“A Terror to Their Neighbors”: Beliefs about Mental Disorder and Violence in Historical and Cultural Perspective

Where do future disabilities fit within the law?  Disability civil rights laws expressly extend rights to individuals with present or past...

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of the federal constitutional right to abortion has raised the specter of criminal and civil liability for abortion...

In the last five years, 27 states have passed bans prohibiting transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care. These treatments include...

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...

The Cass Review on gender-affirming care, which has been used to justify bans in U.S. states, transgresses medical law, policy, and practice, which...

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

This chapter critiques the twin World Health Organization (WHO) principles of self-sufficiency and nonremuneration in organs and blood, urging a more...

Lack of criminal responsibility due to “legal insanity” is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in the criminal legal system.  Contrary to...

Suddenly, the term “civil war” is everywhere, from state and federal immigration battles to abortion access to environmental regulation to election...

Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who were recently...

Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an...

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...

Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...

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

The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...