & History Rev. 621 (2020)
- Things Invisible to See: State Action and Private Property, 5 Tex. A&M L. Rev.. 439 (2018) (co-authored with Isaac Saidel-Goley)
- Indian Nations and the Constitution,70 Me. L. Rev. 199 (2018)
- Move along to where? Property in service of democracy (A Tribute to André van der Walt),in TRANSFORMATIVE PROPERTY LAW: FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOUR OF AJ VD WALT 1 (Juta 2018) (co-authored with Timothy M. Mulvaney)
- Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, 10 Albany Gov’t L. Rev. 1 (2017)
- Property and Sovereignty Imbricated: Why Religion Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, 18 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 519 (2017)
- Anti Anti-Paternalism, 50 N. Eng. L. Rev. 101 (2016)
- Should We Call Ahead? Property, Democracy, & the Rule of Law, 5 Brigham-Kanner Property Conf. J. 1 (2016)
- Justifying Regulatory Takings, 41 O.N. U. L. Rev. 601 (2015)
- Multistate Justice; Better Law, Comity, and Fairness in the Conflict of Laws, 2015 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1923
- We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here; Public Accommodations and the Mark of Sodom, 95 B.U. L. Rev. 929 (2015)
- Problem Solving for First Year Law Students, 7 Elon L. Rev. 413 (2015) (with Todd D. Rakoff)
- Property Law Conflicts, 54 Washburn L.J. 129 (2014)
- Private Law Realism, 1 Critical Analysis of Law: An Intl. & Interdisciplinary L. Rev. 226 (2014) (review of Hanoch Dagan, Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2014)), http://cal.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cal/article/view/22114/17957
- Justice Breyer, Grokster, and the Four Chords Song, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 483 (2014)
- The Indian States of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty, 38 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2014)
- Property as the Law of Democracy, 63 Duke L. J. 1287 (2014)
- Foreclosure and the Failures of Formality, Or Subprime Mortgage Conundrums and How to Fix Them, 46 Conn. L. Rev. 497 (2013)
- Tribal Sovereignty and Human Rights,2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 307 (2013)
- The Rule of Reason in Property Law, 46 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1369 -(2013), [excerpted in Property Law Perspectives II, 251 (Bram Akermans, Ernst Marais & Eveline Ramaekers eds.) (Intersentia, 2013)]
- Titles of Nobility: Property, Poverty, and Immigration in a Free and Democratic Society, 1 J. L. Prop. & Soc’y 1. (2014), http://alps.syr.edu/journal/2014/08/JLPS-2014-08-Singer.pdf
- Subprime: Why a Free and Democratic Society Needs Law, 47 Harv. C.R.–C.L. L. Rev. 141 (2012).
- Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy [The Fourth in the Wolf Family Lecture Series on the American Law of Real Property] 11-1 Powell on Real Property (2011)
- The Reliance Interest in Property Revisited, 7 Unbound 79 (2011), http://www.legalleft.org/2011/12/singer/
- The Anti-Apartheid Principle in American Property Law, 1 Ala. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 83 (2011)
- Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity, 86 Ind. L. J. 763 (2011)
- Property Law and the Mortgage Crisis: Libertarian Fantasies and Subprime Realities, 1 Prop. L. Rev. 7 (2011)
- Erasing Indian Country: The Story of Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States, in Indian Law Stories (Philip Frickey, Carole Goldberg & Kevin Washburn, eds.)(2011)
- In Favor of Foxes: Pluralism as Fact and Aid to the Pursuit of Justice, 90 B.U. L. Rev. 903 (2010)(with Martha Minow)
- Normative Methods for Lawyers, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 899 (2009)
- Critical Normativity, 20 Law & Critique 27 (2009)
- A Statement of Progressive Property, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 743 (2009)(with Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver, Laura S. Underkuffler)
- Democratic Estates: Property Law in a Free and Democratic Society, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 1009 (2009)
- How Property Norms Construct the Externalities of Ownership, in Property and Community (Gregory S. Alexander & Eduardo Peñalver eds.) (2010)
- Economic Regulation and the Rule of Law: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society, 48 Judges J. 4 (2009)
- Corporate Responsibility in a Free and Democratic Society, 58 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1031 (2008)
- Things That We Would Like to Take for Granted: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society, 2 Harv. L & Pol’y Rev. 139 (2008)
- Book Review: Johan van der Walt, Law and Sacrifice: Toward Post-Apartheid Theory of Law, 15 Soc. & Leg. Stud. 605 (2006)
- After the Flood: Equality and Humanity in Property Regimes, 52 Loy. L. Rev. 101 (2006)
- Nine-Tenths of the Law: Title, Possession, and Sacred Obligations, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 605 (2006)
- The Ownership Society: Regulatory Takings and Just Obligations, 30 Harv. Envtl. L.J. 309 (2006)
- Double Bind: Indian Nations v. the Supreme Court, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 1 (2005)
- Symposium Foreword: Indian Nations & the Law, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2005)
- Same Sex Marriage, Full Faith and Credit, and the Evasion of Obligation, 1 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 1 (2005)
- Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule, (co-authored with Joseph P. Kalt) (Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, & Univ. of Ariz. Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy, 2004)
- Canons of Conquest: The Supreme Court’s Attack on Tribal Sovereignty, 37 N. Eng. L. Rev. 641 (2003)
- Lone Wolf, Or How to Take Property By Calling it a “Mere Change in the Form of Investment”, 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 37 (2002)
- Something Important in Humanity, 37 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 103 (2002)
- Starting Property, 46 St. Louis U. L.J. 565 (2002)
- Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain: The Place of Better Law in a Third Restatement of Conflicts, 75 Ind. L. Rev. 117 (2000)
- Property and Social Relations: From Title to Entitlement, in Property and Values: Striking an Equitable Balance of Public and Private Interests (Charles Geisler ed. 2000)
- The Stranger Who Resides With You: Ironies of Asian American and American Indian Legal History, 40 B.C. L. Rev. /19 B.C. Third World L.J. 171 (1998)
- Property, in The Politics of Law (David Kairys ed., 3d ed. 1998)
- Rent, 39 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (1997)
- Property and Equality: Public Accommodations and the Constitution in South Africa and the United States, 12 South African J. Public L. 53 (1997)
- Justice and the Conflict of Laws, 48 Mercer L. Rev. 831 (1997)
- No Right to Exclude: Public Accommodations and Private Property, 90 Nw. U. L. Rev.1283 (1996)
- Property and Social Relations: From Title to Entitlement, in Property Law on the Threshold of the 21st Century 69 (G.E. van Maanen & A.J. van der Walt eds.)(1996)
- Publicity Rights and the Conflict of Laws: Tribal Court Jurisdiction in the Crazy Horse Case, 41 S.D. L. Rev. 1 (1996)
- Conference on Jurisdiction, Justice, and Choice of Law for the Twenty-First Century: Case Four: Choice of Law Theory, 29 New Eng. L. Rev. 692 (1995)
- Remembering What Hurts Us Most: A Critique of the American Indian Law Deskbook, 24 N.M. L. Rev. 315 (1994)
- Well Settled?: The Increasing Weight of History in American Indian Land Claims, 28 Ga. L. Rev. 481 (1994)
- Jobs and Justice: Rethinking the Stakeholder Debate, 43 U. Toronto L.J. 475 (1993)
- The Social Origins of Property, 6 Can. J.L. & Juris. 217 (1993)(with Jack M. Beermann)
- Re-Reading Property, 26 N. Eng. L. Rev. 711 (1992)
- Sovereignty and Property, 86 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (1991)
- Facing Real Conflicts, 24 Cornell Int’l L.J. 197 (1991)
- The Continuing Conquest: American Indian Nations, Property Law, and Gunsmoke, Reconstruction 97 (vol. 1, no. 3, 1991)
- A Pragmatic Guide to Conflicts, 70 B.U. L. Rev. 731 (1990)
- Property and Coercion in Federal Indian Law: The Conflict between Critical and Complacent Pragmatism, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1821 (1990)
- Baseline Questions in Legal Reasoning: The Example of Property in Jobs (with Jack Beermann), 23 Ga. L. Rev. 911 (1989)
- Persuasion, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2442 (1989)
- Real Conflicts, 69 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (1989)
- Why Should Lawyers Care About Philosophy?, 1989 Duke L.J. 1752
- Legal Realism Now, 76 Calif. L. Rev. 467 (1988)
- The Reliance Interest in Property, 40 Stan. L. Rev. 611 (1988)
- Radical Moderation, 1985 Am. B. Found. Research J. 329
- The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory, 94 Yale L.J. 1 (1984).
- Catcher in the Rye Jurisprudence, 35 Rutgers L. Rev. 275 (1983).
- The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975.
Blog Entries
- Why Religion is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, GLAD (Legal Advocates & Defenders for the LGBTQ Community) (July 13, 2016)
- Regulation is Just Another Word for Law, N.Y. Times Opinion Pages, Room for Debate (Nov. 10, 2015)