John Sexton

Publications

Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age (Yale University Press, 2019)
Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (West Academic Publishing 12th ed. 2018; 11th ed., 2013; 10th ed., 2009; 9th ed., 2008; 9th ed., 2005) (with Helen Hershkoff, Arthur R. Miller, Jack H. Friedenthal)
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game (Gotham Books, 2013) (with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Schwartz)
How Free Are We: A Non-Lawyer's Guide to the Constitution (M. Evans, 1986) (with Nat Brandt)
Redefining the Supreme Court's Role: A Theory of Managing the Federal Court System (Yale University Press, 1986) (with Samuel Estreicher)

"Subsidiarity and Federalism: The Relationship Between Law Schools and Their Universities," 87 Fordham L. Rev. 911 (2018)
"Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the Court, and the Nation," 43 J. Sup. Ct Hist. 173 (2018)
"Ineffable Intuition and Unreasonable Suspicion: Our Rule of Law Failure," 67 SMU L. Rev. 729 (2014) (with Jason Sommerkamp and Justin Martin) Abstract

The article focuses on issues surrounding searches, seizures and reasonable suspicion under the U.S rule of law. Topics discussed include the U.S Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion in case Terry v. Ohio that addressed the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, the Supreme Court's decision in case Whren v. United States that addressed traffic offense committed by a driver and the Fourth Amendment prohibition and the U.S Equal Protection Clause.
"The Preconditions of Professionalism: Legal Education for the Twenty-First Century," 52 Mont. L. Rev. 331 (1991)
"Improving the Process: Case Selection by the Supreme Court," 70 Judicature 41 (1986)
"New York University Supreme Court Project - A Managerial Theory of the Supreme Court's Responsibilities," 59 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 677 (1984) (with Samuel Estreicher)
"A Post-Upjohn Consideration of the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege," 57 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 443 (1982)
"Note, Toward a Constitutional Definition of Religion," 91 Harv. L. Rev. 1056 (1978)

Building the First Global Network University, in Places of Engagement: Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach 95 (Armand Heijnen and Rob Van der Vaart, eds., Amsterdam University Press, 2018)
Of Walls, Gardens, Wilderness, and Original Intent: Religion and the First Amendment, in America in Theory 84 (Leslie Berlowitz, Denis Donoghue and Louis Menand, eds., Oxford University Press, 1988)

"Tribute to Marian Wright Edelman," 76 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. at xxiv (2020)
"Curricular Responses to Globalization," 20 Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 15 (2001)
"'Out of the Box' Thinking About the Training of Lawyers in the Next Millennium," 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 189 (2001) (Address to the American Bar Association)