John V. Orth

John V. Orth
Name:John V. Orth
Title:William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law
Education:Ph.D., Harvard University (1977)
M.A., Harvard University (1975)
J.D., Harvard University (1974)
A.B., Oberlin College (1969)

After completing law school and graduate school, Orth clerked for Judge John J. Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of The Judicial Power of the United States: The Eleventh Amendment in American History (1987), Combination and Conspiracy: The Legal History of Trade Unionism, 1721-1906 (1991), The North Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide (1993), Due Process of Law: A Brief History (2003), and How Many Judges Does it Take to Make a Supreme Court? and Other Essays on Law and the Constitution (2006), as well as of numerous scholarly articles and book reviews. He contributes the chapters on concurrent estates to Thompson on Real Property: Thomas Edition. He was an associate editor (for law) of the American National Biography and contributed to that series, as well as to The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States and the Oxford Companion to American Law. His publications have been cited by federal and state courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the North Carolina Supreme Court. In a recent North Carolina redistricting case he was referred to as "a highly respected state constitutional scholar." He joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1978 and teaches basic and advanced property and legal history.

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Link:Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis
Citation: Allowing Perpetuities In North Carolina, 31 CAMPBELL L. REV. 399 (2009).
Publication Type:Article
Citation:Book review (of LEGISLATING THE COURTS: JUDICIAL DEPENDENCE IN EARLY NATIONAL NEW HAMPSHIRE) _ AM. HIST. REV._ (forthcoming 2009).
Publication Type:Book Review
Citation: Due Process, OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY, (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Publication Type:Article
Citation: Escheat: Is the State the Last Heir, 13 GREEN BAG 2d _ (Forthcoming).
Publication Type:Article
Citation: In Re Married Couples, Common Law Marriages, And Same-Sex Partners: Orth V. Orth, 85 N.D. L. REV._ (forthcoming 2009).
Publication Type:Article
Link: K184 .G743
Citation:Introduction, Notes and Monthly Commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (with J. Hyde) 2009 GREEN BAG ALM. 46 & passim.
Publication Type:Article
Citation:REAPPRAISALS IN PROPERTY (Ashgate Books, forthcoming Dec. 2009).
Publication Type:Book
Citation: Reflections on Blackstone's Rules Concerning the Construction of Statutes, in WILLIAM BLACKSTONE: LIFE, THOUGHT, INFLUENCE (Wilfrid Prest, ed., Hart Pub., Oxford) (forthcoming).
Publication Type:Book Chapter
Citation: The Common Law in Colonial America, vol. 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660, __JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY OF WILLIAM NELSON __ (forthcoming).
Publication Type:Book Review
Link:SSRN
Citation: The Golden Metwand': The Measure of Justice in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, __ADEL. L. REV.__ (forthcoming 2009).
Publication Type:Article
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Contact Information

Phone:919.962.8517
Fax:919.962.1277
E-Mail:jvorth@email.unc.edu
Office:5116 Van Hecke-Wettach Hall

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