Menu
Constitutional Law Twitter
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW REPORTER RSS FEED
- Andrew Hamm
The Supreme Court is between sittings. The justices will meet next for their January 4 conference; J [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Introduction Many law students learn about "narrative" at some point in law school. Of cou [...]
- NCC Staff
On December 16, 1773, a group of Colonists destroyed a large British tea shipment in Boston harbor. [...]
- Lawrence Solum
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Legal Validity and Soft Law, edited by Pauline Westerman, Jaap [...]
- Lawrence Solum
The Download of the Week is Fuller and the Folk: The Inner Morality of Law Revisited by Raff Donelso [...]
- NCC Staff
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights (ratified [...]
- NCC Staff
When James Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed nearly 20 amendments as a Bill of Rights, [...]
- NCC Staff
Here are eight key facts about this enduring testament to liberty and freedom! [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
Judge Reed O'Connor (N.D. Tex.) today issued a sweeping and breathtaking ruling striking the en [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Joel K. Goldstein (Saint Louis University - School of Law) has posted The Bipartisan Bayh Amendment: [...]
- Lyle Denniston
Eight years after Congress wrote a massive overhaul of the nation’s health care industry, a federal [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Sabine Gless (University of Basel) has posted Predictive Policing – In Defense of ‘True Positives’ ( [...]
- Andrew Hamm
A week ago we posted a survey soliciting reader feedback (which can be found here). We received many [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction barring the government from enf [...]
- Lawrence Solum
John Witte (Emory University School of Law) has posted Faith in Law: The Legal and Political Legacy [...]
- Amy Howe
Last month the Supreme Court announced that it would, for the second time, review a case from Virgin [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted [...]
- Aurora Barnes
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, [...]
- Lyle Denniston
Federal government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to get permission to enforce a new transgend [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Jennifer Mnookin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted The Uncer [...]
- Edith Roberts
Amy Howe reports for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court, that the federal [...]
- NCC Staff
On December 14, 1799, George Washington died at his home after a brief illness and after losing abou [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Siegfried Wiessner (St. Thomas University School of Law) has posted The Rule of Law: Prolegomena (Ze [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Sean M. O'Connor (University of Washington - School of Law) has posted The Means of Innovation, [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Kathleen Claussen and David Singh Grewal (University of Miami School of Law and Yale University - La [...]
- Amy Howe
Last month the Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to bypass the courts of appeals a [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
The Fifth Circuit dismissed Texas's case seeking a declaration that its anti-sanctuary-city bil [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Jennifer Wriggins (University of Maine - School of Law) has posted Domestic Violence and Gender Equa [...]
- Adam Feldman
This term, the Supreme Court will hear argument in its 100th case decided below by the U.S. Court of [...]
- Lindsay See
Lindsay See is the solicitor general of West Virginia, which led a group of 27 other states and the [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Lawrence B. Solum (Georgetown University Law Center) & Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Har [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
The Second Circuit ruled that a case challenging New York officials' eviction-settlement practi [...]
- Richard B. Katskee
Richard B. Katskee is Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Symbols [...]
- Edith Roberts
Briefly: At CNBC, Tucker Higgins reports that “Justice Brett Kavanaugh has only been on the bench fo [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Yvonne Tew (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Stealth Theocracy (Virginia Journal of Inte [...]
- Scott Bomboy
It is the season for controversy about public holiday displays, and this year’s stories include a fi [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Emma Nyhan (University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School) has posted Translocal Ideas of Indigenei [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Paolo Sandro (University of Salford - Salford Business School) has posted Unlocking Legal Validity: [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Luke William Hunt (Radford University) has posted Informants, Police, and Unconscionability (Institu [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Kai Möller (London School of Economics - Law Department) has posted Justifying the Culture of Justif [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Samuel Issacharoff (New York University School of Law) has posted Judicial Review in Troubled Times: [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
Judge Jon S. Tigar (N.D. Cal.) ruled that San Francisco lacked standing to challenge the Trump Admin [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Michael S. Pardo (University of Alabama School of Law) has posted The Paradoxes of Legal Proof: A Cr [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
In the wake of the government's release of sentencing memos for Michael Cohen--and their finger [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Robert C. Hockett (Cornell University - Law School) has posted Ten Years On: What Have We Learned? W [...]
- NCC Staff
On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ended a Florida vote recount in the presidential election co [...]
- Lyle Denniston
The Trump Administration rushed to the Supreme Court Tuesday, asking permission to put back into pla [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Patricia A. McCoy (Boston College Law School) has posted Inside Job: The Assault on the Structure of [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Tom C. W. Lin (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law) has posted Incorporating Social A [...]
- Lawrence Solum
John Linarelli (Durham University) has posted Global Legal Pluralism and Commercial Law (Paul Schiff [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
Michigan Law posted this announcement and call for papers for its Fifth Annual Junior Scholars Confe [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle (D.D.C.) dismissed a suit challenging President Trump's Infrastructur [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Allan Erbsen (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law) has posted Wayfair Undermines N [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
Judge Trevor N. McFadden (D.D.C.) ruled in American Anti-Vivisection Society v. USDA that plaintiff [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Bertrall L. Ross (University of California, Berkeley School of Law; University of California, Berkel [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted After All These Years, Lochner Was No [...]
- Lawrence Solum
John Witte (Emory University School of Law) has posted The Marital Covenant in John Calvin’s Geneva [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Zachary Price (University of California Hastings College of the Law) has posted Precedent in a Polar [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Paul Litton (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted Traumatic Brain Injury and a Divergenc [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Raff Donelson (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge) & Ivar Hannikainen (University of Sheffi [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Title: Call for Papers - Autonomy in Private Law: Past, Present, Future Organization: The Private La [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Alex Stein (Israel Supreme Court) has posted Evidence Law—What For? (Preface, in Foundations of Evid [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Jonathan Crowe (Bond University - School of Law), Rachael Field (Bond University - School of Law), L [...]
- Lawrence Solum
Introduction One of the most basic ideas in legal theory is the distinction between "communicat [...]
- Lawrence Solum
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code by Primavera De Filipp [...]
- Steven D. Schwinn
If you want to know what William P. Barr, President Trump's nominee for Attorney General, think [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Is there a constitutional right to follow President Donald Trump on Twitter? It’s a question that no [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Addressing future Catholic priests, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday talked about his faith and war [...]
- Jacob Gershman
An organization of restaurant workers and a hotel booking agent in Washington, D.C. have joined a fe [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill that would require vehicle registration plates to bear th [...]
- Jacob Gershman
A look back at Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's time as a conservative college journalist a [...]
- Joe Palazzolo
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, a 90-lawyer plaintiffs' firm known for suing big compan [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Before becoming a federal judge, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch wrote prolifically about as [...]
- Sara Randazzo
Legal experts offer opinions on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Highlights from a few of Judge Neil Gorsuch's opinions and dissents. [...]
- Jacob Gershman
President Donald Trump has said Supreme Court vacancy should be filled by someone “in the mold” of t [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Environmentalism doesn’t constitute a religion, a federal judge ruled. The relationship between gree [...]
- Joe Palazzolo
President , newly sworn in, says he plans to name his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court within two [...]
- Jacob Gershman
It’s been called the Tea Party’s favorite part of the Constitution. But it’s not just conservatives [...]
- Jess Bravin
The state of Colorado has a unique way of refunding the fines, fees and other costs it imposes on de [...]
- Jacob Gershman
IMDb.com is stepping up its First Amendment fight with the state of California, refusing to comply w [...]
- Jacob Gershman
It’s rare for a court to prohibit a newspaper from writing about something — even when it implicates [...]
- Jacob Gershman
President-elect is weeks away from taking the oath of office, but for two Colorado presidential elec [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Second Amendment advocates are challenging New York’s ban on stun guns in a lawsuit asserting a cons [...]
- Jacob Gershman
A white, male lawyer from Texas is suing the state bar for requiring that at least four members of i [...]
- Jacob Gershman
What does former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s triumph at the Supreme Court mean for the federal cor [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people, Dispenser of India’s destiny. Thy name rouses the hea [...]
- Jacob Gershman
The president-elect made clear Tuesday his view that the freedom of speech shouldn't encompass [...]
- Jacob Gershman
The president-elect made clear Tuesday his view that the freedom of speech shouldn't encompass [...]
- Jacob Gershman
North Carolina lawmakers can declare the winner of a contested election under the state's elect [...]
- Jess Bravin
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday urged Americans who share her views not to “despair” at the elect [...]
- Jess Bravin
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once dismissed Donald Trump as a “faker” who didn’t deserve the presiden [...]
- Jacob Gershman
President-elect Donald Trump as a candidate vowed to "open up" the nation's libel law [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Popular movie and TV database IMDb.com is claiming that a new California law steps on the First Amen [...]
- Michelle Hackman
On Tuesday night, a months-long presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump finall [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Another federal court has punched a hole in the effort to legalize ballot selfies. A U.S. district j [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Can presidents pardon themselves? Few times in American history has the question commanded serious a [...]
- Jacob Gershman
In this extraordinary election season, law professors and constitutional scholars are venturing into [...]
- Jacob Gershman
What is a cheerleader uniform? It may sound like a simple question. But in a case before the Supreme [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Some conservatives, considering the likely prospect of a Clinton presidency, say they wouldn't [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Some are questioning Justice Clarence Thomas's absence from the new Smithsonian's National [...]
- Jess Bravin
Edwin Meese III and Robert Morgenthau, two law-enforcement legends from different political camps, h [...]
- Jacob Gershman
Can you get into legal trouble for possessing the hacked Clinton campaign emails published by Wikile [...]
- Jess Bravin
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Friday for criticizing professional football pl [...]
- Jacob Gershman
With the help of a star litigator, Gov. Chris Christie has taken the state's high-stakes fight [...]
Awards
