Chris delivered a presentation (with Visiting Professor Kimberly Breedon) entitled “Constitutional Law from the Ground Up: How the Prohibition on ‘Under-ruling’ Distorts the Judicial Function” as part of the College of Law’s Summer Workshop Series. He also delivered a presentation entitled “William Howard Taft and the UC College of Law: A Lifelong Partnership and an Enduring Legacy” at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site on July 29.

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 Christine Kexel Chabot, Schooling the Supreme Court, 92 Denv. U. L. Rev. 217 (2015).

• Retroactive Application of “New Rules” and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2002), in Jason M. Zarrow & William H. Milliken, The Retroactivity of Substantive Rules to Cases on Collateral Review and the AEDPA, With a Special Focus on Miller v. Alabama, 48 Ind. L. Rev. 931 (2015).

• The Third Death of Federalism, 17 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 101 (2007), in David Loudon, When Do the Ends Justify the Means?: The Role of the Necessary and Proper Clause in the Commerce Clause Analysis, 10 U. Mass. L. Rev. 294 (2015).