Compulsive Gambling and the Insanity Defense: United States v. Torniero and United States v. Lewellyn

Nationwide injunctions keep the Trump administration from violating federal law during the time it would take the US Supreme Court to intervene.

Trump v. United States is so intensely criticized that, in some quarters, it is at risk of being included in the anti-canon. It is alleged to be...

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

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...

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

The United States is undergoing a legal realignment, in that salient legal views recently associated with the right are now being espoused by the left...

This essay considers the future of public-private collaboration in the wake of the Murthy v. Missouri litigation, which cast doubt on the...

U.S. states traditionally play a minor role in establishing national security policies, which generally fall within the federal government’s remit...

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

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...

The idea of institutionalism figures prominently in today’s debates about the role of federal courts in American democracy. For example, Chief Justice...

History and precedent tell us that the just compensation requirement has been implemented by a complex network of remedies providing multiple avenues...

It has been a big moment for court reform. President Biden has proposed a slate of important if vaguely defined reforms, including a new ethics regime...

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...

After a term in which the conservative Roberts court swept aside the Chevron doctrine, a decision that will clip federal agencies’ authority to enact...

Memory issues stemming from criminal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses are well-known. However, the relevance of memory to law...