Balkinization

First things first:  I strongly recommend to everyone Mary Sarah Bilder's new article, Without Doors:  Native Nations and the Convention...

The Illinois Law Review has just published an online symposium on President Biden's First 100 Days in office. Forty contributors offer ...

My Balkinization coblogger Mark Tushnet is unpersuaded by the argument of my book, Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty? The Unnecessary Conflic...

Today the Census Bureau released the long-awaited population data that will be used for the next reapportionment of House seats and electora...

This week, the Fordham Law Review published a symposium called The Federalist Constitution.  The central impetus for the symposium, as expla...

 Reflecting on the reported advance for Amy Coney Barrett's book: She has a salary of $265,600, a spouse who works for a small law firm,...

Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus   Puerto Rico’s future is on the agenda in Congress. Last week, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a con...

Justice Barrett inked a book deal yesterday for a reported $2 million advance. Press reports say that the book will be about "how judge...

Tandon v. Newsom was a 5-4 decision against California's COVID-19 order limiting more than three households from gathering in homes.  T...

Some parts of the Republican Party might appear to have suffered only mild cases of Trumpism, emphasizing the traditional conservative parts...

Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Martin J. Sherwin's new book,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roule...

A federal court of appeals was so unsympathetic to a transgender student that it sloppily misstated what had happened in the case and gave f...

For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis  (Knopf, 2020...

A common belief, at least in advanced capitalist societies, is that state law is the supreme, unified, hierarchical, and exclusive legal ord...

Do teachers have the right to address their students with racial slurs? Is hostile environment harassment law unconstitutional? Those are am...

Tarunabh Khaitan For the first time since 2001,  there are more autocracies  in the world than democracies. In 2019, 54% of the world’s po...

  Dear [Names withheld to protect the guilty]: I demand to be paid as the real winner of your NCAA pool.  If the scores had been fairly ta...

For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis  (Knopf, 2020...

Via Paul Caron's blog, I saw this astonishing op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune, authored by presidents of three San Diego bar assoc...

For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis  (Knopf, 2020...

I want to take a moment to talk about H.R. 1405, the legislation introduced in the House to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendmen...

For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis  (Knopf, 2020...

            Steven B. Smith, who teaches political theory at Yale, has just published, with the Yale Press, an interesting book Reclaiming P...

For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin,  Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis  (Knopf, 2020...