The Statistics
Vol. 135 No. 1
Each year, the Harvard Law Review publishes a series of tables summarizing numerical trends from the Court’s most recent Term. The full text of...
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The Future of Supreme Court Reform
Vol. 134 No. 7
For a brief moment in the fall of 2020, structural reform of the Supreme Court seemed like a tangible possibility. After the death of...
In the Shadows: McCoy v. Alamu
Editor's Note: This piece is the first in our new series covering the Supreme Court's "shadow docket" — emergency orders and summary decisions outside the...
Harvard Law Review Pieces Cited in October Term 2019
Last Term, sixteen Supreme Court cases cited pieces published in the Harvard Law Review. The works cited were published over the course of the...
The Statistics
Vol. 134 No. 1
Each year, the Harvard Law Review publishes a series of tables summarizing numerical trends from the Court’s most recent Term. The full text of...
The Degradation of American Democracy — And the Court
Vol. 134 No. 1
Introduction On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court invalidated the geographic coverage formula of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, effectively abrogating the preclearance requirement...
Implicit Bias in the Age of Trump
Vol. 133 No. 7
Introduction I am watching a video of Donald Trump, the forty-fifth President of the United States. He stands before a sea of white people,...
Recent Statement: Chief Justice Roberts on Senate Minority Leader Schumer
On March 4, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, one of the most contentious cases on...
What’s Really at Stake in the Supreme Court’s Religious School Vouchers Case?
The Supreme Court has just heard oral argument in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a high-profile case involving a Montana private school voucher program that a...
Congressional Intent and the Shadow Docket
Professor Stephen I. Vladeck’s recent essay in the Harvard Law Review entitled “The Solicitor General and the Shadow Docket” critiques the Solicitor General’s “unprecedented...