The Oath of Office: A Pillar of the Rule of Law
Keynote Speech Thank you for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s Annual… Continue reading →
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Common-Law Limits on Firearms Purchases by Minors: The Original Understanding
Prohibitions on the purchase and use of firearms by individuals between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one have emerged as… Continue reading →
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Clarifying the “Clear Meaning” of Separability
Speaking of the Copyright Act of 1909, noted copyright scholar Benjamin Kaplan had this to say about the role of… Continue reading →
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Policing as General Warrants
The drafters of the Bill of Rights and its proponents envisioned a document constitutionalizing protections against some of the worst… Continue reading →
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“Mistakes” In War
In 2015, the United States military struck a hospital in Afghanistan run by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing forty-two staff and… Continue reading →
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The Law of Geographic Labor Market Inequality
How the law contributes to economic inequality is the subject of renewed attention, but the legal dimensions of geographic inequality… Continue reading →
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Prosecuting Families
Hundreds of thousands of parents are prosecuted in the family regulation system each year. Their cases are investigated by family… Continue reading →
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Systemic Failure to Appear in Court
This Article aims to reorient the conversation around “failure-to-appear” (FTA) in criminal court. Recent policy and scholarship have addressed FTA… Continue reading →
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Lessons in Climate Derisking: The United States’ Failed Nuclear Renaissance
Ameliorating climate change depends centrally upon transforming the energy system to run on clean energy. In turn, this transformation requires… Continue reading →
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The Original Meaning of Treaties
For nearly two centuries, all three branches of the federal government have thought that the original meaning of the Constitution’s… Continue reading →