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16 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But as Robert Post’s magisterial Holmes Devise volumes on the Taft Court reveal, William Howard Taft succeeded in packing the Supreme Court of the United States – twice – first as a one-term president from 1909 to 1913 and again as chief justice from 1921 to 1930. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Stephen Breyer     Robert Post has written a magisterial account of the Supreme Court during the near decade (1921 to 1930) when former President, William Howard Taft, served as Chief Justice. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by JB
We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including David Bernstein (George Mason), Stephen Breyer (SCOTUS/Harvard), James Fleming (BU), Ariela Gross (UCLA), William Forbath (Texas), Laura Kalman (UCSB), Jill Lepore (Harvard), Lisa McGirr (Harvard), William Novak (Michigan), Edward Purcell (New York Law School), Jeffrey Rosen (G.W. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
On December 29, 1860, Justice Robert Grier wrote that Floyd was "a traitor & one who has conducted his office in a manner to disgrace this administration & plunder the country, & who is now plotting its destruction. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In my view, Kavanagh’s “mediated majoritarianism” is clearly related to James Madison's understanding of democracy. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 4:52 am by Beatrice Yahia
Robert Plummer reports for BBC News. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 6:29 am by Nicholas Rostow
When it comes to the laws of war, a substantial number of commentators can play the notes but not the music. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
James Pearce, a Justice Department attorney, called that “an extraordinarily frightening” proposition. [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 6:44 am by INFORRM
Hay v Cresswell [2023] EWHC 882 (KB).Tattoo artist William Hay took libel action against Nina Cresswell, a woman who published a blog and social media posts stating that he had violently sexually assaulted her 10 years earlier. [read post]
4 Dec 2023, 3:06 pm by Aaron Moss
Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 5:49 am by Nathan Dorn
Majer, who was not yet able to use Sanskrit sources, translated all of the foregoing from English translations, two of which were prepared by the British orientalist Sir William Jones. [read post]