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Do All Dogs Go To Heaven? How Our Secular Culture Views Death, Bruce Ledewitz
Do All Dogs Go To Heaven? How Our Secular Culture Views Death, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
The One Good Thing About The Independent State Legislature Theory, Bruce Ledewitz
The One Good Thing About The Independent State Legislature Theory, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
The Common Law As Statutory Backdrop, Anita S. Krishnakumar
The Common Law As Statutory Backdrop, Anita S. Krishnakumar
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Amidst the whirl of commentary about how the U.S. Supreme Court has become increasingly textualist and what precise shape modern textualism should take, the Court’s continued reliance on one decidedly atextual interpretive tool has gone largely unnoticed — the common law. Indeed, the common law has played an underappreciated, often dispositive, gap-filling role in statutory interpretation for decades, even as the textualist revolution has sidelined other non-text-focused interpretive tools. But despite the persistent role that the common law has played in statutory interpretation cases, the use of common law rules and definitions as an interpretive resource is surprisingly understudied and …
A Way Forward After Dobbs: Human Rights Advocacy And Self-Managed Abortion In The United States, Kelly Keglovits
A Way Forward After Dobbs: Human Rights Advocacy And Self-Managed Abortion In The United States, Kelly Keglovits
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Even in the era before Dobbs, wherein the Supreme Court repeatedly classified abortion as a "fundamental right," the ability to have an abortion was inaccessible in many parts of the United States. The irony that a "fundamental right" was so difficult to exercise results from how Constitutional rights are understood, which left many open-ended avenues for states to bring restrictions. International Human Rights law, however, offers a more optimistic and accountable approach to steps forward in increasing abortion access—illustrating a need to bring a human rights-based approach home. Dobbs has eviscerated any concept of federal protections for abortion, severely worsening …
Oral Argument In Moore V. Harper And The Perils Of Finding “Compromise” On The Independent State Legislature Theory, Katherine A. Shaw
Oral Argument In Moore V. Harper And The Perils Of Finding “Compromise” On The Independent State Legislature Theory, Katherine A. Shaw
Online Publications
The Supreme Court’s cert grant last June in Moore v. Harper was an ominous note on which to end an explosive term. The grant seemed to broadcast an openness to embracing what’s known as the “independent state legislature theory,” or ISLT. It is a once-fringe idea that the U.S. Constitution, and in particular Article I’s “elections clause,” grants to state legislatures alone, and withholds from other state entities (think: courts and constitutions), the power to regulate elections for federal office.
Why The Courts Should Stop Philly Da Larry Krasner’S Impeachment Trial, Bruce Ledewitz
Why The Courts Should Stop Philly Da Larry Krasner’S Impeachment Trial, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Tragedies Of The Cultural Commons, Etienne C. Toussaint
Tragedies Of The Cultural Commons, Etienne C. Toussaint
Faculty Publications
In the United States, Black cultural expressions of democratic life that operate within specific historical-local contexts, yet reflect a shared set of sociocultural mores, have been historically crowded out of the law and policymaking process. Instead of democratic cultural discourse occurring within an open and neutral marketplace of ideas, the discursive production and consumption of democratic culture in American politics has been rivalrous. Such rivalry too often enables dominant White supremacist cultural beliefs, values, and practices to exercise their hegemony upon law’s production and meaning. The result has been tragedy for politically disempowered and socioeconomically excluded communities.
This Article uses …
Delegation At The Founding: A Response To Critics, Julian Davis Mortenson, Nicholas Bagley
Delegation At The Founding: A Response To Critics, Julian Davis Mortenson, Nicholas Bagley
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This essay responds to the wide range of commentary on Delegation at the Founding, published previously in the Columbia Law Review. The critics’ arguments deserve thoughtful consideration and a careful response. We’re happy to supply both. As a matter of eighteenth-century legal and political theory, “rulemaking” could not be neatly described as either legislative or executive based on analysis of its scope, subject, or substantive effect. To the contrary: Depending on the relationships you chose to emphasize, a given act could properly be classified as both legislative (from the perspective of the immediate actor) and also executive (from the perspective …
When It Comes To Prosecuting Trump, Merrick Garland Needs To Decide Already, Bruce Ledewitz
When It Comes To Prosecuting Trump, Merrick Garland Needs To Decide Already, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Textualism, Judicial Supremacy, And The Independent State Legislature Theory, Leah M. Litman, Katherine A. Shaw
Textualism, Judicial Supremacy, And The Independent State Legislature Theory, Leah M. Litman, Katherine A. Shaw
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This piece offers an extended critique of one aspect of the so-called "independent state legislature" theory. That theory, in brief, holds that the federal Constitution gives state legislatures, and withholds from any other state entity, the power to regulate federal elections. Proponents ground their theory in two provisions of the federal Constitution: Article I's Elections Clause, which provides that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof," and Article H's Presidential Electors Clause, which provides that "[e]ach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature …
The Midterms Were Good News For Dems, But Even Better News For The Country, Bruce Ledewitz
The Midterms Were Good News For Dems, But Even Better News For The Country, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
National Pork Is A Bibb Case, Not A Pike Case, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason
National Pork Is A Bibb Case, Not A Pike Case, Michael S. Knoll, Ruth Mason
All Faculty Scholarship
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 …
Reclaiming Establishment: Identity And The ‘Religious Equality Problem’, Faraz Sanei
Reclaiming Establishment: Identity And The ‘Religious Equality Problem’, Faraz Sanei
Faculty Scholarship
Since at least 2017, the Court has implicitly recognized a right of equal access to generally available public benefits based on the beneficiary's religious identity or status. In Carson v. Makin (2022), the Court went a step further and, for the first time, concluded that the “status-use distinction lacks a meaningful application” in both theory and practice. It then held that restrictions on the use of public benefits for sacral purposes amount to religious discrimination because they impose substantial burdens on free exercise rights. Carson's holding, and the rationale underlying it, contravene settled case law and effectively gut the Establishment …
Running On Empty: Ford V. Montana And The Folly Of Minimum Contacts, James P. George
Running On Empty: Ford V. Montana And The Folly Of Minimum Contacts, James P. George
Faculty Scholarship
Jurisdictional contests are in disarray. Criticisms date back to the issuance of International Shoe Co. v. Washington but the breakdown may be best illustrated in two recent Supreme Court opinions, the first rejecting California’s “sliding scale” that mixes general and specific contacts, the second using the discredited sliding scale to hold Ford amenable in states where accidents occurred.
California’s sliding scale is one variety of the contacts-relatedness tests, used in lower courts to have general contacts bolster weaker specific contacts. Some states—Montana and Minnesota for example—use the opposite extreme requiring a causal connection in defendant’s forum contacts, often using foreseeability …
A Law Professors’ Symposium Asks: Should We Control The U.S. Supreme Court?, Bruce Ledewitz
A Law Professors’ Symposium Asks: Should We Control The U.S. Supreme Court?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
More On The Varying Meanings Of “Congress” And “Legislature”, Michael Herz
More On The Varying Meanings Of “Congress” And “Legislature”, Michael Herz
Online Publications
In a recent Election Law Blog post regarding the Independent State Legislature doctrine, Rick Pildes observes that the term “Congress” in the U.S. Constitution sometimes means Congress acting alone and sometimes means Congress acting through legislation. Given that, it makes perfect sense that the term “legislature” can also sometimes mean the one and sometimes the other. I agree. This post just expands the intratextual analysis.
Social Justice & Equity In Higher Education: Disrupting Performative Equitable Practices, Roger Cleveland
Social Justice & Equity In Higher Education: Disrupting Performative Equitable Practices, Roger Cleveland
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Social Justice & Equity in Higher Education: Disrupting Performative Equitable Practices," given by Roger Cleveland at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.
Reproductive Rights After Dobbs, Bernadette Barton
Reproductive Rights After Dobbs, Bernadette Barton
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Reproductive Rights after Dobbs," given by Bernadette Barton at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.
Issues Of Justice And Equity In Special Education: Labels, Language, And Problems With The Medical Model Of Disability, Casey Cosgriff, Suzannah Chapman
Issues Of Justice And Equity In Special Education: Labels, Language, And Problems With The Medical Model Of Disability, Casey Cosgriff, Suzannah Chapman
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Issues of Justice and Equity in Special Education: Labels, Language, and Problems with the Medical Model of Disability," given by Casey Cosgriff and Suzannah Chapman at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.
2022 Justice Festival Program: Breakout Sessions, Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities, And Social Sciences
2022 Justice Festival Program: Breakout Sessions, Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities, And Social Sciences
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
2022 Justice Festival Program: Breakout Sessions Program.
A Little Immigration History: "It's Deja Vu All Over Again", David Grise
A Little Immigration History: "It's Deja Vu All Over Again", David Grise
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
A PowerPoint presentation, titled "A Little Immigration History: It's Deja Vu All Over Again," given by David Grise at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.
Cultural Competence In Mental Health Care, Lynn Geurin, Taunya Carpenter, Megan Cox
Cultural Competence In Mental Health Care, Lynn Geurin, Taunya Carpenter, Megan Cox
Justice Festival at Morehead State University
A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Cultural Competence in Mental Health Care," given by Lynn Geurin, Taunya Carpenter, and Megan Cox at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.
Democracy Harms And The First Amendment, Deborah Pearlstein
Democracy Harms And The First Amendment, Deborah Pearlstein
Articles
The First Amendment tolerates—has long tolerated—the regulation of certain kinds of false speech. Indeed, regulable lies are not limited to traditionally less-protected categories of speech like defamation and commercial deception. They include an array of other established speech regulations, administered by government institutions every day, from criminal laws barring perjury and other lies to government officials, to disciplinary measures by elected bodies sanctioning members for false or otherwise objectionable speech. Yet while it is easy to identify the kinds of lies that existing doctrinal categories make regulable for the personal, physical, or reputational harms they inflict on individuals¸ it has …
There’S A Secular Need For The High Holy Days. This Is Why, Bruce Ledewitz
There’S A Secular Need For The High Holy Days. This Is Why, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Taking Care With Text: "The Laws" Of The Take Care Clause Do Not Include The Constitution, And There Is No Autonomous Presidential Power Of Constitutional Interpretation, George Mader
Faculty Scholarship
“Departmentalism” posits that each branch of the federal government has an independent power of constitutional interpretation—all branches share the power and need not defer to one another in the exercise of their interpretive powers. As regards the Executive Branch, the textual basis for this interpretive autonomy is that the Take Care Clause requires the President to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” and the Supremacy Clause includes the Constitution in “the supreme Law of the Land.” Therefore, the President is to execute the Constitution as a law. Or so the common argument goes. The presidential oath to “execute …
Cle Working Paper No. 3/2022--What Is The Test For Interlocutory Injunctions Affecting Homeless Encampments? A Critique Of Vancouver Fraser Port Authority V Brett And Associated Case Law, Stepan Wood
Centre for Law and the Environment
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority v Brett (VFPA v Brett), decided in 2020, marked a new low in judicial responses to the intersecting crises of housing, homelessness, poverty, toxic drugs, mental health, racism and colonialism. By dropping to the ground the already low bar for granting interlocutory injunctions to evict homeless encampments from publicly owned land i n BC, this decision invites a critical assessment of BC courts’ approach to homeless encampment injunctions. In this paper I present the first comprehensive survey of 21st century BC homeless encampment interlocutory injunction applications, which shows that they have an extremely high …
Law Library Blog (October 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (October 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
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Don't Say Gay: The Government's Silence And The Equal Protection Clause, Clifford Rosky
Don't Say Gay: The Government's Silence And The Equal Protection Clause, Clifford Rosky
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This paper will argue that the LGBT movement has played, and will continue to play, a significant role in developing doctrines that subject government speech to the requirements of the Equal Protection Clause. In particular, the paper will examine how this doctrine is being developed in litigation around anti-LGBT curriculum laws—statutes that prohibit or restrict the discussion of LGBT people and topics in public schools. It argues that this litigation demonstrates how the Equal Protection Clause can be violated by the government’s silence, as well as the government’s speech. In addition, it explains why the Don’t Say Gay Laws recently …
A Second Look For Children Sentenced To Die In Prison, Kathryn E. Miller
A Second Look For Children Sentenced To Die In Prison, Kathryn E. Miller
Articles
Scholars have championed “second look” statutes as a decarceral tool. Second look statutes allow certain incarcerated people to seek resentencing after having served a portion of their sentences. This Essay weighs the advantages and disadvantages of these statutes as applied to children sentenced to die in prison and argues that focusing on this small, discrete group may be a digestible entry point for more conservative states who fear widespread resentencing. Moreover, because early data indicates that children convicted of homicide and released as adults have very low recidivism rates, second look beneficiaries are likely to pose little threat to public …
Promoting Constitutional Literacy: What Role For Courts?, De Maartje Visser
Promoting Constitutional Literacy: What Role For Courts?, De Maartje Visser
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
This article explores the role of constitutional judges in advancing constitutional literacy, understood as knowledge relating to the functioning of the constitutional order. Part of the inquiry is descriptive and geared towards identifying the modalities that courts today use to cultivate such literacy among the public, or segments thereof. The article also poses normative questions about literacy-boosting efforts. How do these relate to typical judicial functions? Are courts well-placed and equipped to disseminate constitutional knowledge? Based on an analysis of judicial practices, it is suggested that lay individuals are increasingly treated as a key constituency by courts, warranting the development …