Judicial Recusal and the Court
Later this month, all nine justices will be hearing oral argument on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable… Continue reading →
Later this month, all nine justices will be hearing oral argument on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable… Continue reading →
In September 2011, President Obama signed the most significant patent law overhaul in decades, the America Invents Act. The central… Continue reading →
In Climate Change and the Courts, Professors Jason S. Johnston and Heidi M. Hurd debate whether there should be a… Continue reading →
Is empathy an important trait for a judge? Is there a role for empathy in the law? What about the… Continue reading →
The dominant form of legal discourse in contemporary America is welfarist. Though there are important alternatives, welfarism also largely prevails… Continue reading →
I asked Justice Aharon Barak, then president of the Israeli Supreme Court, why he considered himself competent to decide where… Continue reading →
In 1959, Ronald Coase published his landmark paper on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would forever change the study… Continue reading →
When Minnesota created the first sentencing commission in 1978 and the first sentencing guidelines in 1980, it was hard to… Continue reading →
In United States v. Booker, the Supreme Court excised two provisions of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) that… Continue reading →
Commentators analyzing the Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Graham v. Florida, which prohibited sentences of life without parole for juveniles… Continue reading →