Brannon P. Denning, Associate Professor Cumberland School of Law

Books

Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Reader and Guide (with David B. Kopel and Andrew J. McClurg) (New York University Press, 2002).

Bittker on the Regulation of Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Aspen Law & Business 1999) (collaborator with Boris I. Bittker) (cited in 1 Laurence H. Tribe, American Constitutional Law § 6-2, at 1029 n.1 (Foundation Press, 2000) and Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Sum and Substance §§ 5.10 n.1, 11.8 n.9 (3rd ed., West Group, 2000 Supp.)).

Supplement to Bittker on the Regulation of Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Aspen Law & Business) (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

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Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

Gun Litigation and the Constitution, in Suing the Firearms Industry: A Legal Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (Tim Lytton ed., U. Mich. Press, 2005) (solicited contribution).

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council and Norfolk Southern v. Shanklin, in The Oxford Companion to the United States Supreme Court (Kermit Hall ed., 2d ed. 2005)

The Import-Export Clause and Article I, § 10, cl. 1 in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (Meese, Spalding & Forte eds., 2005).

Walter V. Schaefer in Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia (John R. Vile ed., 2003).

Charlton Heston, Wayne LaPierre, Firearms Litigation Clearinghouse, Potomac Institute, and Maryland v. United States, in Encyclopedia of Guns in American Society (Gregg Carter et al. eds, 2002).

John Marshall, Luther Martin, Thurman Arnold, and Tapping Reeve, in Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia (John R. Vile ed., 2001).

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Articles  (* denotes peer-reviewed journal)

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DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, __ CATO Supreme Court Review __ (forthcoming 2006)* (solicited contribution).

Cuno and the Court: The Case for Minimalism, 4 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 33 (2006) (solicited symposium contribution).

Confederation-Era Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce and the Legitimacy of the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 94 Kentucky Law Journal 37 (2005-2006).

What Hath Raich Wrought? Five Takes, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 915 (2005) (with Glenn H. Reynolds) (solicited symposium contribution).

Retail Store Size Capping Ordinances and the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 37 The Urban Lawyer 907 (2005) (with Rachel Lary).*

Empirical Measurement of Judicial Performance: Thoughts on Choi and Gulati's Tournament of Judges? 32 Florida State University Law Review 1123 (2005) (solicited symposium contribution).

American Insurance Association v. Garamendi and Executive Preemption in Foreign Affairs, 46 William & Mary Law Review 825 (2004) (with Michael D. Ramsey).

The Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine: Prolegomenon to a Defense, 88 Minnesota Law Review 1801 (2004) (reply to Jim Chen, A Vision Softly Creeping: Congressional Acquiescence and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 88 Minnesota Law Review 1764 (2004)).

International Decisions, American Insurance Ass’n v. Garamendi and Deutsch v. Turner Corp., 97 American Journal of International Law 950 (2003).*

Why the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV Cannot Replace the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 88 Minnesota Law Review 384 (2003).

Smokey and the Bandit in Cyberspace: the Dormant Commerce Clause, the Twenty-first Amendment, and State Regulation of Internet Alcohol Sales, 19 Constitutional Commentary 297 (2002).*

The Maine Rx Prescription Drug Program and the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine: The Case of the Missing Link[age], 19 American Journal of Law and Medicine 7 (2003).

Constitutional “Incidents”: Interpretation in Real Time, 70 Tennessee Law Review 281 (2003) (with Glenn H. Reynolds).

Rulings and Resistance: The New Commerce Clause Jurisprudence Encounters the Lower Courts, 55 Arkansas Law Review 1253 (2003) (solicited symposium contribution) (with Glenn H. Reynolds).

The Yale Law School Divisional Studies Program, 1954-1964: An Experiment in Legal Education, 52  Journal of Legal Education 365 (2002).

The Relevance of Constitutional Amendments: A Reply to David Strauss, 77 Tulane Law Review 247 (2002) (with John R. Vile) (abstract available at SSRN).

Telling Miller’s Tale: A Reply to David Yassky, 65 Law and Contemporary Problems 113 (2002) (with Glenn H. Reynolds) (invited contribution to symposium on Bill of Rights) (cited in Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003 WL 21004622 (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, C.J., dissenting from denial of motion for rehearing en banc)).*

The Judicial Confirmation Process and the “Blue Slip,” 85 Judicature 218 (March-April 2002).*

The “Blue Slip”: Enforcing the Norms of the Judicial Confirmation Process, 10 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 75 (2001) (invited contribution to symposium on confirmation process).

Survey of Illinois Law: Constitutional Law, 25 Southern Illinois Law Journal 733 (2001) (invited contributor to annual Illinois law issue summarizing developments in Illinois constitutional law).

Reforming the New Confirmation Process: From “Despise and Resent” to “Advice and Consent,” 53 Administrative Law Review 1 (2001).

International Decision, Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 120 S. Ct. 2288 (2000), 94 American Journal of International Law 750 (2000) (with Jack H. McCall).*

Necromancing the Equal Rights Amendment, 17 Constitutional Commentary 593 (2000) (with John R. Vile).*

Lower Court Interpretations of Lopez, or What If the Supreme Court Held a Constitutional Revolution and Nobody Came? 2000 Wisconsin Law Review 369 (with Glenn H. Reynolds) (cited in Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies § 3.3 n.151 (Aspen, 2nd ed. 2002); Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Sum and Substance § 4.8 n.0.15 (3rd ed., West Group, 2001 Supp.)).

States’ Rights and Foreign Policy, 79 Foreign Affairs 9 (Jan./Feb. 2000) (with Jack H. McCall).

Uneasy Riders: The Case for a Truth-in-Legislation Amendment, 1999 Utah Law Review 957 (with Brooks R. Smith).

The Constitutionality of State and Local “Sanctions” Against Foreign Countries: Affairs of State, States’ Affairs, or a Sorry State of Affairs? 26 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 307 (1999) (with Jack H. McCall) (cited in Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies § 5.2 n.75 (Aspen, 2nd ed. 2002); 1 Laurence H. Tribe, American Constitutional Law § 6-24, at 1152-53 n.9 & 1154 n.12 (Foundation Press, 2000) and Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Sum and Substance § 5.10 n.2.10 (3rd ed., West Group, 2000 Supp.)).

Justice Thomas, the Import-Export Clause, and Camps Newfound/Owatonna v. Harrison, 70 Colorado Law Review 155 (1999) (cited in Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies § 5.3 nn.16 & 44 (Aspen, 2nd ed. 2002); 1 Laurence H. Tribe, American Constitutional Law § 6-2, at 1034 n.28 (Foundation Press, 2000)).

The Import-Export Clause, 68 Mississippi Law Journal 521 (1998) (with Boris I. Bittker).

Article II, The Vacancies Act, and the Appointment of “Acting” Executive Branch Officials, 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 1039 (1998) (cited in Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies § 2.4 n.2 (Aspen, 2nd ed. 2002)).

Gun Shy: The Second Amendment as an “Underenforced Constitutional Norm,” 21 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 719 (1998) (cited in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Sum and Substance § 23.5 n.14 (3rd ed., West Group, 2000 Supp.)).

Comfortably Penumbral, 77 Boston University Law Review 1089 (1997) (with Glenn Harlan Reynolds), excerpted in Constitutional Theory: Arguments and Perspectives 142-55 (2d ed., Michael J. Gerhardt et al., eds. 2000).

Means to Amend: Theories of Constitutional Change, 65 Tennessee Law Review 155 (1997).

It Takes a Militia: A Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms Bearing, 5 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 185 (1996) (with Glenn Harlan Reynolds).

Can the Simple Cite be Trusted?: Lower Court Interpretations of United States v. Miller and the Second Amendment, 26 Cumberland Law Review 961 (1996).

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Book Reviews

Brother, Can You Paradigm? ___ Constitutional Commentary ___ (forthcoming 2006) (review of Jed Rubenfeld, Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American Constitutional Law (2005))

Judge Noonan’s J’Accuse . . . !, 34 Cumberland Law Review 477 (2003-2004) (review of John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Nation’s Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)).

Book Review, 96 Law Library Journal 229 (2004) (review of Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware, Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (2003)).

Against (Constitutional) Settlement, 19 Constitutional Commentary 781 (2002) (book review of Louis Michael Seidman, Our Unsettled Constitution (2001)).*

Book Review, 94 Law Library Journal 141 (2002) (review of Richard C. Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases).*

Book Review, 93 Law Library Journal 345 (2001) (review of William E. Nelson, Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legal of Judicial Review).*

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Shorter Works

Debate Club, "How Should the Senate Provide Its Advice and Consent?" Legal Affairs, July 25-29, 2005 (with Erwin Chemerinsky).

Pouring State Power Away, National Law Journal, December 13, 2004.

Time to Sober Up: The Constitution Does Let States Stop Cross-Border Alcohol Sales, Legal Times, February 24, 2004.

Conservative Court Could Be Dems' Best Friend, FoxNews.Com, Nov. 27, 2002 (with Glenn Reynolds).

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Works in Progress

The Indispensibility of "Discrimination" to the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine: A Response to Edward Zelinsky.

Free Speech and the Public School Student: A Problem and a Reappraisal

Defining "Discrimination" in the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine

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Unpublished Works

The Five Stages of Law Review Submissions (with Miriam Cherry).

The Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine and Constitutional Structure.

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