Rogers’ research considers how institutions interact in separation-of-power systems with a focus on the role of courts in those systems. As such, it examines how courts and other institutions mutually construct their decision-making environment and the reciprocal influence that the institutions have on each other. Other aspects of this focus include studies of bicameral interaction in state legislatures and implications of judicial review for state economic policies.
James R. Rogers is editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and is currently working on a book, States & Nation: Rightly Dividing Political Authority.
Dr. Rogers teaches graduate courses in political institutions and public administration, as well as in game theory and mathematical modeling. He teaches undergraduate courses in constitutional law, comparative state constitutions, law and legislation, and research methods.
Undergraduate Classes
He has published a number of articles and published a book. His articles include “Resurrecting Lochner: A Defense of Unprincipled Judicial Activism” (Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2007, with George Vanberg), “The Impact of Divided Government on Legislative Production” (Public Choice, 2005), “Empirical Determinants of Bicameral Sequence in State Legislatures,” (Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2005), “National Judicial Power and the Dormant Commerce Clause” with C. Carrubba, (Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2003), “Judicial Advisory Opinions and Legislative Outcomes” (American Journal of Political Science, 2002, with G. Vanberg) and “Information and Judicial Review: A Signaling Game of Judicial-Legislative Interaction,” (American Journal of Political Science, 2001). Additional articles have been published in American Journal of Political Science 1998, 1999, Legislative Studies Quarterly 2003, 2005, Journal of Theoretical Politics 2001, Public Choice, 2002, 2005, The Tax Lawyer, 2000, and Creighton Law Review 1999. The book, Institutional Games and the Supreme Court (with Jon Bond and Roy Flemming) was published in 2006. Rogers contributed three chapters to the book.
Session I:
Demsetz Nirvana Fallacy
Dewey Philosophies of Freedom
Rosenblatt Introduction
Rosenblatt 8-40
Rosenblatt 245-277
Siedentop Introduction
Siedentop 281-305
Siedentop 321-366
Session II:
Cover The Supreme Court 1982 Term – Forward Nomos and Narrative
Gordon Critical Legal Histories
Niebuhr The Pathos of Liberalism (after Dewey text)
Session III:
Dewey Science & Free Culture
Marx Gundresse
Marx Preface to a Critique of Political Economy
Marx Selections from the German Ideology
Myer Blue Suede Shoes 2012 Introduction and Ch 2
Mill on Liberty
Rousseau First Discourse
Tocqueville 778-784
Tocqueville 800-814
Tocqueville 831-852
Session IV:
Aristotle NE 1-20
Aristotle NE 20-25
Aristotle NE 190-202
Augustine On Christian Teaching Book II
Dewey Education for Social Change (two essays)
Plato 96-99
Plato 226-237
Plato 249-274
Session V:
Illich 3-21
Illich 67-88
Illich 167-178
Session I:
Calabresi Rise & Fall of the Separation of Powers
O’Donvoan 3-30 127-143
Tocqueville 2 -32
Tocqueville 130 -141
Tocqueville 278 – 279
Tocqueville 377 – 385
Tocqueville 406 – 415
Session II:
O’Donovan 149 -185
Tocqueville 395 – 401
Tocqueville 416 – 423
Tocqueville 466 – 489
Tocqueville 742 – 753
Tocqueville 895 – 904
Tocqueville 930 – 938
Tocqueville 1194 – 1205
Tocqueville 1245 – 1285
Session III:
McKelvey General Conditions for Global Intransitivities in Formal Voting Models
Pettit Republicanism
Rogers Federalist 10 and the Chaos Theorem, Part I
Tocqueville 74 – 91
Tocqueville 98 – 103
Tocqueville 209 – 219
Tocqueville 255 – 263
Session IV:
Augustine Letter to Vincentius On the Donatists
Henry Madison Sundry letters
Jefferson A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 18 June 1779
Kahn Political Theology and the Fiction of the King’s Two Bodies
Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration
Session V:
Hazony 1 – 37
Hirschl Constitutional Theocracy
Spruyt 153 – 180
