Passive-Aggressive Executive Power,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Passive-Aggressive Executive Power, Corinna Barrett Lain
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Court’S Decisive Hand Shapes The Executive’S Foreign Affairs Policymaking Power,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
The Court’S Decisive Hand Shapes The Executive’S Foreign Affairs Policymaking Power, Kimberley L. Fletcher
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Obama Administration’S Non-Defense Of Doma And Executive Duty To Represent,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Obama Administration’S Non-Defense Of Doma And Executive Duty To Represent, Kathleen Tipler
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Chief Justices And Chief Executives: Some Thoughts On Jim Simon’S Books,
2013
Yale University
Chief Justices And Chief Executives: Some Thoughts On Jim Simon’S Books, Akhil Reed Amar
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Toward Genuine Tribal Consultation In The 21st Century,
2013
William Mitchell College of Law
Toward Genuine Tribal Consultation In The 21st Century, Colette Routel, Jeffrey Holth
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The federal government's duty to consult with Indian tribes has been the subject of numerous executive orders and directives from past and current U.S. Presidents, which have, in turn, resulted in the proliferation of agency-specific consultation policies. However, there is still no agreement regarding the fundamental components of the consultation duty. When does the consultation duty arise? And what does it require of the federal government? The answers to these questions lie in the realization that the tribal consultation duty arises from the common law trust responsibility to Indian tribes, which compels the United States to protect tribal sovereignty and …
Toward Comprehensive Reform Of America's Emergency Law Regime,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Toward Comprehensive Reform Of America's Emergency Law Regime, Patrick A. Thronson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Unbenownst to most Americans, the United States is presently under thirty presidentially declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch, including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation's communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel. Declared states of emergency may also activate Presidential Emergency Action Documents and other continuity-of-government procedures, which confer powers on the President-such as the unilateral suspension of habeas corpus-that appear fundamentally opposed to …
The Con Law Professor With Judicial Appointment Power,
2013
University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
The Con Law Professor With Judicial Appointment Power, Theresa M. Beiner
Law Faculty Scholarship
This essay explores whether, how or, perhaps, to what extent President Barack Obama’s time as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago is reflected in his approach to judicial appointments. Three things are striking about President Obama’s initial approach to judicial selection. First, he has appointed the most diverse bench of any President. Second, he has appointed judges rather slowly compared to his predecessors. And, finally, he has appointed a rather politically moderate bench. How might these particular and in some ways surprising aspects of President Obama’s judicial appointments reflect – or not reflect – his time as …
Book Review Of Arnold H. Leibowitz, An Historical-Legal Analysis Of The Impeachments Of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, And William Clinton: Why The Process Went Wrong,
2013
Touro Law Center
Book Review Of Arnold H. Leibowitz, An Historical-Legal Analysis Of The Impeachments Of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, And William Clinton: Why The Process Went Wrong, Jeffrey B. Morris
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Of Civil Wrongs And Rights: Kiyemba V. Obama And The Meaning Of Freedom, Separation Of Powers, And The Rule Of Law Ten Years After 9/11,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Of Civil Wrongs And Rights: Kiyemba V. Obama And The Meaning Of Freedom, Separation Of Powers, And The Rule Of Law Ten Years After 9/11, Katherine L. Vaughns, Heather L. Williams
Faculty Scholarship
This article is about the rise and fall of continued adherence to the rule of law, proper application of the separation of powers doctrine, and the meaning of freedom for a group of seventeen Uighurs—a Turkic Muslim ethnic minority whose members reside in the Xinjiang province of China—who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base since 2002. Most scholars regard the trilogy of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Boumediene v. Bush as demonstrating the Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold the rule of law during the war on terror. The recent experience of the Uighurs …
Passive-Aggressive Executive Power,
2013
University of Richmond
Passive-Aggressive Executive Power, Corinna Barrett Lain
Law Faculty Publications
My contribution to the 2013 Constitutional Law Schmooze poses a question about the downside of executive power, at least in the enforcement context. If executive power to enforce the law presupposes the duty to use it, what happens when the executive branch would rather not? Perhaps reframing the question will help. What do the death penalty, driving violations, drugs, deportation, and the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) have in common, besides the letter “d”? The answer is passive-aggressive executive power, and in the brief discussion that follows, I use these five factual contexts to illustrate five variations of what I …
Two Great Leaders,
2013
The University of Texas
Some Guidance About Federal Agencies And Guidance,
2013
University of Washington School of Law
Some Guidance About Federal Agencies And Guidance, Mary Whisner
Librarians' Articles
The federal administrative system is complex and contains ambiguities about what counts as an “agency,” and there is an amorphous border between regulations and guidance. The body of guidance documents (or nonlegislative rules) is growing, both in volume and in importance, and legal researchers should be aware of this important source of authority, as well as its unclear status.
President John Adams And Four Chief Justices: An Essay For James F. Simon,
2013
New York Law School
President John Adams And Four Chief Justices: An Essay For James F. Simon, R.B. Bernstein
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Grand Strategy In U.S. Foreign Policy: The Carter, Bush, And Obama Doctrines,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
Grand Strategy In U.S. Foreign Policy: The Carter, Bush, And Obama Doctrines, Sara M. Birkenthal
CMC Senior Theses
This paper seeks to determine under what conditions a U.S. president can implement a grand strategy given the nature of domestic and international opportunities and constraints. It will examine three comparative case studies: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, with the goal of determining what conditions are necessary at the individual, domestic, and systemic levels of analysis for grand strategy implementation. At the individual level, it will apply operational code analysis, as well as an examination of personal characteristics for each case study. At the domestic level, it will apply a five-prong test for examining factors that are …
Reforming Affirmative Action For The Future: A Constitutional And Consequentialist Approach,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
Reforming Affirmative Action For The Future: A Constitutional And Consequentialist Approach, Quinn Chasan
CMC Senior Theses
In my analysis of affirmative action policy, I began the search without having formed any opinion whatsoever. The topic was interesting to me, and after reading a mass of news editorials and their op-eds, I decided to take up the argument for myself. Other than the fact that I am a student, I have no stake in affirmative action policy. This paper relies primarily on the foremost half-dozen or so notable mismatch theory scholars, a close reading of an innumerable number of Supreme Court opinions, affirmative action related studies from higher education academics and policy institutes, and how historical executive …
The President's Enforcement Power,
2013
Columbia Law School
The President's Enforcement Power, Kate Andrias
Faculty Scholarship
Enforcement of law is at the core of the President’s constitutional duty to “take Care” that the laws are faithfully executed, and it is a primary mechanism for effecting national regulatory policy. Yet questions about how presidents oversee agency enforcement activity have received surprisingly little scholarly attention. This Article provides a positive account of the President’s role in administrative enforcement, explores why presidential enforcement has taken the shape it has, and examines the bounds of the President’s enforcement power. It demonstrates that presidential involvement in agency enforcement, though extensive, has been ad hoc, crisis-driven, and frequently opaque. The Article thus …
Congress Underestimated: The Case Of The World Bank,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Congress Underestimated: The Case Of The World Bank, Kristina Daugirdas
Articles
This article challenges the oft-repeated claim that international organizations undermine democracy by marginalizing national legislatures. Over the past forty years, Congress has established itself as a key player in setting U.S. policy toward the World Bank. Congress has done far more than restrain executive branch action with which it disagrees; it has affirmatively shaped the United States’ day-to-day participation in this key international organization and successfully defended its constitutional authority to do so.
Syria, Threats Of Force, And Constitutional War Powers,
2013
Columbia Law School
Syria, Threats Of Force, And Constitutional War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
Faculty Scholarship
In this Essay, Professor Matthew Waxman argues that debates about constitutional war powers neglect the critical role of threats of war or force in American foreign policy. The recent Syria case highlights the President’s vast legal power to threaten military force as well as the political constraints imposed by Congress on such threats. Incorporating threats into an understanding of constitutional powers over war and peace upends traditional arguments about presidential flexibility and congressional checks – arguments that have failed to keep pace with changes in American grand strategy.
Bond V. United States: Can The President Increase Congress's Legislative Power By Entering Into A Treaty?,
2013
Georgetown University Law Center
Bond V. United States: Can The President Increase Congress's Legislative Power By Entering Into A Treaty?, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The proposition that treaties can increase the power of Congress is inconsistent with the text of the Treaty Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the Tenth Amendment. It is inconsistent with the fundamental structural principle that "[t]he powers of the legislature are defined, and limited."S It implies, insidiously, that that the President and the Senate can increase their own power by treaty. And it implies, bizarrely, that the President alone--or a foreign government alone--can decrease Congress's power and render federal statutes unconstitutional. Finally, it creates a doubly perverse incentive: an incentive to enter into foreign entanglements simply to increase …
Toward A Sustainable Future: An Environmental Agenda For The Second Term Of The Obama Administration,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Toward A Sustainable Future: An Environmental Agenda For The Second Term Of The Obama Administration, David M. Uhlmann
Other Publications
Much was at stake in the Presidential election of 2012, which was marked by heated debate over the trajectory of the economy, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, and the fat of the President's health care plan. The candidates disagreed about nearly every issue from foreign policy and the war on terror to a woman's right to choose and same-sex marriage. Lost amid the din and never mentioned in the Presidential debates or most of the campaign speeches was another divisive topic: how our environmental laws and policies should address global climate change and chart a sustainable future for …
