Sandy Levinson has always taken secession arguments seriously. This is, in my eyes, one of his great virtues. There are very few scholars who would... MORE
At the University of Virginia School of Law, we have recently commemorated the bicentennial of our founding, the centennial of coeducation and the... MORE
After reading “Four Fragments,” I returned to the journal I kept as a requirement of Dirk’s course. There, in the very first entry dated February 6,... MORE
For two surreal days this week, I sat next to the family of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.... MORE
In Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of... MORE
This symposium about the future of legal pedagogy could not be more timely. Its four thought-provoking papers raise a constellation of questions... MORE
Tort Law and the Construction of Change studies the interaction of law and social change in American history. Tort law—civil law made by judges, not... MORE
This essay details the efforts of William Henry Trescot, "executive agent" for South Carolina, to secure pardons for the state's lowcountry elite... MORE
This article uses history to explore how prominent international lawyers explain seemingly transgressive state behavior. It begins with the Russian... MORE
This essay, written for a symposium honoring John Henry Schlegel, is part intellectual history, part philosophical polemic. It first briefly compares... MORE
It has been a stimulating and exhausting task to reread much of John Henry Schlegel's efforts, over several decades, to work out his approach to... MORE
One can ask two different questions about a given social, political, or legal practice. First, how, if at all, do the ideas embodied in that practice... MORE
At first blush, the debate between Stanley Fish and Ronald Dworkin that took place over the course of the 1980s and early 90s seems to have produced... MORE
At the conclusion of Part I of American Secession, Frank Buckley declares that “it’s time to think seriously about Secession 2.0 as a possibility.”... MORE
The conventional view of Rule 48(a) dismissals distinguishes between two types of motions to dismiss: (1) those where dismissal would benefit the... MORE
