Melissa Murray

BOOKS

• The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2024) (with Andrew Weissmann)
• Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (Foundation Press 2d ed., 2022; 1st ed., 2015) (with Kristin Luker)
• Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Foundation Press, 2019) (ed. with Katherine Shaw and Reva B. Siegel)

ARTICLES

• "Making History," 133 Yale Law Journal Forum 990 (2024)
• "Dobbs and Democracy," 137 Harvard Law Review 728 (2024) (with Katherine Shaw)
• "Stare Decisis and Remedy," 73 Duke Law Journal 1501 (2024)
• "Mothers in Law," 121 Michigan Law Review 909 (2023) (review)
• "Children of Men: The Roberts Court’s Jurisprudence of Masculinity," 60 Houston Law Review 799 (2023)
• "Education as Childcare," 101 North Carolina Law Review 1463 (2023) (with Caitlin Millat)
• "Legitimizing Illegitimacy in Constitutional Law," 99 Washington University Law Review 2063 (2022)
• "The End of Roe v Wade and New Legal Frontiers on the Constitutional Right to Abortion," 328 Journal of the American Medical Association 325 (2022) (with I. Glenn Cohen and Lawrence O. Gostin)
• "Abortion, Sterilization, and the Universe of Reproductive Rights," 63 William & Mary Law Review 1599 (2022)
• "Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context," 43 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 67 (2022) (with Reva B. Siegel and Serena Mayeri)
• "Pandemics, Privatization, and the Family," 96 New York University Law Review Online 106 (2021) (with Caitlin Millat)
• "A Podcast of One’s Own," 28 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 51 (2021) (with Leah M. Litman and Katherine Shaw)
• "Foreword: The Milkmaid’s Tale," 57 California Western Law Review 211 (2021)
• "Race-ing Roe: Reproductive Justice, Racial Justice, and the Battle for Roe v. Wade," 134 Harvard Law Review 2025 (2021)
• "Law School in a Different Voice," Women & Law 131 (2020)
• "The Symbiosis of Abortion and Precedent," 134 Harvard Law Review 308 (2020)
• "One Is the Loneliest Number: The Complicated Legacy of Obergefell v. Hodges," 70 Hastings Law Journal 1263 (2019)
• "The Equal Rights Amendment: A Century in the Making," 43 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change The Harbinger 91 (2019) (symposium foreword)
• "Sex and the Schoolhouse," 132 Harvard Law Review 1445 (2019)
• "Consequential Sex: #MeToo, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and Private Sexual Regulation," 113 Northwestern University Law Review 825 (2019)
• "Inverting Animus: Masterpiece Cakeshop and the New Minorities," 2018 Supreme Court Review 257 (2019)
• "The Geography of Bigotry," 99 Boston University Law Review 2611 (2019)
• "Loving’s Legacy: Decriminalization and the Regulation of Sex and Sexuality," 86 Fordham Law Review 2671 (2018)
• "Obergefell v. Hodges and Nonmarriage Inequality," 104 California Law Review 1207 (2016)
• "Rights and Regulation: The Evolution of Sexual Regulation," 116 Columbia Law Review 573 (2016)
• "Something Old, Something New: Reflections on the Sex Bureaucracy," 7 California Law Review Online 122 (2016) (with Karen Tani)
• "Accommodating Nonmarriage," 88 Southern California Law Review 661 (2015)
• "Family Law's Doctrines," 163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1985 (2015)
• "Griswold's Criminal Law," 47 Connecticut Law Review 1045 (2015)
• "Overlooking Equality on the Road to Griswold," 124 Yale Law Journal Forum 324 (2015)
• "Black Marriage, White People, Red Herrings," 111 Michigan Law Review 977 (2013) (review)
• "Inequality's Frontiers," 122 Yale Law Journal Online 235 (2013)
• "Panopti-Moms," 4 California Law Review Circuit 165 (2013)
• "Paradigms Lost: How Domestic Partnership Went from Innovation to Injury," 37 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 291 (2013)
• "Marriage as Punishment," 112 Columbia Law Review 1 (2012)
• "What’s So New About the New Illegitimacy?," 20 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 387 (2012)
• "Disestablishing the Family," 119 Yale Law Journal 1236 (2010) (with Alice Ristroph)
• "Marriage Rights and Parental Rights: Parents, the State, and Proposition 8," 5 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 357 (2010)
• "The Space Between: The Cooperative Regulation of Criminal Law and Family Law," 44 Family Law Quarterly 227 (2010)
• "Strange Bedfellows: Criminal Law, Family Law, and the Legal Construction of Intimate Life," 94 Iowa Law Review 1253 (2009)
• "The Networked Family: Reframing the Legal Understanding of Caregiving and Caregivers," 94 Virginia Law Review 385 (2008)
• "When War Is Work: The G.I. Bill, Citizenship, and the Civic Generation," 96 California Law Review 967 (2008)
• ""I’d Like to Thank the Academy": Eminem, Duncan Kennedy, and the Limits of Critique," 55 Journal of Legal Education 65 (2005)
• "Whatever Happened to G.I. Jane?: Citizenship, Gender and Social Policy in the Postwar Era," 9 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 91 (2002)

CHAPTERS

• Dobbs' Democratic Deficits, in Roe V. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion 158 (Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., Oxford University Press, 2024) (with Katherine Shaw)
• Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education, in The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19, at 65 (Linda C. McClain and Aziza Ahmed, eds., Routledge, 2024) (with Caitlin Millat)
• Constitutionalizing Reproductive Rights (and Justice), in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States 442 (Deborah Brake, Martha Chamallas and Verna Williams, eds., Oxford University Press, 2023) (with Hilarie Meyers)
• The Sexual Subject: Recasting the Sexual Citizen, in The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law 132 (Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio-Marín, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2023)
• The Rights Revolution and the Modern Supreme Court, in With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom 352 (Steven A. Steinbach, Maeva Marcus and Robert Cohen, eds., Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Roe v. Wade, in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law 523 (Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Wilig, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• Afterword, in Herma Hill Kay, Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors 295 (Patricia A. Cain ed., University of California Press, 2021)
• Concurring, in What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Same-Sex Marriage Decision 202 (Jack M. Balkin, ed., Yale University Press, 2020)
• Myth, Culture and Policy, in Democracy & Justice: Collected Writings 2019, at 96 (Alan J. Beard, ed., Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2020) (with Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• Rethinking Reproductive Rights and Health, in Democracy & Justice: Collected Writings 2019, at 115 (Alan J. Beard, ed., Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2020) (with Kate Shaw, Reva Siegel and Rebecca Traister)
• Sexual Liberty and Criminal Law Reform: The Story of Griswold v. Connecticut, in Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories 11 (Melissa Murray, Katherine Shaw and Reva B. Siegel, eds., Foundation Press, 2019)
• Made With Men in Mind: The GI Bill and Its Reinforcement of Gendered Work After World War II, in Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law 84 (Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau, eds., New York University Press, 2011)
• The Private Life of Criminal Law, in Criminal Law Conversations 692 (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey and Kimberley Kessler Ferzan, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009)

SHORT ARTICLES

• "Human Rights Hero: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor," 48 Human Rights 26 (2023)
• Supreme Court Term Limits Would Create Their Own Problems
• Real-Life Effects of Court Rulings Should Matter as Well as the Law
• The Strange History of Marriage as Court-ordered Punishment
• The New Marriage Inequality