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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 ...
Civic Virtue and the Feminine Voice in Constitutional Adjudication
(Virginia Law Review, 1986)
What is true of women's writing is also true of women's jurisprudence. This article contends that modern men and women, in general, have distinctly different perspectives on the world and that, while the masculine vision ...
Hard Cases Make Good Judges
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)
Not every constitutional case requires recourse to first principles, and indeed, most require more subtlety than such recourse can produce. The Rehnquist Court's free speech cases provide an example of the benefits of a ...
Constitutional Risks to Equal Protection in the Criminal Justice System
(Harvard Law Review, 2001)
This Note has examined the consequences of a shift in the equal protection context - a move from a traditional particularized harm perspective to a constitutional risk perspective focused on systemic harms. It has also ...
Separation of Powers: Asking a Different Question
(Williamn and Mary Law Review, 1989)
What I find most intriguing about Professor Casper's essay1 is its historical description of the founders' attitude not so much toward "separation of powers," but toward separation of powers "questions." In other words, I ...
Democracy's Distrust: Contested Values and the Decline of Expertise
(Harvard Law Review Forum, 2011)
This response to Professor Dan Kahan’s recent Harvard Foreword, Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law, argues that while Kahan accurately describes the contemporary “neutrality ...
The Use and Abuse of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation
(Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2009)
This article provides an exhaustive typology of the uses of foreign law in order to provide insight into whether foreign law can be appropriately used in constitutional interpretation, when it can be used, and what the ...
The Captures Clause
(University of Chicago Law Review, 2009)
The Captures Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress the power to "make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water." A variety of courts, scholars, politicians and others have recently cited the Clause to ...
The Four Pillars of Constitutional Doctrine
(Cardozo Law Review, 2011)
Constitutional interpretation, and thus constitutional doctrine, is inevitably controversial. Judges, scholars, lawyers, politicians, and the American public all disagree among themselves, not only about the correct ...
Justice O'Connor's Dilemma: The Baseline Question
(William and Mary Law Review, 1998)
Many commentators view City of Boerne v. Flores,' in which a divided Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), as a major defeat in the battle for religious freedom in the United ...