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Discretion to Declare: The Notwithstanding Clause and the Democratic Function of the Canadian Courts

March 19, 2026 I. Introduction The Notwithstanding Clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a constitutional innovation (albeit colored by historical statutory analogues) first...

Monica Lange

Statutory Interpretation Blog Essay

An International Duty to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act

March 13, 2026 EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is in peril. On the first day of his second term, President Trump issued an executive order...

Zachary D. Steigerwald Schnall

Regulation Notes

The Import of Zoonotic Diseases

Vol. 138 No. 3 January 2025 Introduction In 2020, “zoonosis” reemerged in mainstream discourse as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the United States had been grappling with phases...

Human Rights Notes

Human Rights Devolution: Integrating International Law into State Abortion Governance

Vol. 137 No. 8 June 2024 Introduction After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, states and cities passed an array of laws, constitutional amendments, and ordinances regulating abortion. Recent scholarship...

International Law Notes

Law Without Violence: Human Rights Adjudication as World Building

Vol. 137 No. 5 March 2024 In Violence and the Word, Professor Robert Cover describes law as “tak[ing] place in a field of pain and death.” International law and human...

Abortion Law Recent Case

PAK v. Attorney General

Vol. 136 No. 2 December 2022 As access to abortion is a rapidly developing question in the United States’s legal landscape, courts across the world are revisiting criminalization and constitutional...

Human Rights Recent Case

Recent Case: K.N. v. the United Kingdom

June 29, 2022 In a “dramatic 11th-hour” move, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted urgent interim measures on June 14 in K.N. v. United Kingdom,...

Second Amendment Essay

Torture in Our Schools?

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every...

Leila Nadya Sadat

Foreign & Comparative Law Book Review

Is a Science of Comparative Constitutionalism Possible?

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Introduction Nearly a generation ago, Justice Scalia and Justice Breyer debated the legitimacy and value of using foreign law to interpret the American Constitution....

Madhav Khosla

International Law Recent Case

Sacchi v. Argentina

Committee on the Rights of the Child Extends Jurisdiction over Transboundary Harms; Enshrines New Test

Vol. 135 No. 7 May 2022