Mark R. Killenbeck
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Also affiliated: University of California, Berkeley (1999)
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Mark R. Killenbeck's scholarship focuses on American constitutional law and history, with particular attention to the evolution of legal principles and their societal implications. His work has explored foundational legal concepts such as the meaning of "commerce" under the Constitution and the historical context of landmark Supreme Court cases like Korematsu v. United States. He has also examined the historical and philosophical underpinnings of affirmative action and the pursuit of equal opportunity in American society.
Killenbeck's research delves into the complexities of a compound republic, investigating how reserved powers function within the American political system. His publications reflect a deep engagement with the historical development of legal thought and its ongoing relevance to contemporary issues of equality, justice, and governance. He has a h-index of 4 and has published 40 works, with 50 citations.
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- h-index: 4
- Publications: 40
- Citations: 50
Selected Publications
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Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP: A Political Exception to the Rule Against Race-Based Redistricting (2025)
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Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard on Affirmative Action (2024)
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Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707 (2022)
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The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist (2021)
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Sober Second Thought? Korematsu Reconsidered (2021)
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M'Culloch in Context (2019)
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Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution (2017)
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A Prudent Regard to Our Own Good? The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States (2012)
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Inventing Equal Opportunity (2011)
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Thomas H. Cox, Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. Pp. 260. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8214-1845-1); $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8214-1846-8). (2010)
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Richard E. Ellis, Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 265. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-19-532356-6). (2009)
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Affirmative Action and the Courts: From Plessy to Brown to Grutter, and Back? (2007)
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The Qualities of Completeness: More? Or Less? (1999)
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Another Such Victory--Term Limits, Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Representation (1994)bepress Legal Repository OpenAlex
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Closing the Gates: A Nebraska Constitutional Standard for Search and Seizure: State v. Arnold , 214 Neb. 769, 336 N.W.2d 97 (1983) (1984)Nebraska law review OpenAlex
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- Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707
- Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard on Affirmative Action
- Another Such Victory--Term Limits, Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Representation
- The Qualities of Completeness: More? Or Less?
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