E-mail:
Jack Balkin: jackbalkin at yahoo.com
Bruce Ackerman bruce.ackerman at yale.edu
Ian Ayres ian.ayres at yale.edu
Corey Brettschneider corey_brettschneider at brown.edu
Mary Dudziak mary.l.dudziak at emory.edu
Joey Fishkin joey.fishkin at gmail.com
Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu
Abbe Gluck abbe.gluck at yale.edu
Mark Graber mgraber at law.umaryland.edu
Stephen Griffin sgriffin at tulane.edu
Jonathan Hafetz jonathan.hafetz at shu.edu
Jeremy Kessler jkessler at law.columbia.edu
Andrew Koppelman akoppelman at law.northwestern.edu
Marty Lederman msl46 at law.georgetown.edu
Sanford Levinson slevinson at law.utexas.edu
David Luban david.luban at gmail.com
Gerard Magliocca gmaglioc at iupui.edu
Jason Mazzone mazzonej at illinois.edu
Linda McClain lmcclain at bu.edu
John Mikhail mikhail at law.georgetown.edu
Frank Pasquale pasquale.frank at gmail.com
Nate Persily npersily at gmail.com
Michael Stokes Paulsen michaelstokespaulsen at gmail.com
Deborah Pearlstein dpearlst at yu.edu
Rick Pildes rick.pildes at nyu.edu
David Pozen dpozen at law.columbia.edu
Richard Primus raprimus at umich.edu
K. Sabeel Rahmansabeel.rahman at brooklaw.edu
Alice Ristroph alice.ristroph at shu.edu
Neil Siegel siegel at law.duke.edu
David Super david.super at law.georgetown.edu
Brian Tamanaha btamanaha at wulaw.wustl.edu
Nelson Tebbe nelson.tebbe at brooklaw.edu
Mark Tushnet mtushnet at law.harvard.edu
Adam Winkler winkler at ucla.edu
With some women lining up to vote today in white in honor of the woman suffrage movement, I thought it would be a good time for a short reflection -- not on the negative and perilous campaign that's finally ending -- but on what the promise of a Clinton presidency might be.
If elected, Hillary Clinton could have a historic presidency
in more ways than one. Shattering the nation’s highest glass ceiling is
tremendously important, though, as the campaign made clear, it won’t eliminate
misogyny but could even amplify it. Clinton’s history-making could extend to domestic policy as she would enter office with a policy vision,
and a deep understanding of the workings of Congress and the Executive Branch.
Of particular importance will be disability rights and hopefully civil rights generally and immigration. It is significant to finally have a candidate who makes disability rights a priority. Whether Clinton would have a landmark presidency depends on whether the Democrats
gain a Senate majority, and also on whether a chastened Republican party
rebuilds by prioritizing governance over obstruction, making compromise
possible. On matters of war and peace, Clinton would shatter forever any
remnants of the idea that women are more peace-loving. She would inherit a
troublesome infrastructure initiated in the George W. Bush administration and
embedded more deeply by Barack Obama. We would likely see the continuation of
endless “light footprint” military engagement without meaningful democratic
constraint, in part because most Americans, untouched by the costs of war, pay
little notice.