Harvard Law Review

The Executive Power of Removal

Abstract Whether the Constitution grants the President a removal power is a longstanding, far-reaching, and hotly contested question. Based on new materials from the Founding and early practice, we defend the Madisonian view that the “executive…

Stare Decisis Article

Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs

Abstract Our system of stare decisis enables and encourages people to rely on judicial decisions to form expectations about their legal rights and duties into the future, and to structure their lives and mentalities based on…

Nina Varsava

Domestic Terrorism Note

Responding to Domestic Terrorism: A Crisis of Legitimacy

On January 6, 2021, thousands of rioters breached the U.S. Capitol. With the express purpose of preventing the lawful Electoral College vote count, they broke through barriers, windows, and law enforcement lines, threatening violence against various…

LGBTQ Rights Note

Romer Has It

A quick scan of LGBTQ-rights victories from the last two decades paints an indisputable picture of progress, a triumphant string of Supreme Court decisions that neatly illustrates the maxim that “the arc of the moral universe…

Due Process Note

Dialectal Due Process

The principle of the arbitrariness of the sign is not doubted by anyone, but it is often easier to discover a truth than to assign it its rightful place. This principle dominates all of linguistics — its consequences…

Standing Recent Case

Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc.

Seventh Circuit Holds that “Psychological States” Caused by Debt Collection Letters Are Not Concrete Injuries.

Administrative Procedure Act Recent Case

In re Section 301 Cases

Court of International Trade Holds that the APA’s Foreign Affairs Exemption Does Not Extend to Tariffs Imposed Under Section 301 of the Trade Act.

State Constitutional Law Recent Case

State v. Beaver

West Virginia Supreme Court Deems Education Savings Accounts Constitutional.

Standing Recent Case

Clemens v. ExecuPharm Inc.

Third Circuit Holds that Data Breach Creates Imminent Injury in Heightening the Risk of Identity Theft or Fraud.

Federal Indian Law Recent Case

Silva v. Farrish

Second Circuit Confirms Exception to Sovereign Immunity for Tribal Claims Relating to Land and Fishing Rights.

Major Questions Doctrine Recent Case

Georgia v. President of the United States

Eleventh Circuit Applies the Major Questions Doctrine to a Delegation to the President.

Federal Reserve Act Recent Event

Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hike on March 22, 2023.

U.S. Monetary Policy Shows the Major Issues with the Major Questions Doctrine.

State and Local Government Law Recent Legislation

A.B. 1766, 2021-2022 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Cal. 2022) (enacted)

California Makes ID Cards Available to Undocumented Residents.

About the Harvard Law Review

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Legal History Response

Removal Rehashed

Response to The Executive Power of Removal

Stare Decisis Response

Tangibility and Tainted Reliance in Dobbs

Response to Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs

Rachel Bayefsky

Online Speech Response

Of Systems Thinking and Straw Men

Response to Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Kate Klonick

Family Law Response

The Unpragmatic Family Law of Marginalized Families

Response to Pragmatic Family Law

Mariela Olivares

Abortion Law Response

Disobedience, Medicine, and the Rule of Law

Response to Medical Disobedience

Mary Ziegler

Housing Law Essay

Interrogating Dominion: On Political Theology and Summary Process Eviction in Connecticut

James Stevenson Ramsey

Ku Klux Klan Act Essay

The Anti-Klan Act in the Twenty-First Century

William M. Carter Jr.

Blog

Second Amendment Blog Essay

How States Can Limit Gun Violence

May 18, 2023

Scott A. Budow

Presidential Power Blog Essay

A Convict in Chief?

April 18, 2023

Brandon Johnson

Abortion Law Blog Essay

Fifth Amendment Rights as Abortion Rights

April 11, 2023

Madalyn K. Wasilczuk

Religion Blog Essay

Religious Exemptions Are Becoming the Rule

April 6, 2023

Jenny Samuels

Employment Law Blog Essay

What the Child Labor Crackdown is Missing

March 21, 2023

Criminal Law Blog Essay

Reframing the Indigent Defense Crisis

March 18, 2023

John Gross

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Articles

Family Law Article

Essays

LGBT Rights Book Review

“Made to Feel Broken”: Ending Conversion Practices and Saving Transgender Lives

Separation of Powers Essay

Separation of Powers and Thuraissigiam: The Entry Fiction as Judicial Aggrandizement

Brandon Hallett Thomas

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Book Reviews

Constitutional Interpretation Book Review

The “Common-Good” Manifesto

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs

Constitutional Law Book Review

Puzzles of Progressive Constitutionalism

Jonathan S. Gould

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Tributes

Disability Law Tribute

Remembering Judy Heumann

Robyn M. Powell

Disability Law Tribute

Honoring Judy Heumann’s Legacy

Michael Ashley Stein

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