Adoption, Identity, and the Constitution: The Case for Opening Closed Records

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...

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

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

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...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

This Article considers the interaction between marriage, households, and public welfare-type benefits. In light of constant cultural and media...

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...

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

Singlehood is becoming an increasingly important social identity category. Thousands of people are members of Facebook groups such as I am my Own...

Congress may want to prevent nuclear command and control from going fully autonomous. Would such a law be constitutional?

In our increasingly polarized society, claims that prosecutions are politically motivated, racially motivated, or just plain arbitrary are more common...

When federal judges are called on to adjudicate separation-of-powers disputes, they are not mere arbiters of the separation of powers. By resolving a...

The pathway to stable and secure middle-class status involves two elements: the ability to postpone family formation to facilitate human capital...