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Introduction: Is the Supreme Court Failing at Its Job, or Are We Failing at Ours?
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
It is a pleasure and a privilege to write an introduction to this Symposium celebrating Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's important new book, The Case Against the Supreme Court. Chemerinsky is one of the leading constitutional ...
Scalia in the Casebooks
(University of Chicago Law Review, 2017)
In the time since Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death, much has been written about what his influence has been and what his influence will be. In this Essay, we try to quantify Scalia’s influence in law school ...
Outlaw Blues
(Michigan Law Review, 1989-05)
Mark Tushnet's new book ("Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law") is an example of how too many layers of theoretical detachment can obscure truly innovative scholarship. His fervent insistence ...
Federalism and Accountability
(California Law Review, 2007)
This article examines how one particular state institution, state attorneys general (SAGs), has operated within a unique set of institutional and political constraints to create state-based regulation with nationwide impact ...
The Inference from Authority to Interpretive Method in Constitutional and Statutory Domains
(Cornell Law Review, 2017)
Should courts interpret the Constitution as they interpret statutes? This question has been answered in a wide variety of ways. On the one hand, many scholars and jurists understand constitutional and statutory interpretation ...
Is the Constitution Special?
(Cornell Law Review, 2016)
"[W]e must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding.” If there was such a danger when Chief Justice John Marshall wrote those words, there is none today. Americans regularly assume that the Constitution ...
Economic Structure and Constitutional Structure
(Texas Law Review, 2016)
In the last four decades, the American middle class has been hollowed out, and fears are growing that economic inequality is leading to political inequality. These trends raise a troubling question: Can our constitutional ...
The Constitutional Ratchet Effect
(Cornell Law Review, 2017)
Christopher Serkin and Nelson Tebbe take an inductive and empirical approach to constitutional interpretation and elaboration. They ask whether attributes of the Constitution justify interpretive exceptionalism--that is, ...
Normalizing Erie
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
This Article argues that the Erie doctrine should be normalized by bringing it into line with ordinary doctrines of federalism. Under ordinary federalism doctrines – such as the dormant commerce clause, implied preemption, ...
The Classical Constitution and the Historical Constitution: Separated at Birth
(New York University Journal of law & Liberty, 2014)
As part of symposium on Richard Epstein’s new book, The Classical Liberal Constitution, this article points out that his purportedly historical approach is actually present-oriented, which undermines two particular parts ...