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Selected Works of Richard Kay

Wallace Stevens Professor of Law Emeritus and Oliver Ellsworth Research Professor

University of Connecticut

School of Law

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University of Connecticut

School of Law

Present	Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
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Normative Systems and Human Rights

Emory Law Journal (2022)

Richard S. Kay

his is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a symposium in the Emory Law Journal honoring the extraordinary scholarly ...

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Response to the Contributors

Connecticut Law Review (2020)

Richard S. Kay

In this essay, I respond briefly to 18 articles contributed to this special Festschrift issue of the Connecticut Law Review. ...

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Contribution to Book

Democracy, Mixed Government and Judicial Review

Law under a Democratic Constitution:Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy (2019)

Richard Kay

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a forthcoming collection, Law under a Democratic Constitution:Essays in Honour of ...

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Constitutional Change and Wade's Ultimate Political Fact

University of Queensland Law Journal (2016)

Richard Kay

This is a retrospective review of H.W.R. Wades classic article on parliamentary sovereignty in the United Kingdom, The Basis of ...

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Contribution to Book

Changing the United Kingdom Constitution: The Blind Sovereign

Sovereignty and the Law: Domestic, European and International Perspectives (2013)

Richard S Kay

The traditional doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament in the United Kingdom is being transformed. The change is the cumulative ...

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Constituent Authority

American Journal of Comparative Law (2011)

Richard Kay

The force of a constitution, like the force of all enacted law, derives, in significant part, from the circumstances of ...

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Judicial Policy - Making and the Peculiar Function of Law

Univ. of Queensland Law Journal (2007)

Richard Kay

While the nature of legal systems is a perpetually contested question, it is fairly uncontroversial that each must contain certain ...

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Standing to Raise Constitutional Issues: A Comparative Analysis

University of Connecticut School of Law Articles and Working Papers (2006)

Richard S. Kay

This essay, a revised version of the General Report on “Standing to Raise Constitutional Issues” presented at the XVI International ...

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Causing Death for Compassionate Reasons in American Law

University of Connecticut School of Law Articles and Working Papers (2005)

Richard S. Kay

This essay, a revised version of the United States report on “Euthanasia” to be presented at the XVII International Congress ...

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Book Review Essay: Canada's Constitutional Cul De Sac

American Review of Canadian Studies (2005)

Richard Kay

Book reivew of 'Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?', by Peter H. Russell (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, ...

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The European Convention on Human Rights and the Control of ...

European Human Rights Law Review (2005)

Richard Kay

This article explores the evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights' applicability in private law through the development of ...

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The Secession Reference and the Limits of Law

Otago Law Review (2003)

Richard Kay

When the Supreme Court of Canada issued its judgment on the legality of "unilateral" Quebec secession in August 1998 many ...

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Legal Rhetoric and Revolutionary Change

Caribbean Law Review (1997)

Richard Kay

If we define revolutionary change as the alteration of fundamental political arrangements in ways inconsistent with accepted understandings of law, ...

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Response to the Contributors

Connecticut Law Review (2020)

Richard S. Kay

In this essay, I respond briefly to 18 articles contributed to this special Festschrift issue of the Connecticut Law Review. ...

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Contribution to Book

Democracy, Mixed Government and Judicial Review

Law under a Democratic Constitution:Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy (2019)

Richard Kay

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a forthcoming collection, Law under a Democratic Constitution:Essays in Honour of ...

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Updating the Constitution: Amending, Tinkering, Interpreting

Drake Law Review (2019)

Richard Kay

This is a revised version of a presentation made at the annual Constitutional Law Symposium at Drake University School of ...

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Formal and Informal Amendment of the United States Constitution

American Journal of Comparative Law (2018)

Richard S Kay

This is the United States report submitted for the session on Formal and Informal Constitutional Amendment at the Twentieth Congress ...

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Construction, Originalist Interpretation and the Complete Constitution

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online (2017)

Richard Kay

In recent years, the literature of constitutional originalism has adopted a new concept, “constitutional construction.” This Essay critically examines that ...

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Constitutional Change and Wade's Ultimate Political Fact

University of Queensland Law Journal (2016)

Richard Kay

This is a retrospective review of H.W.R. Wades classic article on parliamentary sovereignty in the United Kingdom, The Basis of ...

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Article

Retroactivity and Prospectivity of Judgments in American Law

American Journal of Comparative Law (2014)

Richard Kay

In every American jurisdiction, new rules of law announced by a court are presumed to have retrospective effect—that is, they ...

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The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Lw

(2014)

Richard Kay

he Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law explores the relationship between law and revolution. Revolt - armed or not ...

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Contribution to Book

Changing the United Kingdom Constitution: The Blind Sovereign

Sovereignty and the Law: Domestic, European and International Perspectives (2013)

Richard S Kay

The traditional doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament in the United Kingdom is being transformed. The change is the cumulative ...

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Article

Constituent Authority

American Journal of Comparative Law (2011)

Richard Kay

The force of a constitution, like the force of all enacted law, derives, in significant part, from the circumstances of ...

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Article

Original Intention and Public Meaning in Constitutional Interpretation

Northwestern University Law Review (2009)

Richard Kay

In recent years academic explanations of the originalist approach to constitutional interpretation have shifted the relevant inquiry from the subjective ...

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Judicial Policy - Making and the Peculiar Function of Law

Univ. of Queensland Law Journal (2007)

Richard Kay

While the nature of legal systems is a perpetually contested question, it is fairly uncontroversial that each must contain certain ...

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About Richard Kay

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Comparative Law (13)

Constitutional Law (18)