March 7, 2023
Mary Ziegler, author of Roe: The History of A National Obsession, talks with us about her inspiration for the book, legal education surrounding Roe v. Wade, and the international response… READ MORE
January 24, 2023
In Roe: The History of a National Obsession, the leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history. In this… READ MORE
July 9, 2021
Paul W. Kahn— Project and system views of law are in deep tension, but this is not a tension that needs to be resolved at an abstract level. We live… READ MORE
March 16, 2021
Sal Nicolazzo— In his Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms—the precursor to The Wealth of Nations—Adam Smith defines “the objects of police” as “the cheapness of commodities, public security and… READ MORE
February 26, 2021
Steven B. Smith— The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump ended in an acquittal by a vote of 57-43. Democrats could take some comfort in the fact that it was… READ MORE
January 28, 2021
Jack M. Balkin— The two important federal challenges brewing in the courts—the struggle over California’s Proposition 8 and the challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act—converged on the Supreme… READ MORE
January 21, 2021
Russell Crandall— A hallmark of the tough-on-crime era was the militarization of domestic law enforcement, especially on the anti drug front. Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams were first formed… READ MORE
December 2, 2020
Thomas P. Crocker— One of the intriguing developments during the COVID-19 crisis is how absent claims about presidential power to solve national security crises have been. There have been no… READ MORE
October 6, 2020
William N. Eskridge Jr.— Ruth Bader Ginsburg passionately loved her family, her job as a judge, constitutional law, and opera—not always in that order. I first came to know and… READ MORE
August 25, 2020
William N. Eskridge Jr.— From the beginning of the marriage equality debate, the main critics of marriage between persons of the same sex were religious intellectuals and public figures such… READ MORE
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