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.
Publications from 2025
A Plea for Private International Law (Conflict of Laws), Michael S. Green
(100 Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 73-84 (2025))Publications from 2023
Jurisdiction and the Moral Impact Theory of Law, Michael S. Green
(29 Legal Theory 29-62 (2023))Publications from 2018
The Erie Doctrine: A Flowchart, Michael S. Green
(52 Akron Law Review 215-257 (2018))Publications from 2017
The Return of the Unprovided-For Case, Michael S. Green
(51 Georgia Law Review 763-806 (2017))Publications from 2014
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))Publications from 2013
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))Publications from 2012
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))Publications from 2011
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))Leiter on the Legal Realists, Michael S. Green
(30 Law and Philosophy 381-418 (2011))Publications from 2008
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))Publications from 2007
Dworkin v. The Philosophers: A Review Essay on Justice in Robes, Michael S. Green
(2007 University of Illinois Law Review 1477-1503)Publications from 2005
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))Publications from 2004
Nietzsche’s Place in Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Michael S. Green
(47 Inquiry 168-188 (2004))Publications from 2003
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))Publications from 2002
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))Publications from 1999
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))Publications from 1995
Legal Realism, Lex Fori, and the Choice-of-Law Revolution, Michael S. Green
(104 Yale Law Journal 967-994 (1995))