Val Nolan Professor of Law; Provost for Indiana University-Bloomington; Executive Vice President, Indiana University
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Books
FEDERAL COURTS: CASES AND MATERIALS ON JUDICIAL FEDERALISM AND THE LAWYERING PROCESS, 3rd ed. (with Arthur Hellman and David R. Stras). Providence, NJ: LexisNexis, 2013.
FEDERAL COURTS: CASES AND MATERIALS ON JUDICIAL FEDERALISM AND THE LAWYERING PROCESS, 2nd ed. (with Arthur Hellman and David R. Stras). Newark: LexisNexis, 2009.
FEDERAL COURTS: CASES AND MATERIALS ON JUDICIAL FEDERALISM AND THE LAWYERING PROCESS (with Arthur Hellman). Newark: LexisNexis, 2005. Regular and Judicial Code Supplements 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
LES ETATS DES NOIRS: FEDERALISME ET QUESTION RACIALE AUX ETATS-UNIS (with Elisabeth Zoller). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000.
Articles
Afterword: Nudging Toward Virtue, 69 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 599 (2020). [HeinOnline]
Special Introduction, 48 FAMILY COURT REVIEW 602 (2010). [HeinOnline]
Introduction to the Stewart Lecture Series, 82 INDIANA LAW REVIEW 457 (2007). [HeinOnline]
Sovereignty and Democracy: The States’ Obligations to Their Citizens Under Federal Statutory Law, 78 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 543 (2003). [HeinOnline]
Introduction to Law, Morality, and Popular Culture in the Public Sphere, 77 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 221 (2002). [HeinOnline]
The Practice of Precedent: Anastasoff, Noncitation Rules, and the Meaning of Precedent in an Interpretive Community, 35 INDIANA LAW REVIEW 399 (2002). [HeinOnline]
Federal Court Supervision of State Criminal Justice Administration (with Joseph Hoffmann), 543 ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 154 (1996). [HeinOnline]
Impermeable Federalism, Pragmatic Silence, and the Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts, 71 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 841 (1996). [HeinOnline]
The Civil Justice Reform Act and the Goal of Uniform Federal Procedure: Resolving the Tension, 37 FOR THE DEFENSE 13 (1995).
Fractured Procedure: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 46 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1447 (1994). [HeinOnline]
Mandatory Disclosure and Local Abrogation: In Search of a Theory for Optional Rules, 14 REVIEW OF LITIGATION 49 (1994). [HeinOnline]
Grass Roots Procedure: Local Advisory Groups and the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 59 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 879 (1993). [HeinOnline]
Private Justice and the Federal Bench, 68 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 891 (1993). [HeinOnline]
The Politics of Crisis and the Federal Courts, 7 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 115 (1991). [HeinOnline]
Caseload and Judging, 1990 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 3 (1990). [HeinOnline]
The Myth of the Disposable Opinion, 87 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 940 (1989). Reprinted in LEGAL RESEARCH: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC AGE (George Grossman, Ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. [HeinOnline]
Book Chapters
Riding the Color Line: The Story of Railroad Commission of Texas v. Pullman Co., in FEDERAL COURT STORIES (Vicki Jackson and Judith Resnik, Eds.) New York: Foundation Press, 2010.
Civil Protective and Restraining Orders and Remedies for Domestic Violence, in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHAT’S A LAWYER TO DO? Indianapolis, IN: ICLEF, 1995.
The Amendments to the Discovery Rules: An Overview, in FEDERAL CIVIL PRACTICE. Indianapolis, IN: ICLEF, 1994.
Pornography and Existing Law: What the Law Can Do, in FOR ADULT USERS ONLY: THE DILEMMA OF VIOLENT PORNOGRAPHY (Susan Gubar and Joan Hoff-Wilson, Eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Book Reviews
Book Review. Karst, K., Belonging to America, 8 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 309 (1991). [HeinOnline]
Book Review. Glendon, M.A., Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, 6 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 131 (1989). [HeinOnline]
Editorials & Commentaries
Dear Alumni and Friends, DEAN'S REPORT 2 (2008/09).
The Power and Promise of Transformative Philanthropy, DEAN'S REPORT 1 (2007/08).
2007-08 Marked by Historic Gifts, DEAN'S REPORT 9 (2007/08).
Every Name Has a Place, DEAN'S REPORT 2 (2006/07).
From the Dean, BILL OF PARTICULARS 2 (Spring 2006).
From the Dean, BILL OF PARTICULARS 2 (Fall 2006).
Opening Our Classrooms Effectively to Foreign Graduate Students, 24 PENN STATE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 797 (2006). [HeinOnline]
Advancing with a Clear Vision, DEAN'S REPORT 2 (2005/06).
The Challenge and Promise of Public Legal Education, 48 RES GESTAE 5 (March 2005). [HeinOnline]
From the Dean, BILL OF PARTICULARS 2 (Fall 2004).
A Lawyer's Calling, BILL OF PARTICULARS 1 (Spring 2003).
A Message from the Dean, BILL OF PARTICULARS 2 (Fall 2003).