Professor Christian G. Fritz

Books

American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War (2008).

Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891 (1991).

A Judicial Odyssey: Federal Court in Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties (Christian G. Fritz, Michael Griffith, & Janet M. Hunter eds., 1985).

Chapters in Books

A Constitutional Middle-Ground Between Revision and Revolution: A Reevaluation of The Nullification Crisis and The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Through The Lens of Popular Sovereignty, in Law as Culture and Culture as Law: Essays in Honor of John Phillip Reid 158 (Hendrik Hartog & William Nelson eds., 2000).

Constitutional Conventions, in 1 Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System: Studies of the Principal Structures, Processes, and Policies of Congress and the State Legislatures Since the Colonial Era 37 (Joel H. Silbey ed., 1994).

Constitution Making in the Nineteenth Century American West, in Law for the Beaver, Law for the Elephant: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West 292 (John McLaren, Hamar Foster, & Chet Orloff, eds., 1992).

Due Process, Treaty Rights, and Chinese Exclusion, 1882-1891, in Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943, at 25 (Sucheng Chan ed., 1991).

Articles

America's Unknown Constitutional World,(October 2008). Common-Place, Vol. 9, No. 1.
Available at: SSRN | BePress

Recovering the Lost Worlds of America’s Written Constitutions, 68 Alb. L. Rev. 261 (2005).
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Fallacies of American Constitutionalism, 35 Rutgers L.J. 1327 (2004).
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American Constitution-Making: The Neglected State Constitutional Sources, 27 Hastings Const. L.Q. 199 (2000).
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Alternative Visions of American Constitutionalism: Popular Sovereignty and the Early American Constitutional Debate, 24 Hastings Const. L.Q. 287 (1997).
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Introduction, The Honorable Robert F. Peckham 1920-1993: His Legal, Political, and Judicial Life (Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, 1995).

The American Constitutional Tradition Revisited: Preliminary Observations On State Constitution-Making In The Nineteenth-Century West, 25 Rutgers L. J. 945 (1994).

Rethinking the American Constitutional Tradition: National Dimensions in the Formulation of State Constitutions, in 1 Cal. Supreme Ct. Hist. Soc'y Yearbook. 103 (1994), reprinted in 26 Rutgers L. j. 969 (1995).

Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism and the Constitutional Right of Revolution, 63 Pac. Hist. Rev. 39 (1994), reprinted in The American West (Gordon Morris Bakken & Brenda Farrington eds., 2000).

The Judicial Business of a Nineteenth Century Trial Court: The Northern District of California, 1851-1891, 5 W. Legal Hist. 217 (1992).
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More than 'Shreds and Patches': California's First Bill of Rights, 17 Hastings Const. L.Q. 13 (1989).
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A Nineteenth Century Habeas Corpus Mill: The Chinese Before the Federal Courts in California, 32 Am. J. Legal Hist. 347 (1988), reprinted in 1 Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Charles McClain ed., 1995).

Judge Ogden Hoffman and the Northern District Court of California, 1 W. Legal Hist. 99 (1988).

Politics and the Courts: The Struggle Over Land in San Francisco, 1846-1866, 26 Santa Clara L. Rev. 127 (1986).

Judicial Style in California's Federal Admiralty Court: Ogden Hoffman and the First Ten Years, 1851-1861, 64 S. Cal. Q. 125 (1982).
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