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Cornell Law School
Cornell University Library
Josh Chafetz 
Associate Professor of Law
Books
Democracy's Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions (Yale University Press, 2007).
Articles
"Congress's Constitution," 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 715 (2012).
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"Multiplicity in Federalism and the Separation of Powers," 120 Yale Law Journal 1084 (2011).
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"The Unconstitutionality of the Filibuster,"  43 Connecticut Law Review 1003 (May 2011).
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"The Political Animal and the Ethics of Constitutional Commitment, 124 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (2011).
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"Impeachment and Assassination," 95 Minnesota Law Review 347 (2010).
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"Is the Filibuster Constitutional?" 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 245 (2010).
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"Executive Branch Contempt of Congress," 76 University of Chicago Law Review 1083 (2009).
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"Leaving the House: The Constitutional Status of Resignation from the House of Representatives," 58 Duke Law Journal 177 (2008).
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"Curing Congress's Ills: Criminal Law as the Wrong Paradigm for Congressional Ethics," 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 238 (2008).
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Comment, "Cleaning House: Congressional Commissioners for Standards," 117 Yale Law Journal 165 (2007).
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"Social Reproduction and Religious Reproduction: A Democratic-Communitarian Analysis of the Yoder Problem," 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 263 (2006). reprinted in Religious Liberty 37-47 (Sylvia Engdahl ed. 2007).
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Book Reviews
"Multiplicity in Federalism and the Separation of Powers," 120 Yale Law Journal 1084 (2011). (reviewing Alison L. LaCroix, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (2010)).
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"It’s the Aggregation, Stupid!," 23 Yale Law & Policy Review 577 (2005) reviewing James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (2004).
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"Review of Neal Devins & Louis Fisher, The Democratic Constitution," 2005 Public Law 670 (2005).
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