John V. Orth

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John V. Orth is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He earned his A.B. (1969) at Oberlin College, and then proceeded to earn his J.D. (1974), M.A. (1975), and PhD. (1977) at Harvard University. Additionally, Professor Orth is an accomplished author.

Information from Professor Orth's faculty page (http://www.law.unc.edu/FSDetails.aspx?ID=49):

"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), and Due Process of Law: A Brief History (2003), 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 the 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."

Books by Professor Orth:

DUE PROCESS OF LAW: A BRIEF HISTORY (Y. Mingcheng trans., Commercial Press, Beijing, 2006) (2003).

HOW MANY JUDGES DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A SUPREME COURT? AND OTHER ESSAYS ON LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION (University Press of Kansas, 2006).

THOMPSON ON REAL PROPERTY (2d. ed. 2004)(chapters 31-33, concurrent estates) (revised annually).

DUE PROCESS OF LAW: A BRIEF HISTORY (University Press of Kansas 2003).

THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONSTITUTION, WITH HISTORY AND COMMENTARY (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Articles and Book Chapters

A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to Industrialize: A Comment, 84 N.C. L. REV. 1927 (2006).

The Burden of an Easement, 40 REAL PROP. PROB. & TR. J. 639 (2006).

The Race to the Bottom, 9 GREEN BAG 2d 47 (2005).

Who Judges the Judges?, 32 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1245 (2005).

Intention in the Law of Property: The Law of Unintended Consequences, 8 GREEN BAG 2d 59 (2004).

Relocating Easements: A Response to Professor French, 38 REAL PROP., PROB. & TR. J. 643 (2004).

The Secret Sources of Judicial Power, 50 LOY. L. REV. 529 (2004).

Judging the Tournament (contribution to online symposium, "The Judicial Confirmation Process: Selecting Federal Judges in the Twenty-First Century") (2003), in JURIST, at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/symposium-jc.

The Mystery of the Rule in Shelley’s Case, 7 GREEN BAG 2d 45 (2003).

Night Thoughts: Reflections on the Debate Concerning Same-Sex Marriage, 3 NEV. L.J. 560 (2003).

Sale of Defective Houses: Cicero and the Moral Choice, 6 GREEN BAG 163 (2003). Westlaw

Common Law; Commonwealth v. Hunt; Probate; Trust; and Will, in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (K. Hall ed., Oxford University Press 2002).

How Many Judges Does It Take to Make a Supreme Court? 19 CONST. COMMENT. 681 (2002).

Joint Tenancy Law: Plus Ca Change..., 5 GREEN BAG 2d 173 (2002).

What's Wrong With the Law of Finders and How to Fix It, 4 GREEN BAG 2d 391 (2001).

"Confusion Worse Confounded": The Residential Rental Agreement Act, 78 N.C. L. REV. 783 (2000).

History and the Eleventh Amendment, 75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1147 (2000).

John Marshall and "Debts Which Ought Never to Have Been Contracted": An Unpublished Letter, 4 GREEN BAG 2d 49 (2000).

Presidential Impeachment: The Original Misunderstanding, 17 CONST. COMMENT. 587 (2000).

Did Sir Edward Coke Mean What He Said?, 16 CONST. COMMENT. 33 (1999).

Joint Tenancies, Tenancies in Common,& Tenancies by the Entirety, in 4 THOMPSON ON REAL PROPERTY (Thomas ed., annual supp.).

Bettman, Alfred; Connor, Henry Groves; Fuller, Melville Weston; Gray, John Chipman; Haywood, John; Henderson, Leonard; and Lurton, Horace Harmon, in AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (J. Garraty ed., Oxford University Press 1999).

Contract and the Common Law (Ch. 2), in THE STATE AND FREEDOM OF CONTRACT (H. N. Scheiber ed., Stanford University Press 1998).

Exporting the Rule of Law, 24 N.C. J. INT'L L. & COM. REG. 71 (1998).

John Marshall and the Rule of Law, 49 S.C. L. REV. 633-49 (1998).

Taking from A and Giving to B: Substantive Due Process and the Case of the Shifting Paradigm, 14 CONST. COMMENT. 337 (1997).

Tenancy by the Entirety: The Strange Career of the Common-Law Marital Estate, 1997 B.Y.U. L. REV. 35 (1997).

Why the North Carolina Court of Appeals Should Have a Procedure for Sitting En Banc, 75 N.C. L. REV. 1981 (1997).

Russell v. Hill (N.C. 1899): Misunderstood Lessons, 73 N.C. L. REV. 2031 (1995).

Who Is a Tenant? The Correct Definition of the Status in North Carolina, 21 N.C. CENT'L L.J. 79 (1995).

Book reviews for ALBION, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY, and THE JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE.