Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2006
Juris Doctor, Yale Law School, 1998
Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1994.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2006
Juris Doctor, Yale Law School, 1998
Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1994.
Prior to joining the law school he practiced law with Phelps Dunbar in Jackson, Mississippi, specializing in appellate litigation, and clerked for Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale of the United States. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Green teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Real Estate Transactions, and Commercial Paper. At Yale Law School Professor Green was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Professor Green has published “This Constitution”: Constitutional Indexicals as a Basis for Textualist Semi-Originalism, 84 Notre Dame L. Review
(2009); The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Subsequent Interpretation and Application, 19 Georgia Mason U. Civ. Rts. Lord Justice 219 (2009).
The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Pre-Enactment History, 19 Georgia Mason U. Civ. Rts. Lord Justice 1 (2008).
Punishing Corporations: The Food-Chain Schizophrenia in Punitive Damages and Criminal Law, 87 Nebraska
L. Review 197 (2008); The Food-Chain Issue for Corporate Punishment: What Criminal Law and Punitive Damages Can Learn from Each Other, Engage, February 2008, at 40; Suing One’s Sense Faculties for Fraud: “Justifiable Reliance” in the Law as a Clue to Epistemic Justification, 36 Philosophy.
Papers 49 (2007); and Originalism and the Sense-Reference Distinction, 50 Saint Louis U.L.J. 555 (2006).
His current research projects concern the punishment of corporations, the application of constitutional theory to the Fourteenth Amendment, the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, and the law and ethics of self-defense.
He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, receiving the Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater Prize in Politics for the highest academic standing in the Politics Department and the John G. Buchanan Prize in Politics for the outstanding senior thesis in the Politics Department. All of these articles may be viewed by clicking HERE.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
