Federalism in the Courts

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

The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law filed this amicus brief on behalf of San Bernardino...

Who has the legal right to challenge decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration? And should the moral umbrage of a group of anti-abortion...

President Joe Biden promised during his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, that he would make the right to get an abortion a federal law.

“If...

Gradualism should have won out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, exerting gravitational influence on the majority and dissenters alike. In general...

Today, legal culture is shaped by One Big Question: should courts, particularly the US Supreme Court, have a lot of power? This question is affecting...

Research correlating stringency in land-use regulation to low housing supply, high housing costs, and segregation relies on surveys of planners about...

On December 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in Illumina, Inc. v. FTC. Although the court vacated and...

On January 17, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what are potentially the most significant commercial law cases of the last decade.  In the...

Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...

Cities have been largely absent from the theory and legal doctrine of federalism, especially in the United States, where federalism is understood to...

This Article introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS), an expert-sourced measure of judicial traits that can locate nearly...

An upcoming Supreme Court case on Article III standing and disability presents critical questions about the future of litigation that promotes...

It is widely believed that President Donald Trump’s judicial appointments reflected a strategy of appeasing evangelical Christians and other religious...

Cyber stalking involves repeated, often relentless targeting of someone with abuse. Death and rape threats may be part of a perpetrator’s playbook...

Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...

We apply a dynamic influence model to the opinions of the U.S. federal courts to examine the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in influencing the...

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