Christopher R. Green is an American legal scholar who is a professor at the

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also holding the James L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government. Prior to joining the

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he practiced law with Phelps Dunbar in

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, specializing in appellate litigation, and clerked for Judge Rhesa Barksdale of the

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. Professor Green teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law Seminar, Real Estate Transactions, and Commercial Paper.

Early life and education

Green graduated ''

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'' from

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, receiving the Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater Prize in Politics for the highest academic standing in the

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Department and the John G. Buchanan Prize in Politics for the outstanding senior thesis in the Politics Department; he was a member of

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. Afterwards, Green enrolled at

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, where he was a senior editor of the ''

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''.

Academic career

Green has published articles including: * "This Constitution": Constitutional Indexicals as a Basis for Textualist Semi-Originalism, 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. (2009) * The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Subsequent Interpretation and Application, 19 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 219 (2009) * The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Pre-Enactment History, 19 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 1 (2008) * Punishing Corporations: The Food-Chain Schizophrenia in Punitive Damages and Criminal Law, 87 Neb. L. Rev. 197 (2008) * The Food-Chain Issue for Corporate Punishment: What Criminal Law and Punitive Damages Can Learn from Each Other, Engage, Feb. 2008, at 40 * Suing One's Sense Faculties for Fraud: "Justifiable Reliance" in the Law as a Clue to Epistemic Justification, 36 Phil. Papers 49 (2007) * Originalism and the Sense-Reference Distinction, 50 St. Louis U.L.J. 555 (2006). His

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s after 2009 concern the punishment of

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s, the application of

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to the Fourteenth Amendment, the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, and the law and ethics of

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External links

Papers by Christopher Green at SSRN

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Christopher Living people University of Mississippi faculty 21st-century American jurists Year of birth missing (living people) American legal scholars