Rosalie Silberman Abella, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, offered a wide-ranging exploration of the differences between American and Canadian constitutional jurisprudence when she ...

The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law brought together legal scholars and practitioners on October 25, 2024, to explore constitutional interpretation in ...

The full title of Erwin Chemerinsky’s book says it all: Worse Than Nothing — The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School, tells readers that the doctrine of ...

A minor kerfuffle recently erupted in the world of academic constitutional theory over whether two ideas might be connected. The first is originalism: the idea that interpretation should recover the ...

Nadine Strossen, constitutional scholar and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor at New York Law School, and Earl M. Maltz, respected constitutional scholar and ...

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America. Ponnuru might be right about conservatives’ rhetorical success, ...

Breyer argues that not only were these decisions wrong in outcome — they went wrong in how they read the Constitution. In critiquing “textualism,” Breyer means the majority’s belief that a careful ...

Georgetown Center for the Constitution adjunct professor and Director Randy Barnett, along with adjunct professor Lawrence Solum, will host a weeklong seminar, “Originalism Boot Camp,” at the ...

The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory: Why We Need the Framers, by Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University Press, 248 pp., $32) Donald L. Drakeman’s 2020 book, The Hollow Core of Constitutional ...

I recently read Judge Jeffrey Sutton's excellent new book, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. As readers may know, the book argues for a rejuvenation of ...

President Joe Biden apparently believes the U.S. Constitution that he swore to uphold and defend is different today than when he was sworn into office. In his mind, the Constitution isn’t the ...