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Full-Text Articles in Law
Hollow Hopes And Exaggerated Fears: The Canon/Anticanon In Context, Mark A. Graber
Hollow Hopes And Exaggerated Fears: The Canon/Anticanon In Context, Mark A. Graber
Faculty Scholarship
Students of American constitutionalism should add constitutional decisions made by elected officials to the constitutional canon and the constitutional anticanon. Neither the canonical nor the anticanonical constitutional decisions by the Supreme Court have produced the wonderful results or horrible evils sometimes attributed to them. In many cases, elected officials made contemporaneous constitutional decisions that had as much influence as the celebrated or condemned judicial rulings. More often than not, judicial rulings matter more as a result of changing the political dynamics than by directly changing public policy. Law students and others interested in constitutional change, for these reasons, need to …
Separation Of Powers And The Middle Way, Jack M. Beermann
Separation Of Powers And The Middle Way, Jack M. Beermann
Shorter Faculty Works
Composer Arnold Schoenberg famously once quipped that “the middle way is the one that surely does not lead to Rome.” The idea behind this thought, I gather, is that intellectual compromise does not lead to the truth. John Manning’s recently published article, Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1940 (2011), proves Schoenberg’s principle wrong, at least with regard to separation of powers. In this article, Manning, the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, persuasively demonstrates that neither extreme in current debates about separation of powers is correct, and that a true understanding …
November 2, 2011: The Establishment Clause In Shambles, Bruce Ledewitz
November 2, 2011: The Establishment Clause In Shambles, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Establishment Clause in Shambles“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
October 9, 2011: Why Does There Need To Be A Ministerial Exception?, Bruce Ledewitz
October 9, 2011: Why Does There Need To Be A Ministerial Exception?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Why Does There Need to be a Ministerial Exception?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Lochner V. New York (1905) And Kennedy V. Louisiana (2008): Judicial Reliance On Adversary Argument, Douglas E. Abrams
Lochner V. New York (1905) And Kennedy V. Louisiana (2008): Judicial Reliance On Adversary Argument, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called Lochner v. New York (1905) “one of the most ill-starred decisions that [the Supreme Court ever rendered.” The Justices’ deliberations preceding the 5-4 decision demonstrate the courts’ reliance on advocacy in the adversary system of civil and criminal justice. The stark imbalance between the state’s “incredibly sketchy” brief and Joseph Lochner’s sterling submission may have determined Lochner’s outcome, and thus may have changed the course of constitutional history, by leading two Justices to join the majority on the central question of whether New York’s maximum-hours law for bakery workers was a reasonable public health …
Reconciling Chevron, Mead, And The Review Of Agency Discretion: Source Of Law And The Standards Of Judicial Review, Michael P. Healy
Reconciling Chevron, Mead, And The Review Of Agency Discretion: Source Of Law And The Standards Of Judicial Review, Michael P. Healy
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Although the Supreme Court's watershed decision in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. has been understood by many as defining the framework for judicial review of agency legal determinations, there have been longstanding questions about the application of the standards for reviewing administrative action. These questions have become more troublesome following the Supreme Court's 2001 decision in United States v. Mead Corp. Mead established that Chevron review only applies when defined requirements are met and held that so-called Skidmore deference applies when Chevron deference does not apply. Surveying the aftermath of Mead and its effect on the …
Polls, The Public, And Popular Perspectives On Constitutional Issues, Bruce G. Peabody, Peter J. Woolley
Polls, The Public, And Popular Perspectives On Constitutional Issues, Bruce G. Peabody, Peter J. Woolley
Res Gestae
No abstract provided.
Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2011 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute
Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2011 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute
Supreme Court Overviews
No abstract provided.
Pliva V. Mensing And Its Implications, Brian Wolfman, Dena Feldman
Pliva V. Mensing And Its Implications, Brian Wolfman, Dena Feldman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in PLIVA Inc. v. Mensing will immunize generic drug manufacturers facing failure-to-warn claims from state-law liability, and may also have implications for preemption jurisprudence more generally, says attorney Brian Wolfman and co-author Dena Feldman in this BNA Insight. The authors analyze the ruling, and offer their views on the questions that PLIVA raises about the ongoing vitality of the presumption against preemption, the standard for determining ‘‘impossibility’’ preemption, and the propriety of deference to an agency’s views on preemption.
Schneckloth V. Bustamonte: History’S Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly, Brian Gallini
Schneckloth V. Bustamonte: History’S Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly, Brian Gallini
School of Law Faculty Publications and Presentations
The officer walking the beat has numerous tools at her disposal to effectuate a warrantless search, the most popular of which is the consent search. Academics, courts, and the public appear skeptical of current consent search practices; so, how did we get here? Step back to 1969 when President Nixon appointed Warren Burger to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. At that time, many believed Burger’s “law and order” background foretold Miranda’s overruling. That never happened; a handful of commentators and historians therefore view the Burger Court’s criminal procedure decisions as anticlimactic. That view overlooks the …
July 2, 2011: What Did I Learn From The Huffington Post Piece?, Bruce Ledewitz
July 2, 2011: What Did I Learn From The Huffington Post Piece?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What Did I Learn From the Huffington Post Piece?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
A Short History Of Sex And Citizenship: The Historians' Amicus Brief In Flores-Villar V. United States, Kristin Collins
A Short History Of Sex And Citizenship: The Historians' Amicus Brief In Flores-Villar V. United States, Kristin Collins
Faculty Scholarship
The historians’ amicus brief that accompanies this essay was submitted to the Supreme Court in Flores-Villar v. United States, an equal protection challenge to federal statutes that regulate the citizenship status of foreign-born children of American parents. When the parents of such children are unmarried, federal law encumbers the ability of American fathers to secure citizenship for their children, while providing American mothers with a nearly unfettered ability to do the same. The general question before the Court in Flores-Villar – and a question that the Court has addressed in sum and substance on two other occasions during the last …
June 26, 2011: The Political Irresponsibility Of Douglas Laycock, Bruce Ledewitz
June 26, 2011: The Political Irresponsibility Of Douglas Laycock, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Political Irresponsibility of Douglas Laycock“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 15, 2011: Weird Second Circuit Decision, Bruce Ledewitz
June 15, 2011: Weird Second Circuit Decision, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ Weird Second Circuit Decision“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 8, 2011: Torture Works, Bruce Ledewitz
May 8, 2011: Torture Works, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Torture Works“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Israel's Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher, Issi Rosen-Zvi
Israel's Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher, Issi Rosen-Zvi
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This Essay reports the results of an empirical study of the Israel Supreme Court (ISC). It covers the outcomes of 3,562 cases (as of this writing), all decided in 2006 and 2007, and describes the cases by subject area, litigant-pair characteristics, and source of jurisdiction - mandatory or discretionary. In mandatory-jurisdiction cases ending with clear affirmances or reversals, the ISC affirmed lower court rulings in about 75% of district court criminal case appeals and about 67% of district court civil case appeals. In discretionary- jurisdiction cases, the ISC rarely granted review. It agreed to review about 6 % of petitions …
April 3, 2011: The Legal Background Of Burning The Qur’An, Bruce Ledewitz
April 3, 2011: The Legal Background Of Burning The Qur’An, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Legal Background of Burning the Qur’an“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Punitive Damages Vs. The Death Penalty: In Search Of A Unified Approach To Jury Discretion And Due Process Of Law, José F. Anderson
Punitive Damages Vs. The Death Penalty: In Search Of A Unified Approach To Jury Discretion And Due Process Of Law, José F. Anderson
All Faculty Scholarship
The role of the jury in awarding monetary damages to plaintiffs in a wide range of civil cases has captured the attention of the media, contemporary non-fiction writers, and reform-minded politicians in recent years. Particular attention has been focused on huge jury awards, which has led many commentators to criticize the wisdom of permitting juries to move so much money from one place to another. Although the right to a jury trial, and with it the exercise of broad judicial discretion, is constitutionally based, many reform efforts have moved toward removing juries from cases both as to the subject matter …
The Last Common Law Justice: The Personal Jurisdiction Jurisprudence Of Justice John Paul Stevens, Rodger D. Citron
The Last Common Law Justice: The Personal Jurisdiction Jurisprudence Of Justice John Paul Stevens, Rodger D. Citron
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Veterans Benefits In 2010: A New Dialogue Between The Supreme Court And The Federal Circuit, Paul Gugliuzza
Veterans Benefits In 2010: A New Dialogue Between The Supreme Court And The Federal Circuit, Paul Gugliuzza
Faculty Scholarship
The Supreme Court rarely grants certiorari in a veterans benefits case. Congress gave the Federal Circuit exclusive jurisdiction over veterans appeals in 1988 but, until 2009, the Supreme Court had reviewed only two Federal Circuit veterans decisions. In the 2010 Term, however, the Court decided its second veterans case in less than two years. Although patent lawyers are familiar with a trend of increasing Supreme Court interest in the Federal Circuit’s work, little attention has been paid to the similar, albeit incipient, trend that may be emerging in the field of veterans law.
In this contribution to the annual Federal …
Courts, Social Change, And Political Backlash, Michael Klarman
Courts, Social Change, And Political Backlash, Michael Klarman
Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture
On March 31, 2011, Professor of Law, Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s thirty-first annual Philip A. Hart Lecture: “Courts, Social Change, and Political Backlash.” Included here are the speaker's notes from this lecture.
Michael Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. Formerly, he was the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race.
Klarman holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a D.Phil. …
India And Pakistan: A Tale Of Judicial Appointments, Shubhankar Dam
India And Pakistan: A Tale Of Judicial Appointments, Shubhankar Dam
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Recent judicial appointments in India and Pakistan have led to battles between their respective judicial and executive branches. In a moment of remarkable constitutional coincidence, two appointments were set aside in India and Pakistan last week. First, India's Supreme Court invalidated the appointment of P. J. Thomas to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Days later, Pakistan's Supreme Court invalidated Deedar Shah's appointment to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
February 26, 2011: The Power Of The President Not To Defend The Law, Bruce Ledewitz
February 26, 2011: The Power Of The President Not To Defend The Law, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Power of the President Not to Defend the Law“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 17, 2011: Shari’Ah And Constitutionalism, Bruce Ledewitz
February 17, 2011: Shari’Ah And Constitutionalism, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Shari’ah and Constitutionalism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 3, 2011: The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause, Bruce Ledewitz
January 3, 2011: The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Viability Of Multi-Party Litigation As A Tool For Social Engineering Six Decades After The Restrictive Covenant Cases, José F. Anderson
The Viability Of Multi-Party Litigation As A Tool For Social Engineering Six Decades After The Restrictive Covenant Cases, José F. Anderson
All Faculty Scholarship
Six decades ago, a group of lawyers sought ways to overturn the racially restrictive covenants that were common across the United States. These restrictions on integrated neighborhoods were the first legal battleground of the civil rights movement using the courts of civil justice to remove what many thought were immoral restrictions on the rights of free people. The most famous of those cases was Shelley v. Kraemer, but the doctrine that emerged from that particular case was actually a series of separate, multi-party lawsuits in various locations, using teams of lawyers acting in concert with each other to achieve justice. …
Ten Years After: Bartnicki V. Vopper As Laboratory For First Amendment Advocacy And Analysis, Eric Easton
Ten Years After: Bartnicki V. Vopper As Laboratory For First Amendment Advocacy And Analysis, Eric Easton
All Faculty Scholarship
How many ways can one approach a First Amendment analysis? What influences a lawyer or a judge to select one analytical approach over another? And what is the long-term effect of a court's choice of one over another? In Bartnicki v. Vopper, a 2001 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court considered federal and state statutes prohibiting the disclosure of illegally intercepted telephone conversations, we are privileged to have a small laboratory through which to study the first two questions. And, from the vantage point of ten years, we ought to be able to make some informed predictions as to …
The Architecture Of First Amendment Free Speech, Edward J. Eberle
The Architecture Of First Amendment Free Speech, Edward J. Eberle
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Commerce In The Commons: A Unified Theory Of Natural Capital Regulation Under The Commerce Clause, Blake Hudson
Commerce In The Commons: A Unified Theory Of Natural Capital Regulation Under The Commerce Clause, Blake Hudson
Journal Articles
Scholars continue to debate the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause authority and whether fluctuations in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause jurisprudence place federal environmental regulatory authority at risk. Yet when one analyzes major Commerce Clause cases involving resource regulation since the beginning of the modern regulatory state, a consistent theme emerges: both the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of Appeal have consistently upheld federal authority to regulate depletable natural resources, the appropriation of which is non-excludable - key characteristics of a commons. Commerce Clause jurisprudence can be interpreted as treating appropriation of this natural capital, here described as “privatized …
Electing Our Judges And Judicial Independence: The Supreme Court's "Triple Whammy", Martin Belsky
Electing Our Judges And Judicial Independence: The Supreme Court's "Triple Whammy", Martin Belsky
Akron Law Faculty Publications
In this article, Martin Belsky makes the case for judicial selection based on merit, as opposed to popular elections. Belsky cites Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company and the recent defeat of three Iowa supreme court justices because of their opinion in a controversial gay marriage case for the proposition that judicial elections can, and do, yield unjust results. Belsky asserts the need for judicial independence, but concludes that this goal is not achievable through elections because of the "triple whammy" of constitutional limitations: (1) the First Amendment protection of the right of judges and judicial candidates to give specific, …