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Introducing New Voices
(Journal of Law, 2014)
Students rarely have the time to repackage last semester's research for submission to law reviews. Even if they do, law reviews are loathe to publish work submitted by students. Publication in a peer-reviewed journal is ...
Introduction: Is the Supreme Court Failing at Its Job, or Are We Failing at Ours?
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
It is a pleasure and a privilege to write an introduction to this Symposium celebrating Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's important new book, The Case Against the Supreme Court. Chemerinsky is one of the leading constitutional ...
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 ...
Normalizing Erie
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
This Article argues that the Erie doctrine should be normalized by bringing it into line with ordinary doctrines of federalism. Under ordinary federalism doctrines – such as the dormant commerce clause, implied preemption, ...
Property is the New Privacy
(Harvard law Review, 2015)
Richard Epstein’s new book, The Classical Liberal Constitution, is the latest entry in what might be called conservative foundationalist constitutional theory. The movement’s primary goal is to elevate judicial protection ...
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 ...
Foundational Facts and Doctrinal Change
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2011)
Doctrine is at the center of law and legal analysis. This Article argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood its nature. The conventional approach to legal doctrine focuses on theory and applications. What is the ...
Wrong, Out of Step, and Pernicious: Erie as the Worst Decision of All Time
(Pepperdine Law Review, 2011)
This essay was written for “Supreme Mistakes: Exploring the Most Maligned Decisions in Supreme Court History.” A symposium on the worst Supreme Court decision of all time risks becoming an exercise best described by Claude ...
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 ...