Do the Justices Vote like Policy Makers? Evidence from Scaling the Supreme Court with Interest Groups

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

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of US political scientists, a new generation of...

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

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

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...

Donald J. Trump appointed 234 federal judges in his first term. Trump, as is his wont, claims, with an inflated number, that he appointed a record...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

Legal ethicists, advocacy groups, and politicians have called for greater restrictions on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) when parties...

In recent years, the federal courts have seen a plethora of lawsuits originated by states challenging federal government actions. As a result, there...

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...

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

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...

This paper describes the response of George Washington's administration to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to...

This Essay reports data on the impact of Bruen and its predecessor, Heller, on gun rights cases. Put mildly, the impact was substantial, not only in...

On March 1, 2024, the University of Richmond Law Review hosted a symposium entitled Vestiges of the Confederacy: Reckoning with the Legacy of the...

Contract terms that improve or reduce the likelihood of repayment of a debt should impact its price. That’s basic economics. But what about a contract...

In this paper we investigate whether gender is associated with the content of judicial opinions in the U.S. courts of appeals. Using a topic model...

Donald J. Trump's presidency broke the mold in many ways, including how to think about judicial appointments. Unlike other recent presidents, Trump...