| Labor vision of the Thirteenth Amendment LS VanderVelde U. Pa. L. Rev. 138, 437, 1989 | 311 | 1989 |
| The Gendered Origins of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men's Consciences and Women's Fidelity LS VanderVelde The Yale Law Journal 101 (4), 775-852, 1992 | 133 | 1992 |
| The Legal Ways of Seduction L VanderVelde Stan. L. Rev. 48, 817, 1995 | 116 | 1995 |
| Mrs. Dred Scott L VanderVelde, S Subramanian Yale LJ 106, 1033, 1996 | 102 | 1996 |
| Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier L VanderVelde Oxford University Press, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| A Fair Process Model for the Union's Fair Representation Duty LS VanderVelde Minn. L. Rev. 67, 1079, 1982 | 52 | 1982 |
| Local knowledge, legal knowledge, and zoning law LS VanderVelde Iowa L. Rev. 75, 1057, 1989 | 45 | 1989 |
| Redemption songs: suing for freedom before Dred Scott L VanderVelde Oxford University Press, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Working Group on Chapter 2 of the Proposed Restatement of Employment Law: Employment Contracts: Termination MW Finkin, L VanderVelde, WR Corbett, SF Befort Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 13, 93, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| The Thirteenth Amendment of Our Aspirations L VanderVelde U. Tol. L. Rev. 38, 855, 2006 | 38 | 2006 |
| The Labor Vision of the Thirteenth Amendment, 138 U LS VanderVelde Pa. L. Rev 437, 454-478, 1989 | 29 | 1989 |
| Making good on VACA's promise: Apportioning back pay to achieve remedial goals LS VanderVelde UCLA L. Rev. 32, 302, 1984 | 19 | 1984 |
| The Anti-Republican Origins of the At-Will Doctrine L VanderVelde American Journal of Legal History 60 (4), 397-449, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| The Dred Scott case in context L VanderVelde Journal of Supreme Court History 40 (3), 263-281, 2015 | 16 | 2015 |
| Henry Wilson: Cobbler of the Frayed Constitution, Strategist of the Thirteenth Amendment L VanderVelde Geo. JL & Pub. Pol'y 15, 173, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Where Is the Concept of Good Faith in the Restatement of Employment L VanderVelde Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 21, 335, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| The Last Legally Beaten Servant in America: From Compulsion to Coercion in the American Workplace L VanderVelde Seattle UL Rev. 39, 727, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| The Proposed Restatement of Employment Law at Midpoint L VanderVelde Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 16, 359, 2012 | 11 | 2012 |
| The Role of Captives and the Rule of Capture L VanderVelde Envtl. L. 35, 649, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| Servitude and Captivity in the Common Law of Master-Servant: Judicial Interpretations of the Thirteenth Amendment's Labor Vision Immediately After Its Enactment L VanderVelde Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 27, 1079, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
