Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, National Archives (US-PD) On October 15, Canopy Forum, hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will be organizin...

Measles and SSPE kill more often than doctors once believed. The Trump administration's vaccine exemptions could expose thousands of children to it.

Mollie Hemingway offers up an uncritical biography of Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s most conservative jurist.

The Supreme Court says citizenship can't depend on your parents' immigration status. So why are millions of American families still being torn apart?

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Today's free-speech debates tend to focus on its social utility. But John Milton and John Stuart Mill made a deeper case: that a regime of free discourse makes us into better people, cultivating the m...

This law is the kind of manipulative state fake-piety that promotes contempt for the real thing.

Its case that liberalism must turn into its opposite is based on feelings, not theory or real world evidence

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One hardly knows where to begin.

In the recent case of Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Supreme Court abandoned Lemon v. Kurtzman, the 50-year-old principal Establishment Clause test.   Inst

A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.

In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.

Andrew Koppelman delves into Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze’s “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.”

Theater is a potent medium for showing us the truth of what people do to one another.

2025 Chicago-Kent Law Review Online Live Symposium Symposium Editors Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law Kathleen A. Brady, Emory University Chicago-Kent College of Law February 21, 2025 Con...

Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s not-so-mere Natural Law Theory Andrew Koppelman* Law can’t be separated from morality, because law is a kind of human conduct.  So is compliance with the law.  Morality co…

The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.

Ayn Rand's libertarian ideas have infiltrated evangelicalism. In some circles Christians are taught to be selfish and ignore the poor. Are these the teachings of Jesus? In this episode we learn what l...

A review of Jerome Copulsky, “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” (Yale University Press, 2024). 

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