John V. Orth

John V. Orth is an American legal scholar and author. He is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

He earned an A.B. (1969) at Oberlin College, and then proceeded to acquire a J.D. (1974), M.A. (1975), and PhD (1977) at Harvard University.

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.