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Constituciones Duraderas – Una Crítica Democrática (Enduring Constitutions – A Democratic Critique), Allan C. Hutchinson, Joel Colon-Rios
Constituciones Duraderas – Una Crítica Democrática (Enduring Constitutions – A Democratic Critique), Allan C. Hutchinson, Joel Colon-Rios
Allan C. Hutchinson
This paper argues that formal constitutions and their institutional paraphernalia do more to inhibit and mitigate the emancipatory potential of democracy than to nurture and realize it. Spanish Abstract: La relación entre democracia y constituciones es larga y turbulenta. La tendencia de los que se inclinan hacia el lado constitucionalista ha sido la de percibir a la democracia como una amenaza al orden político y a la preservación de ciertos valores considerados importantes, mientras que los que adoptan una postura democrática, más que cualquier otra cosa, tienden a tratar a las constituciones como un obstáculo a la participación popular. En …
The Dual Meaning Of Evidence-Based Judicial Review Of Legislation, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
The Dual Meaning Of Evidence-Based Judicial Review Of Legislation, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Response To “Necessary To The Security Of Free States: The Second Amendment As The Auxiliary Right Of Federalism”, William G. Merkel
Response To “Necessary To The Security Of Free States: The Second Amendment As The Auxiliary Right Of Federalism”, William G. Merkel
William G. Merkel
No abstract provided.
Some Advice For President-Elect Donald Trump, Alan E. Garfield
Some Advice For President-Elect Donald Trump, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Intent: The Illinois Supreme Court's Use Of The Record In Interpreting The 1970 Constitution, 8 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 189 (1974), Ann Lousin
Ann M. Lousin
No abstract provided.
Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
Robert L Tsai
The essay strives for a better understanding of the myths, symbols, categories of power, and images deployed by the Supreme Court to signal how we ought to think about its authority. Taking examples from free speech jurisprudence, the essay proceeds in three steps. First, Tsai argues that the First Amendment constitutes a deep source of cultural authority for the Court. As a result, linguistic and doctrinal innovation in the free speech area have been at least as bold and imaginative as that in areas like the Commerce Clause. Second, in turning to cognitive theory, he distinguishes between formal legal argumentation …
Constitutional Borrowing, Robert L. Tsai
Constitutional Borrowing, Robert L. Tsai
Robert L Tsai
Borrowing from one domain to promote ideas in another domain is a staple of constitutional decisionmaking. Precedents, arguments, concepts, tropes, and heuristics all can be carried across doctrinal boundaries for purposes of persuasion. Yet the practice itself remains underanalyzed. This Article seeks to bring greater theoretical attention to the matter. It defines what constitutional borrowing is and what it is not, presents a typology that describes its common forms, undertakes a principled defense of borrowing, and identifies some of the risks involved. The authors' examples draw particular attention to places where legal mechanisms and ideas migrate between fields of law …
Democracy's Handmaid, Robert L. Tsai
Democracy's Handmaid, Robert L. Tsai
Robert L Tsai
Democratic theory presupposes open channels of dialogue, but focuses almost exclusively on matters of institutional design writ large. The philosophy of language explicates linguistic infrastructure, but often avoids exploring the political significance of its findings. In this Article, Tsai draws from the two disciplines to reach new insights about the democracy enhancing qualities of popular constitutional language. Employing examples from the founding era, the struggle for black civil rights, the religious awakening of the last two decades, and the search for gay equality, he presents a model of constitutional dialogue that emphasizes common modalities and mobilized vernacular. According to this …
John Brown's Constitution, Robert L. Tsai
John Brown's Constitution, Robert L. Tsai
Robert L Tsai
It will surprise many Americans to learn that before John Brown and his men briefly captured Harper’s Ferry, they authored and ratified a Provisional Constitution. This deliberative act built upon the achievements of the group to establish a Free Kansas, during which time Brown penned an analogue to the Declaration of Independence. These acts of writing, coupled with Brown’s trial tactics after his arrest, cast doubts on claims that the man was a lunatic or on a suicide mission. Instead, they suggest that John Brown aimed to be a radical statesman, one who turned to extreme tactics but nevertheless remained …
The Death Penalty In The Twenty-First Century , Stephen B. Bright, Edward Chikofsky, Laurie Ekstrand, Harriet C. Ganson, Paul D. Kamenar, Robert E. Morin, William G. Otis, Jasmin Raskin, Ira P. Robbins, Diann Rust-Tierney, Charles F. Shilling, Andrew L. Sooner, Ronald J. Rabak, David V. Drehle, James Wootton
The Death Penalty In The Twenty-First Century , Stephen B. Bright, Edward Chikofsky, Laurie Ekstrand, Harriet C. Ganson, Paul D. Kamenar, Robert E. Morin, William G. Otis, Jasmin Raskin, Ira P. Robbins, Diann Rust-Tierney, Charles F. Shilling, Andrew L. Sooner, Ronald J. Rabak, David V. Drehle, James Wootton
Jamin Raskin
No abstract provided.
Independent Agencies In The United States: The Responsibilities Of Public Lawyers, Marshall J. Breger, Gary Edles
Independent Agencies In The United States: The Responsibilities Of Public Lawyers, Marshall J. Breger, Gary Edles
Gary Edles
Independent federal agencies occupy a special constitutional position in the governmental structure. Their stock-in-trade is the expert, apolitical resolution of regulatory issues. They are supposedly “independent” of the political will of the executive branch. Because most are multi-member organizations, they are also perceived as accommodating diverse views and able to prevent extreme outcomes through the compromise inherent in the process of collegial decision-making. But such a view is not universally held. A well known examination of such agencies in the 1930s described them uncharitably as a “headless ‘fourth branch’ of government, a haphazard deposit of irresponsible agencies and uncoordinated powers.” …
Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
Ann Shalleck
No abstract provided.
Before Election Day, Some Reminders Of America's Greatness, Alan E. Garfield
Before Election Day, Some Reminders Of America's Greatness, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Brief Of Amicus Curiae Academic Authors And Legal Scholars In Support Of Defendants Appellees And Affirmance, Nos. 12-14676-Ff, 12-15147-Ff (April 25, 2013), David R. Hansen, Peter A. Jazsi, Pamela Samuelson, Jason Schultz, Rebecca Tushnet
Brief Of Amicus Curiae Academic Authors And Legal Scholars In Support Of Defendants Appellees And Affirmance, Nos. 12-14676-Ff, 12-15147-Ff (April 25, 2013), David R. Hansen, Peter A. Jazsi, Pamela Samuelson, Jason Schultz, Rebecca Tushnet
David R Hansen
No abstract provided.
Lost Fidelities, Barry Cushman
Lost Fidelities, Barry Cushman
Barry Cushman
Owen Roberts was accused of a variety of things in 1937, but “fidelity” was not among them. Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Professor Felix Frankfurter were among many who accused Roberts of performing, as Frankfurter put it, a jurisprudential “somersault” “incapable of being attributed to a single factor relevant to the professed judicial process.” To Frankfurter, it was “all painful beyond words,” and gave him “a sickening feeling which is aroused when moral standards are adulterated in a convent.” Yet when Roberts announced his retirement from the Court eight years later, Chief Justice Stone, along with now-Justices Frankfurter and Robert …
No Praise For Process Federalism: The Political Safeguards Mirage And The Necessity Of Substantial, Substantive Judicial Review, Tuan Samahon
Tuan Samahon
No abstract provided.
Town Of Greece And City Of Saguenay: Non-Establishment Principles With Or Without An Establishment Clause, 14 First Amend. L. Rev. 343 (2016), Donald L. Beschle
Town Of Greece And City Of Saguenay: Non-Establishment Principles With Or Without An Establishment Clause, 14 First Amend. L. Rev. 343 (2016), Donald L. Beschle
Donald L. Beschle
No abstract provided.
Testimony On Unmanned Aircraft Systems Rules And Regulations, Stephen E. Henderson
Testimony On Unmanned Aircraft Systems Rules And Regulations, Stephen E. Henderson
Stephen E Henderson
Test Your Knowledge Of Church And State, Alan E. Garfield
Test Your Knowledge Of Church And State, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Take Our Quiz About Constitutional Law, Judith L. Ritter
Take Our Quiz About Constitutional Law, Judith L. Ritter
Judith L Ritter
No abstract provided.
Equality: A Test On Equal Protection, Alan E. Garfield
Equality: A Test On Equal Protection, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Implied Vs. Fundamental Freedom: A Test, Alan E. Garfield
Implied Vs. Fundamental Freedom: A Test, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
A Quiz On Federal Power And States’ Rights, Alan E. Garfield
A Quiz On Federal Power And States’ Rights, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Conundrums, Alan E. Garfield
Rlupia And The Limits Of Religious Institutionalism, Zachary A. Bray
Rlupia And The Limits Of Religious Institutionalism, Zachary A. Bray
Zachary Bray
What special protections, if any, should religious organizations receive from local land use controls? The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”)—a deeply flawed statute—has been a magnet for controversy since its passage in 2000. Yet until recently, RLUIPA has played little role in debates about “religious institutionalism,” a set of ideas that suggest religious institutions play a distinctive role in developing the framework for religious liberty and that they deserve comparably distinctive deference and protection. This is starting to change: RLUIPA’s magnetic affinity for controversy has begun to connect conflicts over religious land use with larger debates about …
Disaggregating Corpus Christi: The Illiberal Implications Of Hobby Lobby's Right To Free Exercise, Katharine Jackson
Disaggregating Corpus Christi: The Illiberal Implications Of Hobby Lobby's Right To Free Exercise, Katharine Jackson
Katharine Jackson
This paper first examines and critiques the group rights to religious exercise derived from the three ontologies of the corporation suggested by different legal conceptions of corporate personhood often invoked by Courts. Finding the implicated groups rights inimical to individual religious freedom, the paper then presents an argument as to why a discourse of intra-corporate toleration and voluntariness does a better job at protecting religious liberty.
Children Of Two Logics: A Way Into Canadian Constitutional Culture, Benjamin Berger
Children Of Two Logics: A Way Into Canadian Constitutional Culture, Benjamin Berger
Benjamin L. Berger
Through an analysis of the Canadian case, this article explores the tension between the universal and the particular in modern constitutional imagination, arguing that the points of friction between these two “logics” of constitutionalism are invaluable entry points into understanding the defining features of various constitutional cultures. The article argues that to understand Canadian constitutional culture, both at the structural level and also in the finer strokes surrounding given issues, one must appreciate that Canadians are the children of two constitutional logics: that of the local, the particular, and harmonious relations between diverse communities achieved through political compromise, and that …
A Plea For Constitutional Balance, Stephen M. Feldman
A Plea For Constitutional Balance, Stephen M. Feldman
Stephen M. Feldman
Our Divine Constitution, David Schraub
Re-Examining Customary International Law And The Federal Courts: An Introduction, Anthony J. Bellia
Re-Examining Customary International Law And The Federal Courts: An Introduction, Anthony J. Bellia
Anthony J. Bellia
Legal scholars have debated intensely the role of customary international law in the American federal system. The debate involves serious questions surrounding the United States's constitutional structure, foreign relations, and human rights. Despite an impressive body of scholarship, the debate has stood at an impasse in recent years, without either side garnering a consensus. This symposium–Re-examining Customary International Law and the Federal Courts–aspires to help advance the debate over the status of customary international law in the federal courts.
The symposium received thoughtful and constructive contributions from Professors Curtis A. Bradley, Bradford R. Clark, Andrew Kent, Carlos M. Vizquez, and …