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The Locus of the Law: Loper-Bright and Qualified Immunity

Principled Resignation: The Lawyers’ Dilemma

A Greenland Round Robin

Balkinization Symposium on Maxwell Stearns, Parliamentary America-- Collected Posts

Balkinization Symposium on Ruti Teitel, Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice-- Collected Posts

A Faint-Hearted Parliamentarian’s Response to Commenters

Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown

Wrapping Up Loose Ends After The Trump v. Slaughter Oral Argument That Left The Conservative Justices Tangled In Knots

Self-Foot Shooting Is Not a Crime, but . . .

Evaluating Stearns' "Parliamentary America"

Rewiring Our Civics Brain

Audacity Within Limits: On Maxwell Stearns’ Parliamentary America

Changing the Rules of the Game Requires Defending Government By, For, and Of the People

Reponse to the Balkinization Symposium on Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice

An Admiring, But Skeptical Response to Professor Stearns

Greenland is the new Santa Domingo

How the US Digs Out of Constitutional Failure

Balkinization Symposium on Maxwell Stearns, Parliamentary America

The Constitution Against the People: Rethinking Law, Markets, and Democracy

The Supreme Court’s Gay Rights-Religious Liberty Contortions

Presidential Visions of Transitional Injustice

A Tradition Interrupted? Transitional Justice and the Presidency in Contemporary Politics

Exceptional Apologies

Balkinization Symposium on Ruti Teitel, Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice

Balkinization Symposium on David Sloss, People v. The Court-- Collected Posts

Judicial Review and Democratic Renewal

Implied Rights of Action and the Broader Problem of Methodoloigcal Change

The Judicial Restoration(?) of Democracy

Is the Supreme Court Legitimate?

The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought

The Roberts Court’s Unprecedented Abuse of Precedent

Critics of liberalism in Budapest

Is the Constitutional Revolution Yearned For Within Reach?

Another Take on Indiana's Proposed Redistricting

Democracy and the Strong Judicial Review Catch-22

Balkinization Symposium on Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments-- Collected Posts

Tariff Twilight

The Structure of Constitutional Revolutions

The Structure of Constitutional Revolutions

The Problems Punishment Produces

Sloss V. The System

Sloss v. The System

Balkinization Symposium on David Sloss, People v. The Court

Balkinization Symposium on John Witt, The Radical Fund -- Collected Posts

Ten Arguments in The Radical Fund (Part 2)

Ten Arguments in The Radical Fund (Part I)

Is Liberalism a Threat to Religious Liberty? A debate in Budapest

The Court's Blush: Undoing Plenary Power Over Tribes

The Reformist Trap: Why Anti-Ruination Cannot Transform the Carceral State

The Perils of Superficial Political Analysis

Are Doughnut Holes a Bug or a Feature?

What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us

Is Punishment Permissible?

The Struggle to Institutionalise Impermissibility

Available Upon Request

Moot is Moot: An Open Letter to the Supreme Court Urging Adherence to Settled Mootness Principles in Little v. Hecox

Prison and Death

Tariffs, Textualism, and a Easier Way Out

Ruination, Democracy and the Participant Attitude

The Public & The Prison

Northwestern’s missed opportunity to fight antisemitism

An Enduring Problem: How to Prevent the Abuse of Prisoners

"Regular Forces:" A Lesson in the Obvious

Couple of Observations About Today's Tariff Argument

The Corporality of Incarceration

Balkinization Symposium on Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments

Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop

Upcoming Robert Jackson Event

Congratulations to Marty Lederman

The Administration’s Shutdown of SNAP is Obviously Illegal

An Elegy for the Actual Founding Generation

The Power to Decide

Wherefore Art Thou Philanthropy

Altman on Discrimination and Noncomplicity

Emergency Powers and the Youngstown Concurrence

What Money Can Do: John Witt’s The Radical Fund

Could the Garland Fund Upend America Today?

Rejecting the Compact is a Fiduciary Responsibility—and an Opportunity

Law, Organizing (and Philanthropy) in the Radical Fund

Lessons for Nonprofits in The Radical Fund: The Perils of Self Dealing and the Promise of Incubating Novel Ideas

Warlord for a Day

The Garland Fund and the Perils of Extremist Illiberalism

The Radical Fund – An Historian’s Brief For Social Democracy

New Draft Essay on Birthright Citizenship

Putting labor, civil rights, and civil liberties at the center of the American story

Three Views of the Carnival

The Radical Fund Behind Brown

Balkinization Symposium on John Witt, The Radical Fund

What’s Louisiana v. Callais About? Not Louisiana.

Why a President Might Decline to Appeal

The Legality of the Friday Night Massacre

Reverse Marbury

The Roberts Court’s Unprecedented Abuse of Precedent – And How It Is Destroying the Judiciary’s Role in the System of Checks-and-Balances

No Appeal, No Compliance, No Remedy

E-Book of "The Actual Art Of Governing" Available for Pre-Order

AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

Gaming Out the Appellate Void

The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

The Government Shutdown and the Filibuster

Balkinization Symposium on Dylan C. Penningroth, Before the Movement-- Collected Posts

Shutdown, You’d Better Take Care

Virginia Is For Vengeance

Symposium Response Part 2: Centering and de-centering race

Symposium Response Part 1: The strange career of civil rights

Balkinization Symposium on Serena Mayeri, Marital Privilege-- Collected Posts

Oral Argument as Eulogy

Response to Commentators

Jawboning Late Night: A Lesson in How Corporate Consolidation Creates Free Speech Problems

Marital Privilege and Immigration Law

The Problem of "Popular" "Sovereignty"

From Status to Function

Marital Supremacy, Liberalization & Privilege

The Administration’s Self-Created Inability to Make a Deal

Understanding the Roots of Today’s Marital Inequality

Promoting Equality and Marriage

Selective Service and Illegal Aliens

The State of Impoundment Litigation Now

The Staying Power of Marriage Inequality

Balkinization Symposium on Serena Mayeri, Marital Privilege

National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars -- Call for Papers

Making Policy Based on Falsehoods: The Federal Government vs UCLA

No Ordinary Opinion Announcement

A Grand Jury Will Not Indict a Thrown Ham Sandwich