Introduction Law students begin to encounter the concept of a "standard of review" early in the first year. That's not surprising. First-year law students read appellate cases, and every appellate ...

Introduction When studying constitutional law, students are likely to be exposed to the idea that interpretation of the United States Constitution may include reference to what are sometimes called ...

The Download of the Week is Interim Orders, the Presidency, and Judicial Supremacy by Jack Landman Goldsmith. Here is the abstract: This essay analyzes the eighteen interim orders concerning Trump ...

Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Redistricting Texas Now is Illegal and the U.S. Department of Justice is the Reason Why on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The U.S. Department ...

J. Benton Heath (Temple University Beasley School of Law) has posted Constructing a Global Panopticon: Toward a Jurisprudence of Weaponized Interdependence (Journal of International Economic Law ...

Trace Maddox (NYU Law) has posted Ghosts of Confession Law Past, Present, and future on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Modern American confession law is a ghost of its former self. Under current Due ...

Keith E. Whittington (Yale University - Law School; Princeton University - Department of Political Science) has posted Judicial Independence As A Constitutional Construction on SSRN. Here is the ...

Nicholas Aroney (The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law; Emory University - Center for the Study of Law and Religion) has posted In Two Natures, without Confusion, without Change, ...

Jonathan Crowe (University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice) has posted The Idea of Small Justice on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Talk about social or distributive justice, at least ...

Sam Spiegelman (Pacific Legal Foundation) has posted BLIGHT MADE RIGHT: DEFECTS IN STATE CONDEMNATION LAWS AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM IN ALASKA AND BEYOND (40 Alaska L. Rev. 341 (2024)) on SSRN. Here is ...

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia University - Law School) has posted A New View of Formal Equality and a Case for Predistribution (Journal of Legal Analysis, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A ...

Christopher C. Lund (Wayne State University Law School) has posted Favoritism, Coercion, and the Establishment Clause (Michigan Law Review, Vol. 122, p. 1303, 2025 (book review)) on SSRN. Her is the ...