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New Controversies in Intermediary Liability Law Annemarie Bridy The challenge of keeping harmful and illegal content off the Internet ...

Tiffany Li What do we talk about when we talk about intermediary liability? Intellectual property laws likely come to mind first – the D...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin,  Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Democracy and D...

Supreme Court watchers know all about "defensive certiorari denials." This is when a Justice votes to deny review of a case becaus...

In today's New York Times, Tom Edsall gives an outstanding summary of the academic debate over whether Donald Trump is a disjunctive pr...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin,  Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Jedediah Britt...

The purpose of this post is to call attention to an excellent new article in the Yale Law Journal by Gregory Ablavsky.  It's called Empi...

Attention, first-year ConLaw students who haven't yet taken your final exams!:  You might want to consider how you'd answer that que...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin,  Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). I should say...

. . . with no end in sight. On this auspicious anniversary, re-upping my recent lament about the Vicious Entrenchment Cycle .

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Steven G. Calabr...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Eric Posner ...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, 2019). The Balkin-Levin...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Julia Azari ...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Corey Robin ...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Dear Jack and S...

For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago Press, 2019). In the afterwor...

This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Sandy's and my new book, Democracy and Dysfunction  (University of Chicago P...

I wanted to record the passing of my wonderful friend Frank Cross, a longtime faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin.   Other o...

David Super ends his post , "The legislative filibuster is crucial in preserving" the republic of statutes. The language of prese...

Warren Miller's 1959 science fiction novel A Canticle for Liebowitz describes a world taken over by the forces of irrationality. A sma...

When the question is whether the Court will police extreme partisan gerrymanders, certain Justices--most notably Chief Justice John Roberts-...

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in No. 18-966, Department of Commerce v. New York , a case challenging Commerce Secretary Wilbur...