State Constitutions and State Bills of Rights

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

The United States has granted reparations for a variety of historical injustices, from imprisonment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War...

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

In an era defined by partisan rifts and government gridlock, many celebrate the rare issues that prompt bipartisan consensus. But extreme consensus...

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local level are acquiring...

The decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard [SFFA], invalidating the use of race in college admissions, reignites...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Justice Thomas’s majority opinion announced that the key to applying originalist methodology...

In Poland, Venezuela, Rwanda, and several other countries, governments have in the past years altered basic rules of their constitutional system to...

On Aug. 14, a Montana district court released a groundbreaking decision for climate change activists. In Held v. Montana, the court announced that...

In Chile, many commentators, academics and political leaders have spent years arguing that the limited nature of the social rights in the national...