Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution - Collected Posts

Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet's new book, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).

1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium.

2. Leah Litman, Courts, The Academy, and Politics.

3. Jack Balkin, Taking back the Constitution in an era of high polarization.

4. Aaron Belkin, Conservative Judges Doing Law All the Way down are Politicians in Robes.

5. D. A. Jeremy Telman, There Are No Balls and Strikes in Constitutional Hardball.

6. Sandy Levinson, Mark Tushnet and the "Next Age" Struggling to be Born.

7. Julia Azari, Constitutional meaning at a time of democratic crisis.

8. Stephen Griffin, Tushnet’s Taking Back the Constitution.

9. Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Reports of the Reagan Era’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated.

10. Mark Tushnet, Realistic Utopianism.