Jane S. Schacter
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Jane Schacter, Day One of Supreme Court Hearings Not Promising for Gay Marriage Proponents, The Guardian, March 26, 2013
Jane S. Schacter, Reaction: Splitting the Difference: Reflections on Perry v. Brown, 125 Harvard Law Review Online Forum 72 (2012).
William B. Rubenstein, Carlos A. Ball, and Jane S. Schacter, Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, 4th edition, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 2011.
Daniel A. Farber, William N. Eskridge, Jr. Jane S. Schacter and Philip P. Frickey, Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century, 4th edition, Supplement 2011, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 2011.
Jane S. Schacter, Ely at the Altar: Political Process Theory Throughy the Lens of the Marriage Debate, 109 Michigan Law Review 1363 (2011)
Jane S. Schacter, Capacity and Context: LGBT Rights and the Obama Administration's First Year, 6 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 147 (2010)
Jane S. Schacter, Courts and the Politics of Backlash: Marriage Equality Litigation, Then and Now, 82 Southern California Law Review 1153 (2009) / Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 1564301
Jane S. Schacter, The Other Same-Sex Marriage Debate (Symposium: The Evolution of Academic Discourse on Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Festschrift in Honor of Jeffrey Sherman), 84 Chicago Kent Law Review 379 (2009).
Jane S. Schacter, Digitally Democratizing Congress? Technology and Political Accountability, 89 Boston University Law Review 641 (April 2009).
William B. Rubenstein, Carlos A. Ball and Jane S. Schacter, Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 3rd. ed., 2008.
Jane S. Schacter, Unenumerated Democracy: Lessons from the Right to Vote, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 457 (2007).
Jane Schacter, Political Accountability, Proxy Accountability and the Democratic Legitimacy of Legislatures, in The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State, Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Jane S. Schacter, Sexual Orientation, Social Change, and the Courts, 54 Drake Law Review 861 (2006).
Jane Schacter, Ely and the Idea of Democracy, 57 Stanford Law Review 737 (2004).
Jane Schacter, Lawrence v. Texas and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Democratic Aspirations, 13 Temple Political & Civil Rights Review 733 (2004).
Jane Schacter, Form, Function and Feminist Law Journals, 12 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 574 (2003).
Victoria A. Nourse and Jane Schacter, The Politics of Legislative Drafting: A Congressional Case Study, 77 New York University Law Review 575 (2002).
Jane S. Schacter, Accounting for Accountability in Dynamic Statutory Interpretation and Beyond, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, Article 5, (2002).
Jane Schacter, Constructing Families in a Democracy: Courts, Legislatures and Second Parent Adoption, 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 933 (2000).
Jane Schacter, Confounding Common Law Originalism in Recent Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation: Implications for the Legislative History Debate and Beyond, 51 Stanford Law Review 1 (1998).