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6 Nov 2011, 6:06 am
I am reminded of an excellent essay (it is short, 14 pages, and clear, elegant, and accessible) by NYU’s Richard Pildes a couple of years ago on Cass Sunstein’s body of work which, of course, is central to this discussion. [read post]
4 Jan 2025, 7:25 am
In the opening essay, Larry Diamond, Edward Foley, and Richard Pildes summarize the compelling evidence: Recent surveys consistently find that 50 to 60 percent of Americans are not satisfied with the way democracy is working in the United States. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
As law professors Daryl Levinson and Richard Pildes argued in an important 2006 Harvard Law Review article, during periods of unified government—when one party controls both houses of Congress and the Presidency—our system works very much like a parliamentary one, with the President finding support for his agenda in the legislature, while in times of divided government, separation of powers works all too well, for then a determined opposition can create gridlock.… [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 6:48 pm
As Professor Richard Pildes explained in a New York Times op-ed yesterday, “The court’s rejection of statewide challenges in the Wisconsin case will make gerrymandering litigation more complex. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 4:21 am
” At Balkinization, Rick Pildes describes the decision as “a powerful example of what I call an ‘institutionally realist’ approach to judicial review of executive branch action. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 7:30 am
(Obviously, this calls into deeper question the continuing relevance of Madison, especially in light of the critique offered several years ago by Richard Pildes and Darryl Levinson of Madison in terms of "separation of parties" rather than of "powers. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 5:01 am
Frederick Schauer and Richard Pildes call this idea "electoral exceptionalism," which posits that "elections should be constitutionally understood as (relatively) bounded domains of communicative activity" where "it would be possible to prescribe or apply First Amendment principles to electoral processes that do not necessarily apply through the full reach of the First Amendment. [read post]
26 Sep 2024, 12:59 pm
SLS Professors Richard Thompson Ford and Pamela Karlan, co-hosts of Stanford LegalRich Ford: On the one hand, the election officials you talked about are under a lot of pressure. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 12:02 pm
Those plaintiffs are represented by noted voting rights professor Richard Pildes, among others.) [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 8:17 am
A recent article by NYU law professor Richard Pildes suggested that several recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, most notably Citizens United, fit the “counter-majoritarian” thesis to a tee. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am
As before, I want to thank Richard Albert, Ashley Moran, and Trish Mair for providing both the inspiration for the collective occasion and, in Trish’s case, the literally indispensable technical acumen to make it all happen with astonishing smoothness across many time zones and, in some cases, continents. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 10:33 am
For several generations now, the US legal culture has almost universally accepted an account of our history that goes like this: The 1870s through the 1920s was the “formalist age,” when most lawyers and judges believed that law is comprehensive, gapless, internally consistent, and logically ordered, and that judges mechanically deduce single right answers in cases. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable onVoting Rights, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022.Sanford Levinson First I must express my continued thanks to the persons actually behind this remarkable project, Richard Albert, Ashley Moran, and Trish Do. [read post]
