Religious Liberty at the Founding

Over two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection...

Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar...

Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...

Curtis Bradley’s new book on Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs is the definitive account of a mode of constitutional interpretation that has proven...

In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected...

Today, intimate privacy—which seeks to protect access to and information about our body, health, sexuality, gender, intimate thoughts, desires...

Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction...

It is hard to imagine an area of constitutional law that has changed more in Judge Wilkinson's time on the bench than the First Amendment. When Judge...

Before he became editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and before he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and before he...

Content moderation is typically viewed as an affront to free expression. When companies remove online abuse, they face accusations of censorship. Lost...

Fifty years ago, federal and state lawmakers called for the regulation of a criminal justice “databank” connecting federal, state, and local agencies...

The recent mass arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have left many asking how such suppression can be justified in a free society. Yet—despite...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

On Thursday afternoon, in an important lawsuit seeking to clarify which religious objectors will be taken seriously when they seek legal exemptions, a...

St. George Tucker is commonly regarded as the most important commentator on American law in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the first...

Liberalism is back on its heels, pushed there by political movements in the United States and Europe and by the critiques of legal scholars and...

In Matter of Giuliani, the New York Appellate Division held that Rudy Giuliani’s knowingly false statements of fact during the period after the 2020...

This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...