Michael D. Ramsey

              Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School

Selected On Line Publications

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· The Originalist Basis of Birthright Citizenship, Law & Liberty, February 13, 2025

 

· Originalism and Historical Gloss, Balkinzation, January 16, 2025 (reviewing Curtis A. Bradley, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2024))

 

· Presidential Power and What the First Congress Did Not Do, 99 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 47 (2023)

 

· Originalism and Birthright Citizenship, Volokh Conspiracy, October 26, 2020 (five-part series)

 

· Rethinking the Alien Tort Statute, Just Security, December 2, 2020 (symposium on the Nestlé and Cargill cases)

 

· Congress’ Power to Define 'Natural Born': A Reply to Professor Lee, American Univ. L. Rev. Forum (2018)

 

· Why the Senate Doesn't Have to Act on Merrick Garland's Nomination, The Atlantic, May 15, 2016

 

· Originalism, Natural Born Citizens, and the 1790 Naturalization Act: A Reply to Saul Cornell, 2016 Wisc. L. Rev. Forward 146 (2016)

 

· Interpretation and Debate: The Declare War Clause, National Constitution Center (with Stephen I. Vladeck), April 19, 2016; The Textual Limit on the President’s War Powers, National Constitution Center, April 19, 2016

 

· Justice Thomas gets it right in Zivotofsky, SCOTUSBlog, Symposium on Zivotofsky v. Kerry, June 9, 2015