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Hogs Get Slaughtered at the Supreme Court
(The Supreme Court Review, 2011)
Class action plaintiffs lost two major five-to-four cases last Term, with potentially significant consequences for future class litigation: AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion and Wal-Mart v. Dukes. The tragedy is that the impact ...
Liberty's Safety Net
(Green Bag 2D, 2013)
I am honored and humbled by the breadth and depth of the responses to my essay on judicial activism, including Richard Epstein's very generous introduction. Each of the contributors has packed a tremendous amount of insight ...
Why We Need More Judicial Activism
(Green Bag, 2013)
Too much of a good thing can be bad, and democracy is no exception. In the United States, the antidote to what the drafters of the Constitution called “the excess of democracy” is judicial review. Lately, however, judicial ...
Term Limits and Turmoil: Roe v. Wade's "Whiplash"
(Texas Law Review, 2019)
A fixed eighteen-year term for Supreme Court Justices has become a popular proposal with both academics and the general public as a possible solution to the countermajoritarian difficulty and as a means for depoliticizing ...
The Classical Constitution and the Historical Constitution: Separated at Birth
(New York University Journal of law & Liberty, 2014)
As part of symposium on Richard Epstein’s new book, The Classical Liberal Constitution, this article points out that his purportedly historical approach is actually present-oriented, which undermines two particular parts ...
Is the Supreme Court Failing at Its Job, or Are We Failing at Ours
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016-05)
Sanford Levinson calls for a new constitutional convention in Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). This review explains how Levinson overstates the ...
Confidentiality Is Wishful Thinking ...
(Green Bag 3d, 2017)
Confidentiality in the tenure review process.
A Pox on Both Your Houses
(Journal of law, Economics and Policy, 2013)
As Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins celebrates its 75th anniversary, it is becoming more apparent that it is on a collision course with itself. The Court keeps trying – and failing – to sort out the tensions within the Erie ...
Selective Judicial Activism
(Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2016)
This Essay, written for a symposium asking “Is the Rational Basis Test Unconstitutional?,” defends the bifurcated-scrutiny approach of Carolene Products and its famous footnote four. A growing cadre of conservative and ...
Don't Answer That!
(Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2013)
Forget hard cases: "bad" cases make bad law. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Bauman, which never should have been filed in a California federal court, has the potential to make very bad law. It is a paradigmatic example of egregious ...