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National Pork Is A Bibb Case, Not A Pike Case, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason Nov 2022

National Pork Is A Bibb Case, Not A Pike Case, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason

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In October 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a Ninth Circuit case out of California, dismissing a challenge to Proposition 12, which, inter alia, bans the sale of wholesome pork (without regard to where it was produced) from the offspring of breeding sows confined in a manner California voters consider “cruel.” National Pork thus puts the Court in the position of choosing between the often-criticized undue-burden strand of the dormant Commerce Clause and California’s request that the Court approve its ban on out-of-state pork not because of the products’ qualities, but …


Solving The Congressional Review Act’S Conundrum, Cary Coglianese Sep 2022

Solving The Congressional Review Act’S Conundrum, Cary Coglianese

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Congress routinely enacts statutes that require federal agencies to adopt specific regulations. When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, for example, it mandated that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopt an anti-corruption regulation requiring energy companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments. Although the Dodd-Frank Act specifically required the SEC to adopt this disclosure requirement, the agency’s eventual regulation was also, like other administrative rules, subject to disapproval by Congress under a process outlined in a separate statute known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

After the SEC issued its …


The Pennhurst Doctrines And The Lost Disability History Of The "New Federalism", Karen Tani Jun 2022

The Pennhurst Doctrines And The Lost Disability History Of The "New Federalism", Karen Tani

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This Article reconstructs the litigation over an infamous institution for people with disabilities—Pennhurst State School & Hospital—and demonstrates that litigation’s powerful and underappreciated significance for American life and law. It is a tale of two legacies. In U.S. disability history, Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital is a celebrated case. The 1977 trial court decision recognized a constitutional “right to habilitation” and ordered the complete closure of an overcrowded, dehumanizing facility. For people concerned with present-day mass incarceration, the case retains relevance as an example of court-ordered abolition.

For those outside the world of deinstitutionalization and disability rights, however, …


Brief Of Professors Michael Knoll And Ruth Mason As Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners In National Pork Producers Council V. Ross, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason Jun 2022

Brief Of Professors Michael Knoll And Ruth Mason As Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners In National Pork Producers Council V. Ross, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason

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The district court erred when it concluded that because Proposition 12 applies only to in-state sales, it could not be extraterritorial. On the contrary, because California regulates pork production based on domestic, inbound, and outbound sales, its regulation is internally inconsistent and overbroad. As an obligation of interstate comity, this Court has understood extraterritoriality to require the basis of regulation to be internally consistent. A regulation is internally consistent when, if every state regulated using the same nexus as the challenged state, cross-border commercial activity would not be regulated by more than one state. Proposition 12 cannot meet this basic …


Keeping Our Distinctions Straight: A Response To “Originalism: Standard And Procedure”, Mitchell N. Berman Jan 2022

Keeping Our Distinctions Straight: A Response To “Originalism: Standard And Procedure”, Mitchell N. Berman

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For half a century, moral philosophers have distinguished between a “standard” that makes acts right and a “decision procedure” by which agents can determine whether any given contemplated act is right, which is to say whether it satisfies the standard. In “Originalism: Standard and Procedure,” Stephen Sachs argues that the same distinction applies to the constitutional domain and that clear grasp of the difference strengthens the case for originalism because theorists who emphasize the infirmities of originalism as a decision procedure frequently but mistakenly infer that those flaws also cast doubt on originalism as a standard. This invited response agrees …


How Practices Make Principles, And How Principles Make Rules, Mitchell N. Berman Jan 2022

How Practices Make Principles, And How Principles Make Rules, Mitchell N. Berman

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The most fundamental question in general jurisprudence concerns what makes it the case that the law has the content that it does. This article offers a novel answer. According to the theory it christens “principled positivism,” legal practices ground legal principles, and legal principles determine legal rules. This two-level account of the determination of legal content differs from Hart’s celebrated theory in two essential respects: in relaxing Hart’s requirement that fundamental legal notions depend for their existence on judicial consensus; and in assigning weighted contributory legal norms—“principles”—an essential role in the determination of legal rights, duties, powers, and permissions. Drawing …


No More January Sixths: A Constitutional Proposal To Take Politics Out Of Presidential Election Mechanics, Paul Boudreaux Jan 2022

No More January Sixths: A Constitutional Proposal To Take Politics Out Of Presidential Election Mechanics, Paul Boudreaux

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Deferring To Foreign Courts, Maggie Gardner Jan 2022

Deferring To Foreign Courts, Maggie Gardner

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Office Of The Chief Circuit Judge, Marin K. Levy, Jon O. Newman Jan 2022

The Office Of The Chief Circuit Judge, Marin K. Levy, Jon O. Newman

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Digital Civil Procedure, David Freeman Engstrom Jan 2022

Digital Civil Procedure, David Freeman Engstrom

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Reflections On The Nexus Of Procedure And History: The Example Of Modern American Arbitration, Amalia D. Kessler Jan 2022

Reflections On The Nexus Of Procedure And History: The Example Of Modern American Arbitration, Amalia D. Kessler

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Protests, The Press, And First Amendment Rights Before And After The “Floyd Caselaw”, Peter Jacobs Jan 2022

Protests, The Press, And First Amendment Rights Before And After The “Floyd Caselaw”, Peter Jacobs

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Amazon's Neighborhood Watch, Jackson Eskay Jan 2022

Amazon's Neighborhood Watch, Jackson Eskay

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Eye In The Sky Delivers (And Influences) What You Buy, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky, Michal Lavi Jan 2022

The Eye In The Sky Delivers (And Influences) What You Buy, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky, Michal Lavi

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Public Square Has Eyes (Or Cameras): Anonymous Speech Under The First And Fourth Amendments In The Age Of Facial Recognition, Apratim Vidyarthi Jan 2022

The Public Square Has Eyes (Or Cameras): Anonymous Speech Under The First And Fourth Amendments In The Age Of Facial Recognition, Apratim Vidyarthi

Prize Winning Papers

Winner of Penn Law's 2022 Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize for the best paper in the field of constitutional law.


Beyond Sisyphus: Some Thoughts On Electoral College Reform, Jack N. Rakove Jan 2022

Beyond Sisyphus: Some Thoughts On Electoral College Reform, Jack N. Rakove

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Hague Convention On Choice Of Court Agreements: A Critical Assessment, Gary Born Jan 2022

The Hague Convention On Choice Of Court Agreements: A Critical Assessment, Gary Born

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Past And Future Of Procedure Scholarship, James E. Pfander Jan 2022

The Past And Future Of Procedure Scholarship, James E. Pfander

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Turning To The States: Why Voting Rights Advocates Should Bring Voter Id Challenges To State Courts And How To Identify A Friendly Forum—Lessons From The Post-Crawford Decisions, Carolyn F. Rice Jan 2022

Turning To The States: Why Voting Rights Advocates Should Bring Voter Id Challenges To State Courts And How To Identify A Friendly Forum—Lessons From The Post-Crawford Decisions, Carolyn F. Rice

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Predicting, Up And Down: A Framework For Legal Prediction, Joseph Avery Jan 2022

Predicting, Up And Down: A Framework For Legal Prediction, Joseph Avery

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Collapse Of The Federal Rules System, David Marcus Jan 2022

The Collapse Of The Federal Rules System, David Marcus

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Jan 2022

Masthead

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Arrests Regulatory Law On Climate And Sustainable Power, Steven Ferrey Jan 2022

Supreme Court Arrests Regulatory Law On Climate And Sustainable Power, Steven Ferrey

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Dred Scott And Asian Americans, Gabriel J. Chin Jan 2022

Dred Scott And Asian Americans, Gabriel J. Chin

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Democracy And Demography, Paul Schiff Berman, Neal S. Mehrotra, Kathryn C. Sadasivan Jan 2022

Democracy And Demography, Paul Schiff Berman, Neal S. Mehrotra, Kathryn C. Sadasivan

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Smith’S Last Stand? Free Exercise And Foster Care Exceptionalism, James G. Dwyer Jan 2022

Smith’S Last Stand? Free Exercise And Foster Care Exceptionalism, James G. Dwyer

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Revenge Porn In The Shadow Of The First Amendment, Roni Rosenberg, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg Jan 2022

Revenge Porn In The Shadow Of The First Amendment, Roni Rosenberg, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Civil Rico Standing For Misleading Pharmaceutical Marketing In Painters Health Care Fund V. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Tristan Lim Jan 2022

Civil Rico Standing For Misleading Pharmaceutical Marketing In Painters Health Care Fund V. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Tristan Lim

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Denying The Violence: The Missing Constitutional Law Of Conquest, Juan F. Perea Jan 2022

Denying The Violence: The Missing Constitutional Law Of Conquest, Juan F. Perea

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Runaway Presidential Power Over Diplomacy, Jean Galbraith Jan 2022

The Runaway Presidential Power Over Diplomacy, Jean Galbraith

All Faculty Scholarship

The President claims exclusive control over diplomacy within our constitutional system. Relying on this claim, executive branch lawyers repeatedly reject congressional mandates regarding international engagement. In their view, Congress cannot specify what the policy of the United States is with respect to foreign corruption, cannot bar a technology-focused agency from communicating with China, cannot impose notice requirements for withdrawal from a treaty with Russia, cannot instruct Treasury officials how to vote in the World Bank, and cannot require the disclosure of a trade-related report. And these are just a few of many examples from recent years. The President’s assertedly exclusive …