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2024 Civil Justice Update
This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2024. Part I discusses legal reform...
Are the Credibility Findings of National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judges Credible?
The Administrative Procedure Act directs federal courts to review and to set aside final agency...
The Widening Effect of Students for Fair Admissions
Sitting at the top of the judicial pyramid, the Supreme Court makes only a few...
Applying the Founders' Originalism
The 1787 Federal Convention drafted, and the ratifiers approved, the United States Constitution under the...
The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: How a Historical Critique of Originalism Misses That the Past Is Prologue
A review of Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (2024) This review is...
The Corruption of Law Schools and the Health of Our Democracy
A review of Ilya Shapiro, Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites (2025) The legal scholar...
The Supreme Court's 2023 Term: Return to Original Meaning or a Dangerous "Paradigm Shift"?
Each Supreme Court term over the past several years seems to produce more momentous decisions...
Disparate-Impact Liability: Unfounded, Unconstitutional, & Not Long For This World
For more than fifty years—ever since the Supreme Court decided Griggs v. Duke Power Co.[1]—almost...
From Ratio to Auctoritas: The Decline of Reason and the Rise of Authority in American and Roman Law
Are we Rome? In the United States, the question is usually directed at our politics...
Transporting Abortifacients Across State Lines: Prospects for Indictment and Extradition
On January 31, 2025, a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York physician—Dr. Margaret Carpenter—for...
Non Potest Delegari: How the Common-Law Principle of Agency Recasts the Nondelegation Doctrine
The nondelegation doctrine forbids Congress from delegating lawmaking authority to other government institutions. The Supreme...
Structure Over Spectacle: The Supreme Court's 2024 Term
After several years of headline-grabbing decisions that reshaped national political debate—from abortion and affirmative action...