Articles
Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Ancient Customs: Modern Dilemmas, 1 The Verdict 43 (2009)
Indigenous people have a variety of complex relationships to law in nations such as Australia,...
Rebuilding the Slaughter-House: the Cases' Support for Civil Rights, Akron Law Review (2009)
The Slaughter-House Cases have a bad reputation for good reason. Justice Miller’s narrow reading of...
Mr. Justice Miller's Clause: the Privileges or Immunities of Citizens of the United States Internationally, 56 Drake Law Review 1051 (2008)
Justice Miller’s list in the Slaughter-House Cases of privileges or immunities of citizens of the...
Why the Supreme Court Lied about Plessy, 52 Villanova Law Review 411 (2007)
This article examines the citation in Plessy of a dozen cases that the Court said...
The Market Participant Doctrine and the Clear Statement Rule, 29 Seattle University Law Review 543 (2005)
This paper argues that the market participant exception to the dormant commerce clause reflects the...
Precursors of Rosa Parks: Maryland Transportation Cases Between the Civil War and the Beginning of World War I, 63 Maryland Law Review 721 (2004)
When Rosa Parks refused to move to a seat in the back of the bus...
Mathias de Sousa: Maryland's First Colonist of African Descent, 96 Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (2001)
Generally Applicable Laws and the First Amendment, 26 Southwestern University Law Review 201 (1997)
The Religion Clauses and Freedom of Speech in Australia and the United States: Incidental Restrictions and Generally Applicable Laws, 46 Drake Law Review 53 (1997)
Telling the Truth and Paying for it: a Comparison of Two Cases - Restrictions on Political Speech in Australia and Commercial Speech in the United States, 7 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 111 (1996)
Comparing Implied and Express Constitutional Freedoms, 2 James Cook University Law Review 190 (1995)
Ignoring History: The Liability of Ships' Masters, Innkeepers and Stablekeepers Under Roman Law, 36 American Journal of Legal History 326 (1992)
The Annapolis Poll Books of 1800 and 1804: African American Voting in the Early Republic, 86 Maryland Historical Magazine 57 (1991)
The Maryland Context of Dred Scott: The Decline in the Legal Status of Maryland Free Blacks 1776-1810, 34 American Journal of Legal History 381 (1990)
The First Integration of the University of Maryland School of Law, 84 Maryland Historical Magazine 39 (1989)
The Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, 37 Case Western Reserve Law Review 794 (1987)
The Scandal of Smith and Buchanan: The Skeletons in the McCulloch vs. Maryland Closet, 9 Maryland Law Forum 125 (1985)
McCulloch v. Maryland announced principles of constitutional interpretation, federal power and federal immunity which are...
The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment: Reflections from the Admission of Maryland's First Black Lawyers, 44 Maryland Law Review 939 (1985)
October 10, 1985, was the one hundredth anniversary of the admission to the bar of...