From the July-August 2007 issue of Barnett's Notes on Commercial Litigation: Just after the dawn of the 20th century, a dissenting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously said that "great cases, like hard cases, make bad law". [read post]

  You can already get many of the articles on SSRN: Jack Balkin:  Abortion and Original Meaning Randy Barnett: Underlying Principles Ethan J Leib: The Perpetual Anxiety of Living Constitutionalism Mitchell Berman: Originalism and Its Discontents It is a fun group of papers -- and others are expected from Mike Rappaport (with co-author John McGinnis), Mike Paulsen, Sandy Levinson, and Dawn Johnsen. [read post]