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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
How The Supreme Court Talks About The Press (And Why We Should Care), Helen Norton
How The Supreme Court Talks About The Press (And Why We Should Care), Helen Norton
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I Call Rigamarole (Or Taradiddle) On 'Originalist' Justices, Rachel A. Van Cleave
I Call Rigamarole (Or Taradiddle) On 'Originalist' Justices, Rachel A. Van Cleave
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Last week, while Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was holding forth about how she applies originalism, invoking her mentor and former boss Justice Antonin Scalia, current Supreme Court justices were undermining an originalist opinion authored by Scalia. Nominee Barrett explained originalism: “I understand [the Constitution] to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesn’t change over time, and it’s not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it.”
Oral arguments in Torres v. Madrid make clear that, for some justices, originalism is appropriate, except when …
Foreword, National Injunctions: What Does The Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux
Foreword, National Injunctions: What Does The Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux
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This Foreword is to the 27th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference, National Injunctions: What Does the Future Hold?, which was hosted by The Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado Law School, on Apr. 5, 2019.
On Creativity In Constitutional Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
On Creativity In Constitutional Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
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In the present article a particular aspect of constitutional interpretation will be considered. This aspect is called "creative" and involves retrieving the meaning of an object of interpretation. It is with regard to this particular aspect or moment of interpretation that creativity is often viewed as something to be avoided, to be shunned. If the task at hand is to "retrieve" some meaning, then the idea that this meaning can be created, in whole or in part, seems quite simply antithetical to the enterprise at hand. It suffices to note that many jurists and legal thinkers believe that interpretation as …
Book Review, Derek Kiernan-Johnson
Reluctant Judicial Factfinding: When Minimalism And Judicial Modesty Go Too Far, Scott A. Moss
Reluctant Judicial Factfinding: When Minimalism And Judicial Modesty Go Too Far, Scott A. Moss
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An External Perspective On The Nature Of Noneconomic Compensatory Damages And Their Regulation, Ronald J. Allen, Alexia Brunet, Susan Spies Roth
An External Perspective On The Nature Of Noneconomic Compensatory Damages And Their Regulation, Ronald J. Allen, Alexia Brunet, Susan Spies Roth
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Beyond Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
Judges And Federalism: A Comment On "Justice Kennedy's Vision Of Federalism", Robert F. Nagel
Judges And Federalism: A Comment On "Justice Kennedy's Vision Of Federalism", Robert F. Nagel
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Authorizing Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
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Playing Defense, Robert F. Nagel
Playing Defense, Robert F. Nagel
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Noting that the Romer opinion condemns the motives behind Amendment 2 without pausing even briefly to examine the social context in which it was enacted, Professor Nagel describes the decision as a model of the intolerant impulse in action. He traces this impulse to the Justices' unwillingness to examine their own role--and that of the rest of the constitutional law establishment--in creating the underlying conditions that produced Amendment 2.
In order to identify those conditions, Professor Nagel analyzes the primary document used by Colorado for Family Values during its campaign on behalf of the initiative. He argues that this document …
A Text Is Just A Text, Paul F. Campos
An American Perspective On Environmental Impact Assessment In Australia, Mark Squillace
An American Perspective On Environmental Impact Assessment In Australia, Mark Squillace
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Terminator 2, Robert F. Nagel
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
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The apex of American legal thought is embodied in two types of writings: the federal appellate opinion and the law review article. In this Article, the author criticizes the whole enterprise of doctrinal constitutional law scholarship, using a recent U.S. Supreme Court case and a Harvard Law Review article as quintessential examples of the dominant genre. In a rhetorical tour de force, the author argues that most of modern constitutional scholarship is really advocacy in the guise of scholarship. Such an approach to legal scholarship may have some merit as a strategic move towards a political end; however, it has …
Three Mistakes About Interpretation, Paul Campos
Name-Calling And The Clear Error Rule, Robert F. Nagel
Name-Calling And The Clear Error Rule, Robert F. Nagel
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Disagreement And Interpretation, Robert F. Nagel
Progressive Free Speech And The Uneasy Case For Campus Hate Codes, Robert F. Nagel
Progressive Free Speech And The Uneasy Case For Campus Hate Codes, Robert F. Nagel
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Liberals And Balancing, Robert F. Nagel
Book Review, Richard B. Collins
Political Pressure And Judging In Constitutional Cases, Robert F. Nagel
Political Pressure And Judging In Constitutional Cases, Robert F. Nagel
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No abstract provided.
Justice Scalia And The Elusive Idea Of Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce, Richard B. Collins
Justice Scalia And The Elusive Idea Of Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce, Richard B. Collins
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Advice, Consent, And Influence, Robert F. Nagel
Cannibal Moves: An Essay On The Metamorphoses Of The Legal Distinction, Pierre Schlag
Cannibal Moves: An Essay On The Metamorphoses Of The Legal Distinction, Pierre Schlag
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On The Constitutional Status Of The Administrative Agencies, Harold H. Bruff
On The Constitutional Status Of The Administrative Agencies, Harold H. Bruff
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American Indians And The Bicentennial, Richard B. Collins
American Indians And The Bicentennial, Richard B. Collins
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Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel
Freedom Of Speech As Therapy, Pierre Schlag