<p>Critics have dismissed originalism as an empty methodology. They claim it is incapable of resolving our most important constitutional disputes, including the

By Kate Andrias, Published on 01/01/15

A “witty thriller” (The New York Times) for middle-grade readers about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the...

What does nothing sound like? An offbeat history of John Cage’s 4’33”, a musical composition of blank bars, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka. One night in 1952, master...

An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of...

What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginab...

Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Working with Statutes,” by Anya Bernstein and Cristina Rodríguez, which is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Here is the abstract: In its 2024 decision overrul...

During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land.

Anya Bernstein & Cristina Rodríguez, The Accountable Bureaucrat, 132 Yale L.J. 1600 (2023).Wendy WagnerIs the bureaucracy a deep state run by unaccountable bureaucrats? Most of us in administrative la...