Article II of the Constitution says that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Ever since the 1980s, it has be

Matthew B. Lawrence and Mark Nevitt (both Emory University School of Law) have posted Reviving the Military’s Term Limit (G.W. L. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues for the revival of a dormant constitutional safeguard that the Framers intended to keep the military accountable to the people. The safeguard is the Constitution’s forgotten Two-Year Clause, which prohibits Congress from appropriating funds “to raise and support Armies” for a period longer than two years.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., stopped by two University of Virginia School of Law classes on Tuesday during his visit to UVA to receive this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

A Festschrift in Honor of   Professor Kenneth S. Abraham And the 40th anniversary of his first book, Distributing Risk Hosted by the Insurance Law Center at ...

Beyond Trump's vitriol in speeches and social media posts, his administration has launched a more systematic effort at the Supreme Court to diminish the power of the federal judiciary, a Reuters analy...

Alli Orr Larsen (William & Mary Law School) & Thomas McSweeney (William & Mary Law School) have posted Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Useable Past on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has prompted a renewed interest in the far distant past – the laws and customs of the Middle Ages.

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Naomi Cahn, Trusting Remedies for the Child Influencer Space: Blocked Trust Accounts and Child Beneficiaries, 17 Drexel L. Rev. 971 (2025).Victoria J. HanemanProfessor Naomi Cahn’s recent article, Tru...

Bannon already served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for his conviction on the charges.

The expiration of the comptroller general’s term is an opportunity for Congress to reassert itself, or retreat further.

Professor Rachel Bayefsky of the University of Virginia School of Law has won the Association of American Law Schools’ Junior Scholarship Award for her scholarship in civil procedure. Professor Payvan...

Professor Rachel Bayefsky of the University of Virginia School of Law has won the Association of American Law Schools’ Junior Scholarship Award for her scholarship in civil procedure. Professor Payvan...

Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction, manipulation, and more. Almost all of their proposals, a...

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The Warren Court’s legacy is ubiquitous. With the eponymous Chief Justice Warren at the helm, the Supreme Court featured a strong majority of left-of-center jurists, and those “liberal lions” ruled (o...

A revolution has occurred in the law of religious freedom. At this point, the picture is reasonably clear. The Supreme Court has greatly expanded the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.

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A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.

In a new paper, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alison Gocke examines how legal frameworks are in flux amid the transition to clean energy.

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