Jack Rakove
Professor (by courtesy) of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Jack Rakove, The Secret Agent, Book Review of: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy by Thomas J. Schaeper, The Book, an online review at The New Republic, June 30, 2011.
Jack N. Rackove, Joe the Ploughman Reads the Constitution, or The Poverty of Public Meaning Originalism, 48 San Diego Law Review 575 (2011)
Jack N. Rakove, Read the Constitution All You Want--It Still Needs Interpreting, Politico.com, January 27, 2011.
Sonia Mittal, Jack N. Rackove, and Barry R. Weingast, The Constitutional Choices of 1787 and Their Consequences, in Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Jack N. Rakove, Tea Party: What's in a Name?, Politico.com, June 7, 2010.
Jack Rakove,Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Jack N. Rakove, The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Jack Rakove, Scalia's Selective History, Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2008.
Jack Rakove, Sorry, HBO, John Adams Wasn't That Much of a Hero, Washington Post, April 20, 2008, pg. B3.
Jack N. Rakove, Once More Into the Judicial Breach, 72 George Washington Law Review 381 (2003)
Jack N. Rackove, The Super-Legality of the Constitution, or, a Federalist Critique of Bruce Ackerman's Neo-Federalism, 108 Yale Law Journal 1931 (1999).