Chris gave several presentations to a diverse array of student and professional audiences. At an event sponsored by the College of Law’s chapter of the Federalist Society, he debated Clark Neily III, author of Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government and a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, on the topic: “Resolved: Rational Basis Review is a Big, Fat Fraud.” He also participated in a panel discussion on the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision at an event sponsored by the College’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, and on a panel discussion celebrating Constitution Day, entitled: “The American Constitution in a Changing America.”

Chris spoke as part of two panel discussions on professionalism and final examinations to first-year students at the College. He also taught mock law classes to a group of admitted students, and to a large group of undergraduates at Miami University. Chris was also quoted in a Bloomberg News story that was republished in several papers (Andrew Harris, “Same-sex marriage foes seek victory,” Indianapolis Star, Aug. 6, 2014).

Several of Chris’s articles were cited:

• Reading the Law in the Office of Calvin Fletcher: The Apprenticeship System and the Practice of Law in Frontier Indiana, 1 Nev. L.J. 19 (2001), in Michele R. Pistone & John J. Hoeffner, No Path But One: Law School Survival in an Age of Disruptive Technology, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 193 (2013).
• Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court’s New “On the Record” Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001) (with Timothy J. Simeone), in Edward A. Fitzgerald, Alliance for Wild Rockies v. Salazar: Congress Behaving Badly, 25 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 351 (2014); Michael J. Teter, Letting Congress Vote: Judicial Review of Arbitrary Legislative Inaction, 87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1435 (2014).
• Presidential Signing Statements and Congressional Oversight, 16 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 169 (2007), in Dustin E. Buehler, Solving Jurisdiction’s Social Cost, 89 Wash. L. Rev. 653 (2014).
• The Third Death of Federalism, 17 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 101 (2007), in J. Richard Broughton, The Ineludible (Constitutional) Politics of Guns, 46 Conn. L. Rev. 1345 (2014).
• The Pursuit of Perfection: Congressional Power To Enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 579 (2010), in Gabriel J. Chin, Justifying a Revised Voting Rights Act: The Guarantee Clause and the Problem of Minority Rule, 94 B.U. L. Rev. 1551 (2014).
• Foreign Law as Legislative Fact in Constitutional Cases, 2011 BYU L. Rev. 1005, in Yaad Rotem, Foreign Law as a Distinctive Fact—To Whom Should the Burden of Proof Be Assigned?, 14 Chi. J. Int’l L. 625 (2014).

• What McDonald Means for Unenumerated Rights, 45 Ga. L. Rev. 1073 (2011), in Colin P. Pool, Case Note, An Easy Case Makes Bad Law: The Misapplication of Heightened Scrutiny in Maxwell’s Pic-Pac, Inc. v. Dehner, 887 F. Supp. 2d 733 (W.D. Ky. 2012), 82 U. Cin. L. Rev. 331 (2013).

• Constitutional Forbearance, 46 U. Rich. L. Rev. 695 (2012), in Raphael Janove, Yielding to the Confiscation of Public and Private Property: Judicial Deference Under the Copyright and Takings Clauses, 39 Vt. L. Rev. 89 (2014).
• Constitutional Newspeak: Learning to Love the Affordable Care Act Decision, 39 J. Legis. 15 (2012-2013), in Dan T. Coenen, The Commerce Power and Congressional Mandates, 82 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1052 (2014).