Scholarship about Insular Cases/Territories

Below is a list of legal scholarship, ordered by most recent, that Equally American’s work has helped inform or generate:

• Neil Weare, Why the Insular Cases Must Become the Next Plessy, Harvard Law Review Blog (March 28, 2018)
  
  
• Sam Erman, Accomplices of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 131 Harv. L. Rev. F. 105 (2018)
  
  
• Hon. Juan R. Torruella, Why Puerto Rico Does Not Need Further Experimentation with Its Future: A Reply to the Notion of “Territorial Federalism,” 131 Harv. L. Rev. F. 65 (2018)
  
  
• Rose Cuison Villazor, Problematizing the Protection of Culture and the Insular Cases, 131 Harv. L. Rev. F. 127 (2018)
  
  
• Developments in the Law, 130 Harv. L. Rev. 1617 (2017):
  1. Introduction
  2. Territorial Federalism
  3. The International Place of Puerto Rico
  4. American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism
  5. Guam and the Case for Federal Deference
  
  
• Rose Cuison Villazor, American Nationals and Interstitial Citizenship, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 1673 (2017)
  
  
• Franklin Troy Fegurgur, “Half an American”: Guam Veterans’ Struggle for Voter Equality, 19 Asian-Pacific L. & Pol’y J. 153 (2017)
  
  
• Benjamin Wallace Mendelson, Courts Have Gone off the Map: The Geographic Scope of the Citizenship Clause, 95 Tex. L. Rev. 873 (2017)
  
  
• Elizabeth K. Watson, Citizens Nowhere: The Anomaly of American Samoans’ Citizenship Status After Tuaua v. United States, 42 Dayton L. Rev. 411 (2017)
  
  
• Neil Weare, Citizenship in U.S. Territories: Constitutional Right or Congressional Privilege?, 29 Centro J. 136 (2017)
  
  
• Neil Weare, Equally American: Amending the Constitution to Provide Voting Rights in U.S. Territories and the District of Columbia, 46 Stetson L. Rev. 259 (2017)
  
  
• Russell Rennie, A Qualified Defense of the Insular Cases, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1683 (2017)
  
  
• Charles R. Venator-Santiago et al., Citizens and Nationals: A Note on the Federal Citizenship Legislation for the United States Pacific Island Territories, 1898 to the Present, 10 Charleston L. Rev. 251 (2016)
  
  
• Joseph E. Sung, Redressing The Legal Stigmatization of American Samoans, 89 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1309 (2016)
  
  
• Ivy Yeung, The Price of Citizenship: Would Citizenship Cost American Samoa its National Identity?, 17 Asian-Pacific L. & Pol’y J. 1 (2016)
  
  
• Stephen I. Vladeck, The Supreme Court’s Subtle but Scary Refusal to Revisit the Insular Cases, ACSblog (July 18, 2016)
  
  
• Michael Ramsey, Cert Petition and Amicus in the American Samoa Citizenship Case, The Originalism Blog (March 23, 2016)
  
  
• Harvard Law School, Reconsidering the Insular Cases: The Past and Future of the American Empire (2015)(edited by Gerald L. Neuman & Tomiko Brown-Nagin)
  
  
• Steve Vladeck, Three Problems With Judge Brown’s Opinion in Tuaua, Just Security (June 7, 2015)
  
  
• Katherine Culliton-González, Millions of Voters of Color in the U.S. “Territories” Are Being Denied Their Fundamental Voting Rights, ACSblog (Feb. 9, 2015)
  
  
• Will Baude, Tuaua v. United States: Does the Citizenship Clause mean what it says?, The Volokh Conspiracy (May 28, 2014)
  
  
• Steve Vladeck, The D.C. Circuit, Samoan Citizenship, and the Insular Cases, Just Security (Feb. 4, 2015)
  
  
• Hiram Marcos Arnaud, Are the Courts Dividing Puerto Ricans: How the Lack of Voting Rights and Judicial Interpretation of the Constitutions Distorts Puerto Rican Identity and Creates Two Classes of Puerto Rican American Citizens, 22 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 701 (2013)
  
  
• Hon. Juan R. Torruella, Ruling America’s Colonies: The Insular Cases, 32 Yale L. & P. Rev. 57 (2013)
  
  
• Neil Weare, A Dream Deferred: ‘Separate and Unequal’ in U.S. Territories, ACSblog (Aug. 23, 2013)