This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

A conversation with Jonathan Quong about his recent book, "Political Philosophy" (Princeton UP).

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

Indiana’s top court is about to become the first in the nation to decide whether there’s a religious right to abortion.

<p><span>The legal architecture of the Defense Department’s domestic operations significantly changed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. This was perhaps most

How liberals learned to stop worrying and love the establishment.

By James M. Oleske, Jr.. James M. Oleske, Jr. discusses recent decisions to distort precedent, overlook original meaning, and minimize discrimination's harms, ultimately causing a retreat from equal d...

Separation-of-powers formalists treat the Constitution’s Vesting Clauses—the first sentences of Articles I, II, and III—as sources of substantive law. Perhaps m

Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding (forthcoming in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: American civil rights law has always been tied to the project of building a multiracial democracy that guarantees full and equal membership in the community and an equal opportunity to flourish.

Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Public Health State (68 William &amp; Mary L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2027)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The American public health system is in crisis. This Essay, presented as the 2026 Wythe Lecture at the William &amp; Mary Law School, argues that the crisis is not merely a story about Robert F.

Embedded in a recently decided Supreme Court case about Cuba and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act—Exxon Mobil v. Cimex—was a debate about the basic purpose of suing foreign government entities.  T...

YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law

<p>American civil rights law has always been tied to the project of building a multiracial democracy that guarantees full and equal membership in the community

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Scholars recently gathered in Connecticut this month for a “festschrift” celebrating University of Virginia School of Law professor Kenneth S. Abraham’s lasting impact on insurance law and tort theory...

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to ...

University of Virginia School of Law professor Alice Abrokwa has won the 2026 John Hope Franklin Prize for her article examining the impact of the label “noncompliant” being disproportionately applied...

The 2026 McGlothlin Award for Exceptional Teaching has been granted to Professor Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl of William & Mary Law School and to Professor Dawn Edmiston of the Raymond A. Mason School of Bus...

National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments

<p><i>In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected separa

Across the American economy, the wall between church and company is crumbling. Businesses large and small have taken on religious identities and now conduct their corporate affairs according to religi...

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

In this symposium contribution, we argue that Catholic integralism is unreasonable. Our conception of reasonableness is defined in terms of substantive moral and epistemic commitments to respecting t...

Artificial intelligence in the workplace has employers grappling with a new legal issue: whether to accommodate employees seeking exemptions from using the technology because of their religion.

Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted The Asymmetry of Religious Motivation (135 Y.L.J.F. 467 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s current approach to religious freedom reflects an asymmetric view of religious motivation. Under the Free Exercise Clause, the Court has increasingly embraced a motivational sufficiency principle, according to which a person’s sincere religious motivation is sufficient to render an act religious and therefore eligible for accommodation.

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