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Bio
Since 2025, Dr. Christopher Green has taught at The Ohio State University as part of the Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society and the Moritz College of Law. Before coming to Ohio State, he taught for 19 years at the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he was Professor of Law and Jamie L. Whitten Chair in Law and Government.
He has an AB in Politics from Princeton, a JD from Yale, and a PhD in Philosophy from Notre Dame. He has written extensively about the Fourteenth Amendment, understanding citizenship as an entitlement to equal civil rights and equal solicitude for citizens’ interests, “protection of the laws” as protection from violence, and congressional Section Five enforcement power as a power to clarify Section One. He has also written about how the Constitution defines itself as a text expressing meaning at a particular time, a self-presentation binding on officeholders today who take Article VI oaths.
His work is cited in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP, 602 U.S. 1, 53 (2024) (Thomas, J., concurring); Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255, 322, 323, 324 (2023) (Gorsuch, J., concurring); United States v. Vaello Madero, 596 U.S. 159, 170, 176, 179 n.4 (2022) (Thomas, J., concurring); and McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 859 n.2 (2010) (Stevens, J., dissenting).
Courses Taught
America's Foundational Debates (Autumn 2026)
Areas of Expertise
- Constitutional law
- Equal citizenship
- Constitutional theory
- Originalism
- Separation of powers
- Fourteenth amendment
- Protection from violence
- Due process