Published Works

• Wintercut (1994), published by Penobscot Press

• “Revisiting the Bath School Disaster,” published by The Court Legacy (2013)

• What Justice Looks Like (2018), published by Fifth Avenue Press

• “How to Spot a Con” published in Legal News (2018)

  • “How to Spot a Con: An Introduction”

  • “How to Spot a Con Man: Picking Marks”

  • “How to Spot a Con: Distracting the Brain”

  • “How to Spot a Con: Start with the Heart”

  • “How to Spot a Con: When Opportunity Comes Knocking”

• “The Civil War, Then and Now” published in Legal News (2021)

  • “The Civil War, Then and Now: 'The Myth of the Lost Cause'“

  • “The Civil War, Then and Now: Robert E. Lee and the problem only Trump can fix”

  • “The Civil War, Then and Now: The Lost Cause, true believers, and January 6, 2021”

  • “The Civil War, Then and Now: The what ifs and the what's next”

• Series of commentaries on the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade published in Legal News (2022)

  • “Nation’s response to expected end of Roe v. Wade already underway”

  • “Local Voice: Did Roe v. Wade cross line drawn by stare decisis?”

  • “Overturning Roe may be first step in a long line of troubling rules”

• Series of commentaries on Liberty of Conscience published in Legal News (2022)

  • “Liberty of Conscience under attack in era of social intolerance”

  • “Persecution before choice comes at high cost in a free society”

  • “A brief critique of originalism”

  • “Dobbs decision takes country to a dark age”

Scholarly articles by Mr. Damren on landmark legal cases and the intersection of law with other disciplines have been published in the following journals: Law and Philosophy (The Netherlands 1996), The Detroit College of Law at Michigan State Law Review (1998), Texas Wesleyan Law Review (1999), New England Law Review (2000 and 2002), Journal of Legal Pluralism (U.K. 2002), Michigan Bar Journal (2006 and 2014), The Court Legacy, Historical Society for the United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan (2003, 2009 and 2013), Journal of Law in Society (2012) and Criminal Law Brief, Washington College of Law (2013).