U.S. Territories - Harvard Law Review

Antitrust Recent Case

Cangrejeros de Santurce Baseball Club, LLC v. Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico, Inc.

Vol. 139 No. 3 January 2026 Baseball isn’t unique only for being “America’s pastime.” It is also unique because activities involving the “business . . . of base[ball]” are exempt from federal antitrust laws...

Race and Law Response

The Constitution of Difference

Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 3 January 2024 The result of what has been said is that whilst in an international sense Porto Rico was not a foreign country, since it was...

Constitutional Interpretation Leading Case

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 Puerto Rico is in a state of crisis. The island bears a debt burden of more than seventy-two billion dollars, retains lasting damage from...

Constitutional Law Foreword

The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 For my part I am not prepared for citizenship in the United States. I do not want it. . . . It takes greed of gain...

U.S. Territories Leading Case

United States v. Vaello Madero

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 Equal protection under the Fifth Amendment guarantees that the federal government will not discriminate against individuals without a rational basis. Not in Puerto Rico....

Civil Rights Recent Case

United States v. Vaello-Madero

First Circuit Affirms that Unequal Federal Benefits Program in Puerto Rico Violates Fifth Amendment.

Vol. 134 No. 3 January 2021

Federal Courts Articles

Adjudication Outside Article III

Vol. 133 No. 5 March 2020 Article III requires federal judges who exercise federal jurisdiction to be given life tenure and undiminished compensation, limiting Congress’s ability to influence the judiciary....

William Baude

Election Law Notes

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation

Vol. 133 No. 3 January 2020 For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

U.S. Territories Recent Case

Davis v. Guam

Ninth Circuit Holds That Guam's Plebiscite Law Violates Fifteenth Amendment.

Vol. 133 No. 2 December 2019

U.S. Territories Commentary

Problematizing the Protection of Culture and the Insular Cases

U.S. Territories Commentary Series

Response to American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism

Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018

Rose Cuison Villazor