Russell F. Pannier

Emeritus Professor of Law

Bibliography

Articles

"Comparative and Noncomparative Justice: Some Guidelines for Constitutional Adjudication," 14 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 141 (2005). With R. Levine.  Click here for current draft posted on the SSRN. Click here for full text on Lexis and Westlaw. 

Book review: "Constitutional Interpretation: Just Politics or Fidelity to the Past?" on A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics by H. Jefferson Powell, 30 William Mitchell Law Review 1125 (2004). Full text on Lexis.

Contribution to “From a Logical Point of View.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Vol.5:1, Winter, 2002.

Contribution to “From a Logical Point of View.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture , Vol.5:2, Spring, 2002.

"Essay: Abraham's Theory of Constitutional Interpretation." 29 William Mitchell Law Review 265 (2002). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

Book review: The Pluralist Game: Pluralism, Liberalism, and the Moral Conscience by Francis Canavan, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. XVI, No. 2, (2001). Full text on Westlaw.

"Getting a Grip on the Philosophies of Thomas Aquinas: A Defense of Systematic Reconstruction." 18 Faith and Philosophy 50 (2001).

"Aquinas on the Ultimate End of Human Existence." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Fall 2000, at 169.

"Essay: D'Amato, Kripke, and Legal Indeterminancy." 27 William Mitchell Law Review 881 (2000). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Is Natural Law Relevant in the Practice of Law?" Minnesota Lawyer, April 17, 2000, at 16. With N. Hamilton.

"Decision Theory and Life Choices." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture , Vol. 2:4, Fall 1999, at 155.

"In Summation: The Nature of Human Nature." William Mitchell, spring 1999, at 27.

Book review: Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, by Paul Thagard. AI Magazine, spring 1998, at 133. With B. Bennet, D. Nelson, G. Robinson-Riegler, T. Sullivan.

Book review: Atheism and Theism, by J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane. 51 Review of Metaphysics 446 (1997).

"Lopez and Federalism." 22 William Mitchell Law Review 71 (1996). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Being, Existence and the Future of Thomastic Studies: A Reply to Professor Nijenhuis." 69 American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1995). With T. Sullivan.

"God and Subsistent Forms in De Ente et Essentia." 69 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 205 (1995). With T. Sullivan.

"Aquinas’s Solution to the Problem of Universals in De Ente et Essentia." 68 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 159 (1994). With T. Sullivan.

"Aquinas on ‘Exists.’" 67 American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 157 (1993). With T. Sullivan.

"An Analysis of the Theory of Original Intent." 18 William Mitchell Law Review 695 (1992).

"Logic, Law and Abortion." Linacre Quarterly, Feb. 92, at 53. With M. Degnan.

"Justifying Federalism." 16 William Mitchell Law Review 613 (1990).

"Substantive Due Process and Equal Protection Arguments: An Analysis of the Tussman and tenBroek Distinction." 15 William Mitchell Law Review 535 (1989).

"Mindful Logic: How to Resolve Some Paradoxes of Identity." 29 Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 249 (1988). With T. Sullivan.

"Finnis and the Commensurability of Goods." 61 The New Scholasticism 440 (1987).

"Roberto Unger and the Critical Legal Studies Movement: An Examination and Evaluation." 13 William Mitchell Law Review 647 (1987).

"Efficiency as a Standard for Evaluating Legal Rules." 8 William Mitchell Law Review 675 (1982).

"The Nature of the Judicial Process and Judicial Discretion." 7 William Mitchell Law Review 573 (1982).

Chapters

"God and the World" and "The Mind-Maker" (both with Thomas Sullivan). In R.A. Varghese, ed., Theos, Anthropos, Christos: A Compendium of Modern Philosophical Theology. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

"Gathering Materials to Philosophize: Elements of an Aristotelian Approach to Texts." In 72 Annual ACPA Proceedings 131 (1999). With T. Sullivan.