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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Most Dangerous Justice Rides into the Sunset
(Constitutional Commentary, 2007)
In this essay, our third and last in a series, we employ our previously developed techniques to measure the power of the Justices in the Rehnquist Court over its full 11 year run. Once again, Justice Kennedy rises to the ...
The Most Dangerous Justice Rides Again: Revisiting the Power Pageant of the Justices
(Minnesota Law Review, 2001)
Who is the most powerful Supreme Court Justice? In 1996 we measured voting power on the Court according to each Justice's ability to form five-member coalitions. From the set of all coalitions formed by the Court during ...
RFRA-Vote Gambling: Why Paulsen is Wrong, As Usual
(Constitutional Commentary, 1997)
Supreme Court currents are no less treacherous to navigators than are river currents-and, as Michael Paulsen himself has previously pointed out, RFRA shares more than a linguistic resonance with a river.1 Unfortunately, ...
Democracy's Distrust: Contested Values and the Decline of Expertise
(Harvard Law Review Forum, 2011)
This response to Professor Dan Kahan’s recent Harvard Foreword, Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law, argues that while Kahan accurately describes the contemporary “neutrality ...
Cartels by Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny?
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2014)
It has been over a hundred years since George Bernard Shaw wrote that “[a]ll professions are a conspiracy against the laity.” Since then, the number of occupations and the percentage of workers subject to occupational ...
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 ...