Ryan Williams
J.D., Columbia Law School
Civil Procedure
Articles & Essays
Plurality Decisions and Prior Precedent, 14 Federal Courts Law Review 76 (2022)
Unconstitutional Conditions and the Constitutional Text, 172 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 747 (2024)
SSRNLower Court Originalism, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 258 (2022)
Jurisdiction as Power, 89 University of Chicago Law Review (2022).
“Judicial Role” and Judicial Duty in Foreign Affairs, 43 Fordham International Law Journal 1235 (2020)
The “Guarantee” Clause, 132 Harvard Law Review 602 (2018)
Questioning Marks: Plurality Decisions and Precedential Constraint, 69 Stanford Law Review 795 (2017)
Due Process, Class Action Opt Outs, and the Right Not to Sue, 115 Columbia Law Review 599 (2015)
The Paths to Griswold, 89 Notre Dame Law Review 2155 (2014)
Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision, 99 Virginia Law Review 493 (2013)
The Ninth Amendment as a Rule of Construction, 111 Columbia Law Review 498 (2011)
The One and Only Substantive Due Process Clause, 120 Yale Law Journal 408 (2010)
Personal Jurisdiction and the Declaration of Independence, 75 Duke Law Journal __ (2025) (forthcoming)
SSRNBooks
Amending America's Unwritten Constitution (with Richard Albert and Yaniv Roznai, eds., 2022)
Other
Historical Fact, 99 Notre Dame Law Review 1585 (2024) (symposium: History, Tradition, and Analogical Reasoning)
SSRNFederalism, the Law of Nations, and the Excluded Middle, 1 Journal of American Constitutional History 721 (2023) (responding to: Anthony J. Bellia, Jr. & Bradford R. Clark, The International Law Origins of American Federalism, 120 Columbia Law Review 835 (2020) and David S. Schwartz, The International Law Origins of Compact Theory: A Critique of Bellia & Clark on Federalism, 1 Journal of American Constitutional History 629 (2023))
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