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Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or Why the Other Essays Prove My Point)
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2013)
As all the Roundtable essays note, DaimlerChrysler asks the Supreme Court to decide whether and when the in-forum activities of a corporate subsidiary should give rise to general personal jurisdiction over the corporate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...