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Judges of Character
(Wake Forest L. Rev., 2003)
For forty years, legal academics have been lost in a wilderness born of the countermajoritarian difficulty. Despite a two-century pedigree, we are still arguing about the legitimacy of judicial review and asking whether ...
Pick a Number, Any Number: State Representation in Congress After the 2000 Census
(California Law Review, 2002)
In this essay, Professors Edelman and Sherry explain the mathematics behind the allocation of congressional seats to each state, and survey the different methods of allocation that Congress has used over the years. Using ...
Irresponsibility Breeds Contempt
(Green Bag 2D, 2002)
Everyone is picking on the Supreme Court these days. To be sure, some of the
criticism is warranted: the Court has butchered history - to say nothing of constitutional
text - in its attempt to interpret the Eleventh ...
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 ...
Democracy Uncaged
(Constitutional Commentary, 2008)
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 ...
Overruling Erie: Nationwide Class Actions and National Common Law
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2008)
In this essay, part of a symposium on the Class Action Fairness Act, I argue that CAFA should be read as having overruled Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins as applied to the nationwide class actions that fall within CAFA's ...
States Are People Too
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2000)
There is a joke making the rounds that purports to explain the Supreme Court's 1998-1999 Term, especially the three federalism cases decided on the last day: The Y2K bug hit the Court six months early, and the Court thought ...
Too Clever By Half: The Problem with Novelty in Constitutional Law
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
As Robert Bennett's article illustrates, the "counter-majoritarian difficulty" remains--some forty years after its christening--a central theme in constitutional scholarship. [See Robert W. Bennett, "Counter-Conversationalism ...
Politics and Judgment
(Missouri Law Review, 2005)
Two hundred years after its most famous invocation in Marbury v. Madison, judicial review has apparently lost its luster. Despite its global spread, it is in disrepute in its country of origin. The mainstream American ...
Logic Without Experience: The Problem of Federal Appellate Courts
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2006)
Conventional wisdom holds that federal jurisdiction is contracting and district court discretion is expanding. This Article argues that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and that the true doctrinal trends do not bode well ...