Professor John Pagan is a University Professor Emeritus and served as Dean of the Law School from 1997-2003. He teaches and writes in the areas of legal history, constitutional law, and sexuality and the law. Professor Pagan's book, Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia, won the American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History.
Arkansas Courts and Covenants Not to Compete, 12 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal 57 (1989).
Civil Rights and Personal Injuries: Virginia's Statute of Limitations for Section 1983 Suits, 26 William and Mary Law Review 199 (1985).
Eleventh Amendment Analysis, 39 Arkansas Law Review 447 (1985).
Virginia's Statute of Limitations for Section 1983 Claims after Wilson v. Garcia, 19 University of Richmond Law Review 257 (1985).
English Carriers' Common-Law Right to Reject Undeclared Cargo: The Myth of the Closed-Container Conundrum, 23 William and Mary Law Review 791 (1982).
Fourth Amendment Finality, 15 Arkansas Lawyer 168 (1981).
Private Rights and Public Forums: Classifying Plaintiffs in Virginia Defamation Suits, 7 Virginia Bar Association Journal 8 (with Richard Walck) (1981).
State Courts and Federlism in the 1980's: Introduction, 22 William and Mary Law Review 599 (1981).
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early America (Oxford University Press 2d) (2009).
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford University Press) (2003).
Loyalty and Insecurity in Charles II's Virginia, in Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 (Palgrave Macmillan) (Matthew Ward et al., eds.) (2020).
English Statutes in Virginia, 1660-1714, in "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (2017).
Book Review - Bilder's "Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention", 124 Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 69 (2016).
Book Review - Crane's "Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America", 117 The American Historical Review 1583 (2012).
Book Review – Foster’s “Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America”, 95 The Journal of American History 179 (2008).
States ratchet up transgender battle with lawsuit against U.S. (Reuters)
Wed., May. 25, 2016
Nancy Dye campaign criticizes John Edwards for missing disclosure on attack ad (The Roanoke Times)
Tue., Oct. 13, 2015
How an 1865 Ruling in Favor of Confederate Soldiers Just Protected the Vote for Minorities in Arkansas (Slate)
Mon., Oct. 20, 2014
It's the Law: Same-Sex Marriage in Virginia (FindLaw)
Mon., Oct. 6, 2014
Supreme Court Order Leaves Some Same-Sex Couples 'in the Dark' (NBC News)
Mon., Oct. 6, 2014
Is the Supreme Court Ready to Settle the Gay Marriage Battle? (NBC News)
Sun., Sep. 28, 2014
Marriage equality marches toward the Supreme Court (MSNBC)
Thu., Jul. 31, 2014
Court, people split over state's gay marriage ban (The Free Lance-Star, Lexington Herald Leader)
Wed., May. 14, 2014
Overthrow of Va. gay-marriage ban draws hot debate (The Virginian-Pilot, Find Law)
Sun., Feb. 16, 2014
