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.
Presenter, "Religious Freedom, Conscience Clauses, or Licenses to Discriminate? Emerging Trends in Virginia and Beyond," Equality Under the Law Symposium, Equality Bar Association, Richmond (March 2016).
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early America (2d ed., Oxford University Press, 2009).
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford University Press, 2003). (Awarded The American Historical Association's Prize in Atlantic History)
Loyalty and Insecurity in Charles II's Virginia in "Loyalty to the British Monarchs, 1400-1688 (ed. Ward and Hefferan, forthcoming).
English Statutes in Virginia, 1660-1714, in "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (chapter 4) (Warren M. Billings & Brent Tarter eds., 2017).
Book Review, 124 Va. Mag. Hist. Biog. 69 (2016) (reviewing Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Marh Sarah Bilder (Harvard University Press 2015)).
Book Review, 117 Am. Hist. Rev. 1583 (2012) (reviewing Elaine Forman Crane, Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America (2011)).
Book Review, 95 J. Am. Hist. 179 (2008) (reviewing Thomas Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (2007)).
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
Supreme Court Order Leaves Some Same-Sex Couples 'in the Dark' (NBC News)
Mon., Oct. 6, 2014
It's the Law: Same-Sex Marriage in Virginia (FindLaw)
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
