A Four-Decade Perspective on Life Inside the Supreme Court
Vol. 133 No. 3
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. By Joan Biskupic. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books. 2019. Pp. 421. $32.00....
Book Reviews
The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Dilemma
Vol. 132 No. 8
I. Introduction Legitimacy is a complex and puzzling concept. But in legal discourse, we have an intuitive sense that illegitimate means something more than...
Corporate Personhood v. Corporate Statehood
Vol. 132 No. 7
In 2011, at the Iowa State Fair, presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a pitch for why fairgoers should support him in the upcoming caucuses....
Digitizing the Carceral State
Vol. 132 No. 6
Many life-changing interactions between individuals and state agents in the United States today are determined by a computer-generated score. Government agencies at the local,...
Sex and the Schoolhouse
Vol. 132 No. 5
Introduction At a 2015 speech at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh pondered Chief Justice John G. Roberts’s famous statement that...
To End a (Republican) Presidency
Vol. 132 No. 2
I. The Pernicious Problem of Partisanship Alexander Hamilton foresaw it perfectly: impeachments of Presidents are by their nature political proceedings, conducted by political institutions...
Facts, Values, Justification, Democracy
Vol. 131 No. 8
Equality, you might think, is the more or less universally shared value of the modern world, or the West, or anyway these United States....
The Black Police: Policing Our Own
Vol. 131 No. 7
Introduction Since Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014, the problem of police violence against African Americans has been a relatively salient...
Reconstructing the Administrative State in an Era of Economic and Democratic Crisis
Vol. 131 No. 6
Speaking at Yale Law School in 1938, Dean James Landis offered a powerful defense of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and in particular its...
Justice Beyond Dispute
Vol. 131 No. 5
I. Introduction Jiranuch Triratana was watching her brother scroll through his Facebook feed on April 24, 2017, when they came upon a startling live-stream...