John V. Orth

John V. Orth is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He earned his A.B. (1969) at Oberlin College, and then proceeded to earn his J.D. (1974), M.A. (1975), and PhD (1977) at Harvard University. Additionally, Professor Orth is an accomplished author.

From Professor Orth's faculty page:

After completing law school and graduate school, Orth clerked for Judge John J. Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of The Judicial Power of the United States: The Eleventh Amendment in American History (1987), Combination and Conspiracy: The Legal History of Trade Unionism, 1721-1906 (1991), The North Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide (1993), and Due Process of Law: A Brief History (2003), as well as of numerous scholarly articles and book reviews. He contributes the chapters on concurrent estates to Thompson on Real Property: Thomas Edition. He was an associate editor (for law) of the American National Biography and contributed to that series, as well as to The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States and the Oxford Companion to American Law. His publications have been cited by federal and state courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the North Carolina Supreme Court. In the recent North Carolina redistricting case he was referred to as "a highly respected state constitutional scholar." He joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1978 and teaches basic and advanced property and legal history. [ [http://www.law.unc.edu/faculty/directory/ Faculty Directory ] ]

List of Publications [ [http://library.law.unc.edu/faculty_services/new_faculty_publications.html#orth Faculty Publications ] ] :

Books

DUE PROCESS OF LAW: A BRIEF HISTORY (Y. Mingcheng trans., Commercial Press, Beijing, 2006) (2003).

HOW MANY JUDGES DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A SUPREME COURT? AND OTHER ESSAYS ON LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION (University Press of Kansas, 2006).

DUE PROCESS OF LAW: A BRIEF HISTORY (University Press of Kansas 2003).

THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONSTITUTION, WITH HISTORY AND COMMENTARY (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

COMBINATION AND CONSPIRACY: A LEGAL HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM, 1721-1906 (Oxford University Press, 1991).

THE JUDICIAL POWER OF THE UNITED STATES: THE ELEVENTH AMENDMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Articles and Book Chapters

Fact and Fiction in the Law of Property, 11 GREEN BAG 2d 65 (2007). LexisNexis Westlaw

Second Thoughts in the Law of Property, 10 GREEN BAG 2d 65 (2006). LexisNexis Westlaw

The Enumeration of Rights: "Let Me Count the Ways," 9 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 281 (2006). LexisNexis Westlaw

A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to Industrialize: A Comment, 84 N.C. L. REV. 1927 (2006). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

The Burden of an Easement, 40 REAL PROP. PROB. & TR. J. 639 (2006). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

The Race to the Bottom, 9 GREEN BAG 2d 47 (2005). LexisNexis Westlaw

Who Judges the Judges?, 32 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1245 (2005). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Intention in the Law of Property: The Law of Unintended Consequences, 8 GREEN BAG 2d 59 (2004). LexisNexis Westlaw

Relocating Easements: A Response to Professor French, 38 REAL PROP., PROB. & TR. J. 643 (2004). LexisNexis

The Secret Sources of Judicial Power, 50 LOY. L. REV. 529 (2004). Hein LexisNexis

THOMPSON ON REAL PROPERTY (2d. ed. 2004)(chapters 31-33, concurrent estates) (revised annually).

Judging the Tournament (contribution to online symposium, "The Judicial Confirmation Process: Selecting Federal Judges in the Twenty-First Century") (2003), in JURIST, at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/symposium-jc.

The Mystery of the Rule in Shelley’s Case, 7 GREEN BAG 2d 45 (2003). LexisNexis Westlaw

Night Thoughts: Reflections on the Debate Concerning Same-Sex Marriage, 3 NEV. L.J. 560 (2003). Hein LexisNexis

Sale of Defective Houses: Cicero and the Moral Choice, 6 GREEN BAG 2d 163 (2003). LexisNexis Westlaw

Common Law; Commonwealth v. Hunt; Probate; Trust; and Will, in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (K. Hall ed., Oxford University Press 2002).

How Many Judges Does It Take to Make a Supreme Court? 19 CONST. COMMENT. 681 (2002). LexisNexis Westlaw

Joint Tenancy Law: Plus Ca Change..., 5 GREEN BAG 2d 173 (2002). LexisNexis Westlaw

What's Wrong With the Law of Finders and How to Fix It, 4 GREEN BAG 2d 391 (2001). LexisNexis Westlaw

"Confusion Worse Confounded": The Residential Rental Agreement Act, 78 N.C. L. REV. 783 (2000). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

History and the Eleventh Amendment, 75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1147 (2000). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

John Marshall and "Debts Which Ought Never to Have Been Contracted": An Unpublished Letter, 4 GREEN BAG 2d 49 (2000). LexisNexis Westlaw

Presidential Impeachment: The Original Misunderstanding, 17 CONST. COMMENT. 587 (2000). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Did Sir Edward Coke Mean What He Said?, 16 CONST. COMMENT. 33 (1999). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Joint Tenancies, Tenancies in Common,& Tenancies by the Entirety, in 4 THOMPSON ON REAL PROPERTY (Thomas ed., annual supp.).

Bettman, Alfred; Connor, Henry Groves; Fuller, Melville Weston; Gray, John Chipman; Haywood, John; Henderson, Leonard; and Lurton, Horace Harmon, in AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (J. Garraty ed., Oxford University Press 1999).

Contract and the Common Law (Ch. 2), in THE STATE AND FREEDOM OF CONTRACT (H. N. Scheiber ed., Stanford University Press 1998).

Exporting the Rule of Law, 24 N.C. J. INT'L L. & COM. REG. 71 (1998). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

John Marshall and the Rule of Law, 49 S.C. L. REV. 633 (1998). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Taking from A and Giving to B: Substantive Due Process and the Case of the Shifting Paradigm, 14 CONST. COMMENT. 337 (1997). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Tenancy by the Entirety: The Strange Career of the Common-Law Marital Estate, 1997 B.Y.U. L. REV. 35 (1997). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Why the North Carolina Court of Appeals Should Have a Procedure for Sitting En Banc, 75 N.C. L. REV. 1981 (1997). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Russell v. Hill (N.C. 1899): Misunderstood Lessons, 73 N.C. L. REV. 2031 (1995). Hein LexisNexis Westlaw

Who Is a Tenant? The Correct Definition of the Status in North Carolina, 21 N.C. CENT'L L.J. 79 (1995). Hein

Contributions to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH CAROLINA, GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD, and THE AMERICAN MIDWEST: AN INTERPRETIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Book reviews for ALBION, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, and The NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW.

References