Democracy - Harvard Law Review

Of Systems Thinking and Straw Men

Response to Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Vol. 136 No. 6 April 2023 Introduction In Content Moderation as Systems Thinking, Professor Evelyn Douek, as the title suggests, endorses an approach to the people, rules, and processes governing...

Kate Klonick

State and Local Government Law Recent Election

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin Recalled

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin Recalled.

April 2023

Constitutional Interpretation Recent Book

Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, The Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

By Brad Snyder. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company. 2022. Pp. 979. $45.00.

Vol. 136 No. 4 February 2023

Democracy Recent Case

Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

Wisconsin Supreme Court Adopts New Election Maps that Change Existing Districts Least, Regardless of Partisan Bias.

Vol. 136 No. 3 January 2023

Race and the Law Essay

Parchment Rights

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...

Franita Tolson

Constitutional Law Book Review

Puzzles of Progressive Constitutionalism

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Against Constitutionalism. By Martin Loughlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2022. Pp. xi, 250. $39.95. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American...

Jonathan S. Gould

Democracy Essay

Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States

April 2022 Introduction The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly and...

Richard L. Hasen

Constitutional Law Note

Price and Sovereignty

Vol. 135 No. 2 December 2021 [W]e must not overlook the actual fact that dominion over things is also imperium over our fellow human beings. — Professor Morris R. Cohen,...

Administrative Law Response

Presidential Primacy Amidst Democratic Decline

Response to Regime Change

Vol. 135 No. 1 November 2021 Especially I want to show that it could be different, that it was different, and that there are alternatives. — Natalie Zemon Davis Fifty...

Election Law Leading Case

Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

Vol. 135 No. 1 November 2021 On January 6, 2021, American democracy was under threat. Hundreds of supporters of former President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to...