Publication day is here. Thrilled to announce that my new book, *Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique*, is now available! amazon.com/Against-Constitut…

Here’s my most recent article, “Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Authority,” hot off the presses from the Chicago Law Review. (Link provided in comment below.) In the last couple of years, I’ve been writing about how international law ideas of sovereignty have interacted with U.S. constitutional law, and I’m now completing a book on that topic. My latest article in this vein focuses on the early U.S. practice of extraditing criminal suspects. In recounting the history, I show how governmental actors resolved core issues of federalism, presidential power, and sovereignty-based legislative authority, in part by referencing international law understandings of nationhood. Importantly, though, I also document how these actors played a significant role in constructing those same understandings. This relational dynamic between the construction of international law and the construction of U.S. constitutional law will be a key theme of the book. @CambridgeUP , @TheGNapp , @_John_Mikhail , @adambcox , @MaggieBlackhawk

"These documents, unknown to historians or archivists before now, reveal, at a time when the crisis between Britain and its North American colonies was reaching a boil, one of the final and hitherto-unknown attempts at reconciliation..."

Fascinating work here on John Dickinson, and his less-than-enthusiastic support for the Patriot cause in the American Revolution.

The William and Mary Quarterly Forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available! The WMQ has made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

Newly discovered letters reveal a forgotten effort to preserve both American rights and imperial unity, as Jane E. Calvert and Jonathan Gienapp (@TheGNapp) revisit John Dickinson's final attempts to prevent the American Revolution. lawliberty.org/the-secret-ef…

An essay by me and Jane Calvert on the John Dickinson documents discovery that reveal his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution. It previews the scholarly forum on the documents that will be published soon. lawliberty.org/the-secret-ef…