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30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am
This subject is complex—not least because, as Sandy Levinson appropriately writes, fixity is “chimerical. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 11:13 am
Sandy Levinson, my former teacher whom I respect enormously, reads my post on the increasing opacity of the congressional appropriations process and askswhether I would agree that Congress has rendered itself illegitimate. [read post]
19 May 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Public Memory and Public Monuments, 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]
21 Oct 2010, 3:15 am
His misdiagnosis also seems to influence Sandy Levinson’s unduly pessimistic view of the chances for reform. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson, for example, refer to the antebellum materials discussed in Kate Masur’s wonderful new book, “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,” which describes state-level civil rights efforts led by black Americans in the decades prior to the Civil War (for which Balkinization hosted an on-line symposium just prior to mine). [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 12:01 am
Update: For a post saying the exact opposite of everything I am saying here, see Sandy Levinson's thoughts here. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 7:39 pm
Larry Solum (Legal Theory Blog) Jack Balkin (Balkinization) Gene Volokh (Volokh Conspiracy) Orin Kerr (Volokh Conspiracy) Dick Posner (Becker-Posner) Kim Krawiec (Faculty Lounge) Al Brophy (Faculty Lounge) Sandy Levinson (Balkinization) Steve Bainbridge (Professor Bainbridge) Dan Solove (Concurring Opinions) Rick Hills (Prawfs) Paul Horwitz (Prawfs) David Luban (Balkinization) William Henderson (ELS) Dan Markel (Prawfs) Danille Citron (Concurring Opinions) Frank… [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 7:55 pm
As Sandy Levinson at Balkinization laments, our Constitution starts looking a bit frayed around the edges when such a popular initiative can be stopped in its tracks by a determined president and 1/3 + 1 of one (gerrymandered and polarized) chamber of Congress. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 7:02 am
Here's a little selection from Sandy Levinson's and my recent article on Dred Scott that addresses this very question. [read post]
5 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
, 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]
22 Oct 2018, 6:00 am
Framers designing a constitution must decide between provisions likely capable of only one interpretation that will become part of what Sandy Levinson calls the Constitution of Settlement or provisions whose interpretation will be disputed that will become part of what Sandy Levinson calls the Constitution of Conversation. [read post]
12 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Constitutional Faith and Veneration, 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]
1 Jul 2019, 6:30 am
A little over a year ago, Sandy Levinson and I published a paper arguing that Donald Trump should not enjoy all the Article II powers of past presidents. [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 7:38 am
The United States is better thought of as in the fourth or fifth decade of a dysfunctional constitutional order than as either experiencing the painfully slow transition from the Reagan Era to something else (Jack Balkin’s view) or the collapse of the constitutional order of 1787 (Sandy Levinson’s view). [read post]
26 Aug 2023, 12:26 pm
Sandy Levinson and others think the constitutional bar on persons born abroad creates second-class citizens. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 10:14 am
Trumpism can be prevented only if fundamental changes are made to the constitutional order, whether those changes be, as Sandy Levinson insists, to the constitutional text, or as I believe, to the way that constitutional politics functions.Alas, the normal politics that generated an abnormal president also highlight why very few governing officials have an incentive to change fundamental features of the constitutional order. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 10:57 am
As many friends, most notably Sandy Levinson and Mark Tushnet have pointed out, the way in which constitutions structure politics at particular times often has more influence on who gets what from government than constitutional law. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 10:44 am
As Sandy Levinson reminds us from time to time, Americans have difficulty imagining alternatives to the ways in which politics functions in the United States. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 8:55 am
” Sandy Levinson aside, very few people who label themselves constitutional theorists are concerned with the problem that occupied Madison, namely how power could best be organized to ensure that Americans are treated equally and justly. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 10:25 am
" Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson both take issue with this, emphasizing the decidedly inegalitarian realities of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as of the religious and philosophical traditions underpinning the principle of reciprocity. [read post]