Research
Book Project
The Steel Seizure Case: The Development of Congressional and Presidential Power in Times of War (under contract with University Press of Kansas)
Articles & Blog Posts
Presidentialism at the Highest Ebb: Executive Power in the Age of Trump, U. Dayton L. Rev. (forthcoming) (SSRN)
The Unitary Executive and Politics, 52 Ohio Northern U. L. Rev. 65 (2026) (SSRN)
The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law 74 Emory L.J. Online 48 (2025) (SSRN)
Consistent with the Letter and Spirit: Seila Law v. CFPB and the Future of Presidential Removal Power, 47 U. Dayton L. Rev. 163 (2022). (SSRN)
A Matter of ‘Principal’: A Critique of the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. Online 4 (2021). (SSRN)
Chaos and Chevron in the Backyard, Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (June 28, 2024). (JReg).
Of Major Questions and Nondelegation, Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (July 3, 2023). (SSRN) (JReg)
“Was Constitutional Law Teaching Ever Not in Crisis?” (2024), Dorf on Law, (April 3, 2024). (Dorf on Law).
“Trump, Hegseth, and the Fallacies of the Unitary Executive,” Liberal Currents, (March 25, 2025). (Liberal Currents)
“Moderate Reformers and the American Administrative State” Review of Jesse Tarbert’s When Good Government Meant Big Government (2021), Liberal Currents, (April 28, 2022). (Liberal Currents)
Book Reviews
Review of The Presidency and the American State by Stephen J. Rockwell, Presidential Studies Quarterly 56, No. 1 (2026).
Works-in-Progress
Money, Speech, and the Roots of the Unitary Executive Theory
Books & Edited Volumes
Patrick J. Sobkowski, ed., The Law Officer’s Pocket Manual (2024 Edition) (Routledge).
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