Mormon Studies
Published Articles
"'The Living Oracles': Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 42/2 (Summer 2009): 1-19 [PDF]
"The Scholar as Celebrant," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 41/3 (Fall 2008): 163-166 [PDF]
"Preaching to the Court House and Judging in the Temple," 2009 BYU Law Review ___ (forthcoming) [SSRN]
"Mormonism's Al Smith Moment?" San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 2, 2008 at B7 [PDF] Reprinted in The Salt Lake Tribune
"A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 40/4 (Winter 2007): 1 [PDF] [SSRN] Assigned reading for Religion 432: "Mormonism and Christian Theology," Claremont Graduate University, Spring, 2008.
"Jurisprudence and the Problem of Church Doctrine," Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology 2/2 (Fall 2006): 1 [PDF] [SSRN] Assigned reading for Religion 432: "Mormonism and Christian Theology," Claremont Graduate University, Spring, 2008.
"Secret Combinations: A Legal Analysis," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 49 [PDF]
"The Story of a Forgotten Battle," 2002 BYU Law Review 745 [SSRN]
Review of Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question, BYU Studies 41/3 (2002): 71 [PDF] [SSRN]
"Out of Zion Shall Go Forth the Law," FARMS Review of Books 12/1 (2000): 113 [PDF]
"Mormons," s.v. in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus et al eds.(New York: Macmillan Co., forthcoming) [PDF]
"Reynolds v. United States," s.v. in The Encyclopedia of Mormon History, Paul Reeve & Ardis Parshall eds. (ABC-Clio, forthcoming) [SSRN]
Unpublished Papers
"'The Living Oracles': Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought," paper prepared for "Interpretation: Latter-day Saint Perspectives," Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Annual Conference, Southern Virginia University, May, 2008. [PDF]
"Property, Contract, and the Market: A Mormon Perspective," [PDF]
"The Rise and Fall of Civil Disputes in Mormon Church Courts: A Preliminary Study," a paper presented at William & Mary Law School, the Univeristy of Richmond Law School, and the Brigham Young University Faculty Center [SSRN]
"Three Generations of Mormon Legal History: A Historiographic Introduction" [SSRN]
"Jurisprudence and the Problem of Church Doctrine," a paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology [PDF]
"A Century of Mormon Theory and Practice in Church-State Relations: Constancy Amidst Change" (with Cole Durham), a paper prepared for the DePaul Center for Church and State [SSRN]
"Intelligences and Zion: An Essay in Mormon Political Philosophy" [PDF]
"Adam God: Thoughts and Reconciliations" [PDF]
"I am the Very Model of a Mormon Intellectual" (comic verse) [PDF]
Notable Blog Posts
"Walking by Faith with Popper and Quine"
"Family History and Mormon Scholarship"
"Mormonism's Poisoned Theodicy"
"Thoughts from the Anvil: Mitt, Mormonism, and American Religious Politics"
"A Really Long Post About Mitt Romney, Damon Linker, and Pope Pius V"
"Are Mormons Americans? Can They Be?"
"Law, Revelation, and the Power of Interpretation"
"RSR: What Hath Bushman Wrought?" (reviewing Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling)
"Mormon History and the Problem of Mermaids"
"The English Nature of the Mormon Constitution"
"The Industrial Organization of the Gospel"
"Models of Women and the Priesthood"
"The Drama of Procedural Nonsense"
"What is the Purpose of the BYU Dress and Grooming Code"
Reed Smoot Hearings: Link