Book Chapters

• Theory Without Practice Is Empty; Practice Without Theory Is Blind: The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine and Skills, in Linda H. Edwards, The Doctrine Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflicted Wound (2017).
• Communication & Expression: A Brief Semiotic Analysis, in 2 Constitutional Law in Context, 3d ed. (Michael Kent Curtis et al 2011).

Articles

• Balancing Freedom and Restraint: The Role of Virtue in Legal Analysis, 32 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Review 315 (2023).
• Recasting Canons of Constructiuon into 'Canonical' Queries: Initial Canonical Queries of Presented or Transmitted Text, 57 Wake Forest Law Review 353 (2022).
• Why Legal Writing is "Doctrinal" and More Importantly Profound, 19 Nevada Law Journal 729 (2019).
• Making Good Sense: Pragmatism's Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law, 9 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 199.
• Originalism, Speaker Meaning, and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders, 8 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 319 (2018).
• Cognitive Emotion and the Law, 41 Law & Psychology Review 53 (2017).
• Why Originalism Cannot Work: Lessons from Logic, Scripture, and Art,.
• Law as Trope: Framing and Evaluating Conceptual Metaphors, 37 Pace Law Review 89 (2016).
• Good Legal Thought: What Wordsworth Can Teach Langdell About Forms, Frames, Choices, and Aims, 41 Vermont Law Review (2016).
• Law's 'Way of Words': Pragmatics and Textualist Error, 49 Creighton Law Review 221-292 (2016).
• Raising the Bar, Razing Langdell, 51 Wake Forest Law Review 231 (2016).
• Plane Meaning and Thought: Real-World Semantics and Fictions of Originalism, 24 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 657 (2015).
• Exercising Common Sense, Exorcising Langdell: The Inseparability of Legal Theory, Practice and the Humanities, 49 Wake Forest Law Review 1213 (2014).
• Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement, 13 Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law 127 (2013).
• Crushing Animals and Crashing Funerals: The Semiotics of Free Expression First Amendment Law Review, 12 First Amendment Law Review 237 (2013).
• Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons in Law and Rhetoric, 6 Acta Iuridica Olomucensia 9-64 (2011).
• Let's Skill All the Lawyers: Shakespearean Lessons on the Nature of Law, 11 Vera Lex - Journal of the International Natural Law Society 33 (2011).
• A Right But Wrong Place: Righting and Rewriting Citizens United, 56 South Dakota Law Review 219-237 (2011).
• 'Original' Means Old, 'Original' Means New: An 'Original' Look at What 'Originalists' Do, 67 National Lawyers Guild Review 135-55 (2010).
• Plain Language Statutes: Plain Good Sense or Plain Nonsense?, 78 Law Library Journal 683-96 (1986).

Other

• Shakespeare and Legal Positivism, Huffington Post (April 29, 2017).
• "Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows" Shakespeare and Natural Law, Huffington Post (April 29, 2017).
• Neil Gorsuch? Originalism And The Ten Commandments, Huffington Post (February 27, 2017).
• Parsing HB-2's Bathroom Babble, Huffington Post (February 14, 2017).
• Neil Gorsuch? Originalism and the Fall of Icarus, Huffington Post (February 3, 2017).
• Law & Language (February 2017).
• Toilets, Trials, and Tolls: Cleaning Up After Pat McCrory, Huffington Post (December 31, 2016).
• Weekly Legal Education Roundup, TaxProf Blog (December 30, 2016).
• Are North Carolina Republicans Plotting a 'Legislative Coup'?, The Nation (November 18, 2016).
• Pat McCrory Should Think Twice Before Trying To Pack The North Carolina Supreme Court, Huffington Post (November 16, 2016).
• Wake Forest Symposium: Revisiting Langdell — Legal Education Reform And The Lawyer's Craft, TaxProf Blog (October 20, 2016).
• Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End, Huffington Post (October 3, 2016).
• Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional, Huffington Post (September 25, 2016).
• Five Billion Dollar Pat McCrory, Huffington Post (September 15, 2016).
• Fourth Circuit Strikes Down Discriminatory Provisions of Gov. Pat McCrory's North Carolina "Omnibus" Election Law, Huffington Post (July 29, 2016).
• The "Fix" Is In: Tweaking House Bill 2 (And Workers, Too), Huffington Post (July 6, 2016).
• Verse Translation: A Call for Harder Work and Greater Care, Huffington Post (June 8, 2016).
• Razing Babel: Two Sonnets for Too Xenophobic Times, Huffington Post (June 8, 2016).
• Real Crimes Against Nature: N.C. Republicans Attack Renewable Energy, Huffington Post (May 19, 2016).
• McCrory's Munchausen by Proxy, Huffington Post (May 13, 2016).
• McCrory's House Bill 2: A Brief Outline of Its Five "Parts", Huffington Post (May 13, 2016).
• McCrory vs Cincinnatus (The Other Political Archetype), Huffington Post (May 7, 2016).
• Blaming the Chair: McCrory and the 'Patsy', Huffington Post (April 22, 2016).
• Religious Hypocrites and Their Timeless Tactics: McCrory, Tartuffe, and House Bill 2, Huffington Post (April 21, 2016).
• McCrory's Executive Order 93: Hoist By His Own Petard, Huffington Post (April 13, 2016).
• Current Politics and the "McCrory", Huffington Post (April 11, 2016).
• McCrory and House Bill 2, Huffington Post (March 31, 2016).
• Beyond Rawls' Fiction: The Veil of Ignorance Is Real, Huffington Post (March 2, 2016).
• Justice Scalia, Queen Anne, and the Pragmatics of Interpretation, Huffington Post (February 18, 2016).
• Kennings: I've Made a Little List, Huffington Post (February 9, 2016).
• Apology Box, Law & Language Blog (February 2016).
• McCrory's Executive Order 93: Hoist By His Own Petard, Huffington Post (April 13, 2016).
• Rhetoric to Lettie, Law & Language Blog (April 2016).
• Poets and Lawyers: Birds of a Feather, Huffington Post (December 15, 2015).
• Narrative in Law and Life: Some Frequently Asked Questions The Second Draft, Fall 2015 (October 2015).
• The Supreme Court & Obamacare Round II, Huffington Post (February 28, 2015).
• Justice Scalia and Queen Anne, Huffington Post (July 9, 2015).
• Hobby Lobby: No Veil, No Precedent, No Multiple Payers?, Huffington Post (July 13, 2014).
• Biting the Hand That Feeds: Entitlements and the Fundamental Attribution Error, Huffington Post (May 12, 2014).
• Letter to the Class of 2014, Huffington Post (April 29, 2014).
• From Days of Auld Langdell: Crisis and Reform in Modern Legal Education, Huffington Post (April 25, 2014).
• The Kingdom is Within, Huffington Post (April 16, 2014).
• Finding Wisdom in a Fractured World, Huffington Post (April 5, 2014).
• Obamacare and the Self-Made Man, Huffington Post (February 26, 2014).
• Song Cycle (February 2012).
• The Complete Palladas, CreateSpace 2010; verse translation of the complete epigrams of Palladas (April 2010).
• Miscellaneous Records of Granville County North Carolina, CreateSpace 2010; genealogical research (April 2010).
• Snow in August, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; verse collection (April 2009).
• Either Oar, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; verse collection (April 2009).
• Chords and Bars, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; monologues and character studies in verse (April 2009).
• The Sidden Family of North Carolina, Café Press 2004; genealogical research co-authored with Duane Sidden and Donna Sidden (April 2004).
• Lloyds of Granville and the "Harricanes", CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; genealogical research (April 2004).
• Charms and Knots, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; verse collection (April 2002).
• Racine's Phèdre, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; verse translation of Racine's play (April 1999).
• Molière's Tartuffe, CreateSpace Revised Ed. 2010; verse translation of Molière's play (April 1998).