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The Shorthorn: October 28, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: October 21, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: October 14, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: September 30, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: October 7, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: September 16, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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The Shorthorn: September 23, 1960

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1960s

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Book Review: Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, Timothy Smith

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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

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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

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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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