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2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Wrestling with Religious Diversity, 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 Aug 2011, 6:21 pm
I think this is yet another area where Jack’s analogy (or really, Sandy Levinson’s analogy, which Jack credits generously) between constitutional faith and religious faith, between the Bible and the Constitution, is highly instructive. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:30 am
Sandy Levinson is surely correct that James Madison left much to be desired as a constitutional theorist, throwing out ideas that he did not fully explain or develop. [read post]
29 May 2018, 8:28 am
This clause is—one might have thought—part of what Sandy Levinson calls the hard-wired constitution of settlement. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 6:22 am
Last fall, Sandy Levinson, Mark Tushnet and I asked thirty-five of the leading experts on constitutionalism to consider the state of constitutional democracy with respect to particular countries, regions and problems. [read post]
21 May 2022, 6:30 am
Guest Blogger This post was prepared for a roundtable onPublic 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]
1 May 2022, 6:30 am
Guest Blogger This post was prepared for a roundtable on Reforming the Supreme Court of the United States, 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 May 2022, 7:28 am
Guest Blogger This post was prepared for a roundtable on Reforming the Supreme Court of the United States, 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]
20 Aug 2015, 9:33 am
I’ll be speaking about the book at a related Sept. 4 panel on constitutional amendment and constitutional change (with John Vile, Sandy Levinson, Richard Hasen, and Melissa Schwartzberg) at APSA in San Francisco. [read post]
6 May 2014, 6:52 am
In a powerful dissenting opinion (rightly praised by Sandy Levinson below), Justice Kagan raises the possibility of prayer in the courtroom before a trial, prior to a naturalization ceremony, at a polling place on election day, or at the DMV. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 8:20 pm
Roe would enter what Sandy and I call the "anti-canon"; it would become the canonical example of how one shouldn't decide constitutional cases. [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 11:48 pm
As Sandy Levinson and I have written, we are in a gradual transition from a National Security State to a National Surveillance State. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:24 pm
This is Sandy Levinson's and my notion of partisan entrenchment.If Rick is right that modern Presidents cannot easily punish the Supreme Court directly, how is it, he asks, that the Supreme Court can be more or less guaranteed to stay in touch with the values of the dominant national coalition? [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am
Sandy Levinson's and my theory of partisan entrenchment argues that Presidents generally attempt to install jurists who agree with their constitutional and policy positions on the issues most important to them. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 1:49 pm
o Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin - Morton Horwitz and The Rule of Lawo Laura Kalman - Transformationso Bill Nelson - Who Should Judge Legal History: Lawyers or Historians? [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 6:10 pm
In another post for Balkinization, University of Texas at Austin law professor Sandy Levinson suggests that Obama take the alternative route of educating the public “about the unconstitutional behavior of his Republican adversaries. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 9:37 am
But if the President does nothing, and argues that there is nothing he can do to persuade the Senate to change its mind because the Senate gets to determine its own rules under Article I, section 5, we face what Sandy Levinson and I have called a Type Two constitutional crisis-- in which acceptance of the political rules of the game sends the country over a cliff.Article IV of the Constitution requires that the United States guarantee a republican form of government--… [read post]
11 Jan 2007, 11:00 am
My good friend and mentor Sandy Levinson would have us agonize over the possibility that an incompetent president has 740 days yet to reign. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 5:00 am
And I suppose everyone is just channeling Sandy Levinson, who has been arguing for several years that the Senate is a democratically abhorrent institution that undermines everything the federal government can or wants to do. [read post]
23 May 2007, 11:53 am
Even at Yale, which has long had a reputation for not caring much about law at all, this simply isn't the case.Apropos of Yale's reputation, this post wouldn't be complete without poking a little fun at my own law school, so let me close with this story, which Sandy Levinson likes to tell. [read post]
