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12 Mar 2012, 5:50 am
The new body will be run by the director of transition, Michael McManus (appointed in February), Jonathan Collett, the director of communications and Charlotte Dewar, head of complaints, according to HoldTheFrontPage. [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm
Do you include fiction on your legal history syllabi? [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In an essay for this website a few weeks ago, my fellow columnist and friend Mike Dorf wrote about how the Obamacare statute (Act) might be in danger in the King v. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm
Today we analyze a very intriguing issue raised by a case that will be heard by the U.S. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm
The year that is winding down brought many legal twists and turns at the highest levels of the federal government, and 2018 promises to be just as legally interesting and important. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
Given that this week is the first in the Supreme Court’s new Term, it is hardly surprising that I will devote today’s column to a case on the Court’s docket this week. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I offer analysis of a campaign regulation case in which the U.S. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze an important and interesting decision, Demers v. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
When doctors consider whether to administer a particular medical treatment, they have to balance the treatment’s efficacy (that is, how likely the treatment is to help the patient, and by how much) against negative side effects (that is, how likely the treatment is to harm the patient, and how badly). [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
This week offered quite the spectacle in Alabama. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 9:09 am
Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International LawAn exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of Hugo Grotius's Mare Liberum The Development of the Law of the Sea in the 17th Century: A Bibliography of Modern ScholarshipCompiled by Edward Gordon Akashi. [read post]
19 May 2019, 9:01 pm
From the Right and from the Left, legislatures are considering—and in many cases enacting—laws that have no meaningful chance of surviving judicial challenge under the U.S. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:01 pm
It is usually a happy coincidence when my two professional roles—constitutional scholar/teacher and academic administrator—come together in a work task. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we offer our analysis of the oral argument that was held two days ago at the U.S. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
As 2014 draws to a close, we thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the most significant constitutional developments of the past year. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Now that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper has submitted a sufficient number of signatures for his bid to split California into three separate states—Cal3, as it is called—to qualify for the November general election ballot, commentators are beginning to discuss the political and legal obstacles the measure faces—hurdles I flagged and analyzed in a number of Verdict columns, including here and here.Among the legal stumbling blocks currently being talked about is the… [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [read post]
