States of Emergency: Part II

Many disdain the use of consequences in legal interpretation. Yet it turns out that interpreters have long used consequences, particularly...

Alex Wentker’s book, which will stand as the definitive work on co-party status for years, offers an extremely careful and comprehensive look at the...

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 government’s attempt to remove Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident (LPR) of the United States and student at Columbia University, is a...

Donald Trump, a president who has proven himself to be highly transactional and keen on reducing debt, may find a potentially trillion-dollar foreign...

Virtue jurisprudence is an approach to normative legal theory that answers normative questions about law from a perspective that is centred on the...

Crosspollination between the transitional justice (tj) and business and human rights (B&H) fields has led to a growing scholarly focus on the role of...

Trump v. United States’s discovery of broad immunity has rendered the presidency more imperial and unaccountable. This Article tackles four questions...

National security decisions pose a paradox: they are among the most consequential a government can make, but are generally the least transparent to...

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...

Scholars regard the 1923 League of Nations experts’ report as the origin of the international tax system as we know it. The experts’ report noted the...

This Chapter discusses citizenship taxation as a potential solution to the challenges posed by increasing global mobility and the digitalization of...

A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” dangerous “trespassers”...

I suspect that CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd. caught the eye of the Supreme Court because of an interesting constitutional question...

For decades, Colombia has faced an ongoing series of armed conflicts involving a diverse range of non-official armed actors. The legal and public...

Curtis Bradley’s new book on Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs is the definitive account of a mode of constitutional interpretation that has proven...

Individual duties—like the responsibility to defend the country, pay taxes, or obey the law—are frequently included in national constitutions, but...