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From Judge to Justice: Social Background Theory and the Supreme Court
(North Carolina Law Review, 2008)
The Roberts Court Justices already have revealed many differences from one another, but they also share a (possibly) significant commonality: Presidents promoted all of them to the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Courts ...
How is Constitutional Law Made?
(Michigan Law Review, 2002)
Professors George and Pushaw review Maxwell L. Stearns’ book, "Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court decision making." In his book, Stearns demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court fashions ...
Lafler v. Cooper and AEDPA
(Yale Law Journal Online, 2012)
The Supreme Court in Missouri v. Frye1 and Lafler v. Cooper2 broke new ground by holding for the first time that a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment can be violated by the ...
What's Law Got to Do With It?
(Perspectives on Politics, 2004)
The authors of this fascinating study modestly disclaim its significance, yet suggest that the results prove their model a success. As a legal expert, I have a rather different perspective on the results. I look at the ...
The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective
(Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2003)
Like Congress, the Supreme Court must delegate a great deal of its work, in this case to lower courts rather than to agencies. Since the Supreme Court is formally at the apex of the judicial pyramid, the Court's decisions ...
Emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)
In Gonzales v. Carhart the Supreme Court invoked post-abortion regret to justify a ban on a particular abortion procedure. The Court was proudly folk-psychological, representing its observations about women's emotional ...
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 ...
Of Dialogue--And Democracy--In Administrative Law
(Columbia Law Review Sidebar, 2012)
Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...
The Four Pillars of Constitutional Doctrine
(Cardozo Law Review, 2011)
Constitutional interpretation, and thus constitutional doctrine, is inevitably controversial. Judges, scholars, lawyers, politicians, and the American public all disagree among themselves, not only about the correct ...
Justice Ginsburg's Gradualism in Criminal Procedure
(Ohio State Law Journal, 2009)
This article, written for a symposium analyzing Justice Ginsburg’s jurisprudence on the 15th anniversary of her tenure on the Supreme Court, is the first sustained look at her views on criminal procedure issues (search and ...