Michael Kent Curtis

Wake Forest University - School of Law

Professor of Law

P.O. Box 7206

Winston-Salem, NC 27109

United States

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Judicial Review and Populism

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Apr 2003
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Constitutional law, judicial review, populism, Constitutional history

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Citizens United, Davis v. FEC, and Arizona Free Enterprise in Context: Lochner on Steroids and Democracy on Life Support

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Citizens United, Davis v. FEC, and Arizona Free Enterprise in Context: Lochner on Steroids and Democracy on Life Support

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 2029209
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2012
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Citizens United and Davis v. FEC: Lochner on Steroids and Democracy on Life Support

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1685459
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2012
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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John Bingham and the Story of American Liberty: The Lost Cause Meets the 'Lost Clause'

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 08 Nov 2002
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Constitutional history, Constitutional law, Reconstruction amendments

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In Pursuit of Liberty: The Levellers and the American Bill of Rights

Constitutional Commentary, p. 801, 1991, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 956931
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jan 2007
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Bill of Rights, Levellers, Legal History

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Lincoln, the Constitution of Necessity, and the Necessity of Constitutions: A Reply to Professor Paulsen

Maine Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2006, Wake Forest University Legal Studies Paper No. 962933
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, Civil Liberties

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Race As a Tool in the Struggle for Political Mastery: North Carolina's 'Redemption' Revisited 1870–1905 and 2011–2013

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Race As a Tool in the Struggle for Political Mastery: North Carolina's 'Redemption' Revisited 1870–1905 and 2011–2013

Law and Inequality, Vol. 33
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 03 Nov 2016
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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North Carolina, elections, redistricting, racial quotas, Voting Rights Act

Race as a Tool in the Struggle for Political Mastery: North Carolina's 'Redemption' Revisited 1870-1905 and 2011-2013

Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Volume XXXIII, Forthcoming, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 2431272
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 02 May 2014
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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gerrymandering, voting, race relations, elections, redistricting, North Carolina

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Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: North Carolina's Use of Racial Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and Black Political Power

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 51, 2016, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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gerrymandering, voting, race relations, elections, redistricting, North Carolina

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The Bill of Rights and the States: An Overview from One Perspective

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1334687
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2010
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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bill of rights, incorporation, privileges or immunities

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Campaign Finance and the Ecology of Democratic Speech

103 Kentucky Law Journal 529 (2015)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 21 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2016
Michael Kent Curtis and Eugene D. Mazo
Wake Forest University - School of Law and Rutgers Law School
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campaign finance, election law, First Amendment, legal history, Citizens United v. FEC, McCutcheon v. FEC, Davis v. FEC, Arizona Free Enterprise Freedom Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett

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St. George Tucker and the Legacy of Slavery

William & Mary Law Review, 2005, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 05-12
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Jun 2005
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Legal History, Slavery, Free Speech, Constitutional History

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A Unique Religious Exemption from Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Case of Gays? Putting the Call for Exemptions for Those Who Discriminate Against Married or Marrying Gays in Context

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1921364
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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The Klan, the Congress, and the Court: Congressional Enforcement of the Fourteenth And Fifteenth Amendments & the State Action Syllogism, A Brief Historical Overview

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 11, No. 1398, 2009, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1524283
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Dec 2009
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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North Carolina's Sick Democracy: Racial Gerrymanders, Political Gerrymanders, and Voting Rules as Tools for Partisan Entrenchment

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2018
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Gerrymandering, racial gerrymandering, voting, elections

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Be Careful What You Wish For: Gays, Dueling High School T-Shirts, and the Perils of Suppression

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1400822
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 May 2009
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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The Fraying Fabric of Freedom: Crisis and Criminal Law in Struggles for Democracy and Freedom of Expression

Texas Tech Law Review, Vol. 44, 2011, Wake Forest University Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2015
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Reflections on Albion Tourgee's 1896 View of the Supreme Court a Consistent Enemy of Personal Liberty and Equal Right

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1982170
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Jan 2012
Michael Kent Curtis
Wake Forest University - School of Law
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