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Friday, September 06, 2024

Against Some Common Versions of Constitutional Originalism: A Comment on Jonathan Gienapp

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Contemporary originalism has two components: a historical component describing the original public meaning/understanding of specific constit...

Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, The Political Development of American Debt Relief-- Collected Posts

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Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, The Political Development of American Deb...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Class, Race, U.S. Statebuilding and Popular Constitutionalism

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...

Blogging Sabbatical

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I've been an active blogger for fifteen years. After much reflection, I've decided that it's time for an extended break. Academi...
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Democracy As Collective Action

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel,  The Collective-Action Constitution  (Oxford University Press, 2024) Guy-Uriel Charles  ...
Tuesday, September 03, 2024

The Collective Action Constitution and the Conscientious Legislator

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel,  The Collective-Action Constitution  (Oxford University Press, 2024) David A. Strauss ...
Monday, September 02, 2024

What Comes Next?

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I'm reposting this essay that I wrote after Trump v. Anderson. Other than changing "President Biden" to "President Biden...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

The Administrative State and the Collective-Action Constitution

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel,  The Collective-Action Constitution  (Oxford University Press, 2024) Jessica Bulman-Poz...
Friday, August 30, 2024

What is the “Collective-Action Constitution”?

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel,  The Collective-Action Constitution  (Oxford University Press, 2024) Richard M. Re Neil...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Collective Action Constitution(s)

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel,  The Collective-Action Constitution  (Oxford University Press, 2024) The basic thesis of ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Will a Credible Public Please Stand Up?

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Public law discourse and practice revolve around the concept of the public. Public opinion is said to constrain the Court, curtail executive...

Restoring Faith in Congress

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel, The Collective-Action Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2024)   Tara Leigh Grove ...

Balkinization Symposium on Neil S. Siegel, The Collective-Action Constitution

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This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Neil Siegel's new book, The Collective-Action Constitution (Oxford Universit...
Monday, August 26, 2024

The District of Columbia in Contingent Presidential Elections

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Suppose a presidential election ends in a 269-269 tie. That would a trigger a contingent election in the House of Representatives with each ...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Supreme Court Endorses Neutrality Triangulation Approach to Constitutionality of Platform Regulation

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  Matthew B. Lawrence   On July 27 the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act.   The bill, a major federal public health measure regulati...

Ideas and Interest: or Why the Have-Nots Used to Come Out Ahead

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Debt Relief and the Multifaceted American State

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The Meanings and Pathways of American Political Development

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Call For Papers--National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLARS THE REHNQUIST CENTER is pleased to announce the seventh annual National Conference of Co...

Move Over, Grant McConnell

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Debt relief as a window onto the American state

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

Is Democracy Coming to the USA? (with a nod to Leonard Cohen)

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Reading/skimming Democratizing Constitutional Law (Thomas Bustamente & Bernanrdo Goncalves Fernandes eds. 2016), in which I have a short...

Turning the Kaleidoscope on Debt Relief: What APD can Teach Us about How and When Politics Works

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...
Friday, August 16, 2024

State-building in the Judiciary, Judicial Independence, and Judicial State-building

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...

Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution-- Collected Posts

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Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Alison LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Federalism, the Business Cycle, Debtor Organization and the Politics of Debt

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...

Both Descendants and Ancestors: A Response to the Contributors

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. LaCroix,  The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

On the Genre “Too Much Law/Too Little Law”

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  The publication of “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law” by Justice Gorsuch and Janie Nitze (no link, deliberately), coupled with...

And Forgive Us Our Debts: Race, Class, and Ideologies in America

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston,  The Political Development of American Debt Relief  (University of Chica...

Balkinization symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, The Political Development of American Debt Relief

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This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston's new book, The Political Development of Amer...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

The continuing importance of Ernest Renan

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Sandy Levinson John Mikhail has written a wonderful (in every sense of the word) review of Alison LaCroix’s pathbreaking reminder of the ...

Balkinization Symposiums-- A Continuing List

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Over the the years we've done dozens of symposiums here at Balkinization. This list offers a summary of the books and subjects we've...
Monday, August 05, 2024

A Federalism of Forgetting and Reimagining

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms ...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

From Ideological Origins to the Interbellum Constitution

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. LaCroix,  The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms ...
Saturday, August 03, 2024

Trump v. Anderson and the Collective-Action Constitution

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I have posted on SSRN a new essay , entitled  Narrow But Deep: The  McCulloch  Principle, Collective-Action Theory, and Section 3 Enforcemen...

“Interbellum” versus “Antebellum,” or the Perils of Periodization

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For the Balkinization Symposium on Alison L. LaCroix,  The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms ...