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27 Jan 2020, 10:59 am
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 10:29 am
The Supreme Court's federalism battleground has recently shifted from the Commerce Clause to two textually marginal but substantively important domains: the Necessary and Proper Clause and, to a lesser extent, the General Welfare Clause. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 2:40 pm
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 2:29 pm
Human Dignity has become a central value in political and constitutional thought. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 9:27 am
In a naïve model of judging, Congress writes statutes, which courts know about and then slavishly apply. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 1:33 pm
One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 12:21 pm
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 11:19 am
Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years about Title VII and its effects for women in the workplace. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 1:11 pm
Although people sometimes violate the law, there is more legal compliance than we can explain by ordinary economic theory – that legal sanctions deter noncompliance. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 2:06 pm
With commentary by Professor William Hubbard. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 8:57 am
Richard A. [read post]
2 May 2016, 2:30 pm
Justin Driver is Harry N. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 10:09 am
Even for those among us who are not altogether convinced by Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," it has by now become commonplace to adopt a distinction between "negative" and "positive" liberties that largely coincides with the one he offered. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 9:38 am
Martha Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School with comments by Martha Nussbaum, Aziz Huq, and Michael Schill What role if any should forgiveness play in law and legal systems? [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 1:03 pm
After the Hobby Lobby and Citizens United decisions, a robust public debate has emerged over corporate constitutional rights. [read post]
12 May 2016, 11:21 am
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma: How to Secure Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity by a Recalcitrant Nuclear State? [read post]
28 May 2015, 8:42 am
For over twenty-five years, federal courts of appeals have rebelled against every Supreme Court mandate that weakens the federal sentencing Guidelines. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 9:12 am
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions about how to distribute risk across generations and, more specifically, (II) that the less ambitious the mitigation is, the more inherently objectionable the resulting inter-generational risk distribution is, and (III) that mitigation that is so lacking in ambition that it bequeaths risks that remain unlimited, when the risks could have been limited… [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 1:07 pm
Professor Lash graduated from Yale Law School and served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert R. [read post]