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25 May 2023, 11:06 am by Lana Ulrich
Sandford (1857): In this pre-Civil War case, Dred Scott was an enslaved man who was taken by his enslaver into a free state (Illinois) and a free federal territory (the Wisconsin territory). [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 10:49 pm by Josh Blackman
Last month, Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Johnson v. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 5:31 am by Melissa Stewart
Four of these states—Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, and the Marshall Islands—are at risk of losing their entire territory due to rising sea levels. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 3:00 pm by John A. Emmons, Avery Schmitz
Robert Loeb provided a synopsis of Bahlul v. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 4:49 am by Emma Snell
Marshall Cohen, Sara Murray and Annie Grayer report for CNN. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 12:00 am by Jonathan Ross (Bristows)
  In relation to the evidence, Arnold LJ found that Neo’s application failed on the first criterion set out in Ladd v Marshall. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Stephen Griffin
  As with the debate over internal improvements, in debates over the constitutionality of territorial expansion, states’ rights, and the status of slavery nineteenth-century Americans came to rely on non-amendment or “informal” means to make (or at least advocate, in the case of proposals not adopted) significant legal changes to the Constitution. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” I have no particular brief for high Federalists from New England, but I do wonder what we might think had Garrison actually been influential and several New England states accepted his view and tried to secede, say, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Prigg v. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Federation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
Specifically, the Supreme Court should: (1) overturn Cherokee Nation v. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 5:55 am by Owiso Owiso
As the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) notes in paragraph 46(v), a fundamental benchmark for peace agreements is the inclusion of comprehensive provisions on justice, accountability, and reconciliation. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  What would be most interesting is a counterfactual history where formerly enslaved persons had accepted Sojourner Truth’s advice to move West and take advantage of the Homestead Act to settle in the territories and, perhaps, create one or two states truly controlled by African-Americans. [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 5:01 am by Marc DeGirolami
Or consider the doctrine of state sovereign immunity, which the Court said in Alden v. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 6:55 am by Jennifer Davis
The Supreme Court also cited Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion in Worcester v. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
Mankichi (1903) that federal power to pursue the common good when governing the territories is limited by the individual rights enumerated in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and voted with the majority in Boyd v. [read post]