Engh Research Professor and Woodbridge Professor of Law
Areas of Specialization
Civil Procedure; Conflict of Laws; Constitutional Law; Continental Philosophy; Federal Courts; Jurisprudence; Philosophy of Law; Professional Responsibility
Teaching Interests
Civil Procedure; Conflicts; Philosophy of Law
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Joined the faculty in 2006 after teaching law at George Mason Law School. Clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Practiced law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Was assistant professor of philosophy at Tufts University and visiting lecturer in philosophy at the University of Alabama (Huntsville), Wesleyan University and Yale University.
Author of The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Civil Procedure (forthcoming) and Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition (2002), as well as numerous articles and essays, including publications in the Duke Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and the Virginia Law Review.
Articles
A Plea for Private International Law (Conflict of Laws), Michael S. Green
(100 Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 73-84 (2025))Jurisdiction and the Moral Impact Theory of Law, Michael S. Green
(29 Legal Theory 29-62 (2023))The Erie Doctrine: A Flowchart, Michael S. Green
(52 Akron Law Review 215-257 (2018))The Return of the Unprovided-For Case, Michael S. Green
(51 Georgia Law Review 763-806 (2017))Prediction Theories of Law and the Internal Point of View, Michael S. Green
(51 San Diego Law Review 921-938 (2014))Vertical Power, Michael S. Green
(48 University of California, Davis Law Review 73-140 (2014))Erie's International Effect, Michael S. Green
(107 Northwestern University Law Review 1485-1501 (2013))Eternal Recurrence in a Neo-Kantian Context, Michael S. Green
(54 Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia 459-473 (2013))Felix Cohen on Legislation, Michael S. Green
(1 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 113-128 (2013))On Hart's Category Mistake, Michael S. Green
(19 Legal Theory 347-369 (2013))The Twin Aims of Erie, Michael S. Green
(88 Notre Dame Law Review 1865-1937 (2013))Erie’s Suppressed Premise, Michael S. Green
(95 Minnesota Law Review 1111-1167 (2011))Horizontal Erie and the Presumption of Forum Law, Michael S. Green
(109 Michigan Law Review 1237-1291 (2011))Does Dworkin Commit Dworkin’s Fallacy?: A Reply to Justice in Robes, Michael S. Green
(28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33-55 (2008))Why Protect Private Arms Possession? Nine Theories of the Second Amendment, Michael S. Green
(84 Notre Dame Law Review 131-189 (2008))Halpin on Dworkin's Fallacy: A Surreply, Michael S. Green
(91 Virginia Law Review 187-201 (2005))Legal Revolutions: Six Mistakes About Discontinuity in the Legal Order, Michael S. Green
(83 North Carolina Law Review 331-401 (2005))Nietzsche’s Place in Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Michael S. Green
(47 Inquiry 168-188 (2004))Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green
(78 Indiana Law Journal 919-964 (2003))Dworkin's Fallacy, or What the Philosophy of Language Can't Teach Us About the Law, Michael S. Green
(89 Virginia Law Review 1897-1952 (2003))Hans Kelsen and the Logic of Legal Systems, Michael S. Green
(54 Alabama Law Review 365-413 (2003))The Paradox of Auxiliary Rights: The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Michael S. Green
(52 Duke Law Journal 113-178 (2002))The Privilege's Last Stand: The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and the Right to Rebel Against the State, Michael S. Green
(65 Brooklyn Law Review 627-716 (1999))Book Chapters
Choice of Law as General Common Law: A Reply to Professor Brilmayer, Michael S. Green
(The Role of Ethics in International Law 125-35 (Donald E. Childress III ed., 2012))Book Reviews
Leiter on the Legal Realists, Michael S. Green
(30 Law and Philosophy 381-418 (2011))Dworkin v. The Philosophers: A Review Essay on Justice in Robes, Michael S. Green
(2007 University of Illinois Law Review 1477-1503)Notes
Legal Realism, Lex Fori, and the Choice-of-Law Revolution, Michael S. Green
(104 Yale Law Journal 967-994 (1995))