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United States v. Nixon at Fifty: Why Judge Cannon Is Wrong About the Attorney General’s Authority to Select a Special Counsel

24 Jul 2024, 6:27 am by Marty Lederman

United States v. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

[Josh Blackman] More Evidence that "Direct Taxes" include Levies on Wealth and Income

19 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman

In NFIB v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

United States v. Rahimi: Let’s Cheer the Supreme Court’s Result But Boo Its Ever-Stranger Standard

1 Jul 2024, 9:02 pm by Albert W. Alschuler

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, judges legislate “interstitially. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

Weekend Roundup

28 Jun 2024, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani

Supreme Court's use of history (and various reflections on the use of history in judicial decisionmaking) in the recently decided Second Amendment case United States v. [read post]

Legal History Blog - http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/

Kentucky man says police violated Fourth Amendment by searching his backpack during arrest

19 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm by Kalvis Golde

Bembury v. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

[Josh Blackman] Judge James C. Ho's Remarks to the Midland County Bar Association

15 Apr 2024, 6:00 pm by Josh Blackman

V. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

We Need to Move Beyond Profit Maximization to Plural Business Purposes

7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding

For many business economists and legal academics, the purpose of any business organization is simply stated: to maximize profits. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

Ida B. Wells: A Plea for Law and Society Canonization

1 Mar 2024, 5:16 pm by Tom Ginsburg

The famous Brandeis brief appears around that time, in such cases as Muller v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Response to Commentators

26 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

That is the legacy of the brilliant Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

The Taft Court: Law, History, and the Jurisprudence of Federalism

24 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

Later the same year the even more conservative and inflexible Pierce Butler replaced the moderate William R. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Building the Court

21 Feb 2024, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger

Consider, for instance, the end of the Court’s per curiam opinion in Bush v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

A Perpetual Monopoly

21 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

In 1918, in Hammer v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

A Reality Check on "Officers of the United States" at the Founding

19 Feb 2024, 8:57 am by John Mikhail

Much of the evidence I discuss here has been ignored or overlooked in the existing scholarship on Section Three, and most of it does not appear in any of the briefs in Trump v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

The Four Constitutional Narratives of the Taft Court

17 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

Majoritarianism, associated with Oliver Wendell Holmes, held that courts should defer to the dominant view of the majority, as expressed by legislatures rather than the common law. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

SEC Chair Speaks on AI, Finance, Movies, and the Law

15 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

That year also saw YLS faculty member William O. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

Comments on Robert Post’s Supreme Court History of the Taft Court, Part IV, The Taft Court as an Institution

15 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., by contrast, was a legal positivist. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Why Was Taft a Better Chief Justice than President?

14 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

” [34] There were still cases like Brown v. [read post]