Equal Citizens of Equal and Territorial States: The Constitutional Foundations of Choice of Law

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

For the over half-million people currently homeless in the United States, the U.S. Constitution has historically provided little help: it is strongly...

This essay considers the future of public-private collaboration in the wake of the Murthy v. Missouri litigation, which cast doubt on the...

This Article develops a new way of understanding the law in order to address contemporary debates about judicial practice and reform. The...

A large segment of the political left identifies as “progressive,” but what does a belief in progress entail? This short essay, written for a...

It has been a big moment for court reform. President Biden has proposed a slate of important if vaguely defined reforms, including a new ethics regime...

For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel, The Collective-Action Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Neil Siegel has written a grand...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the Supreme Court acknowledged the difficulties in applying its constitutional originalism to the...

In an earlier article titled The Executive Power of Removal, we contended that Article II gives the President a constitutional power to remove...

Assessing the legitimacy of any legal system is hard, but especially if the system in question is the volatile and contested field of international...

The Supreme Court has overruled Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, finally interring a doctrine of statutory interpretation that it had...

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

Celebrating Charles Ogletree, Jr. comes naturally to so many people because he served not only as a tireless champion of equality and justice, but...

The use of autonomy to initiate force, which states may begin to view as necessary to protect against hypersonic attacks and other forms of ‘hyperwar...

After two years of debate in Congress and the broader world over forfeiting the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank for the benefit of Ukraine...

In recent years, several popularly elected leaders have moved to consolidate their power by eroding checks and balances. Courts are commonly the...

Does the U.S. Constitution protect the affirmative right to vote? Those focusing on the Constitution’s text say no. Yet, the Supreme Court has treated...

There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...