This essay reviews the new book, Against Constitutional Originalism by Professor Jonathan Gienapp. It shows how this important book complicates the legal theory of originalism and its understanding of the Constitution. Gienapp convincingly shows that Founding-era Americans had a very different understanding of the nature of constitutions—what they are and how they worked. The conception of the Constitution that feels natural to modern Americans actually developed gradually in the decades and centuries after the Founding and was not the original meaning. Gienapp contends that this creates foundational problems for the originalist approach to Constitutional interpretation. It exposes the fundamental misunderstanding …

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Police Officer Use Of Force And Officer-Created Jeopardy After Barnes V. Felix: The Supreme Court's Important (Albeit Incomplete) Step In The Right Direction, Cynthia Lee Aug 2025

Police Officer Use Of Force And Officer-Created Jeopardy After Barnes V. Felix: The Supreme Court's Important (Albeit Incomplete) Step In The Right Direction, Cynthia Lee

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This essay analyzes the Supreme Court’s 2025 unanimous decision in Barnes v. Felix rejecting the moment of threat doctrine that limited courts assessing the reasonableness of a law enforcement officer’s use of force. Under this narrow time-framing approach, courts were limited to considering only those facts and circumstances known to the officer at the moment of the threat, and acts occurring before the officer seized the individual that may have contributed to the dangerous situation could not be considered. Rejecting this narrow approach, the Court reaffirmed its longstanding rule that in assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s use of force …

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Personal Jurisdiction And The Fifth Amendment, Scott Dodson Aug 2025

Personal Jurisdiction And The Fifth Amendment, Scott Dodson

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The Supreme Court has avoided clarifying the relationship between federal-court personal jurisdiction, congressional statutes, and the Fifth Amendment. Until now, that is. In June 2025, the Court decided two important cases involving constraints on a federal court’s exercise of personal jurisdiction outside of Rule 4(k)(1)(A), which typically ties federal-court personal jurisdiction to state-court personal jurisdiction. This brief essay explains and analyzes those cases, situating them in the Court’s larger agenda for personal jurisdiction. It also discusses some open questions raised by the decisions and the role that personal jurisdiction in the United States may now play on the global stage.

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The King’S Two Bodies: A Study In Mediaeval Political Theology, Ernst H. Kantorowicz Aug 2025

The King’S Two Bodies: A Study In Mediaeval Political Theology, Ernst H. Kantorowicz

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1957

Call #: JC385 .K25

Contains marginalia, underlining, marginal lining, and endnotes

PDF Information: 92 pages – 8 MB

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Political Theory; Its Nature And Uses, George Kateb Aug 2025

Political Theory; Its Nature And Uses, George Kateb

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

New York, St. Martian’s Press, 1968

Call #: JA71 .K34

Contains marginalia, underlining and marginal lining.

PDF Information: 25 pages – 13.5mb

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The Tax Adviser, Volume 11, Number 11, November 1980, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Aug 2025

The Tax Adviser, Volume 11, Number 11, November 1980, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

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No abstract provided.

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Tax Trends, E. S. Linett Aug 2025

Tax Trends, E. S. Linett

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Washington Report: Irs Adopts Guidelines For Preparer Negligence Penalty, Kenneth F. Thomas, William R. Stromsem Aug 2025

Washington Report: Irs Adopts Guidelines For Preparer Negligence Penalty, Kenneth F. Thomas, William R. Stromsem

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Accounting For Vacation Pay: Is It Time To Change Your Method?, Terry R. Nygaard, Lou B. Davenport Aug 2025

Accounting For Vacation Pay: Is It Time To Change Your Method?, Terry R. Nygaard, Lou B. Davenport

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Tax Clinic, Darwin Broenen Aug 2025

Tax Clinic, Darwin Broenen

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