For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).Laura Gamboa
Though often thought as linear and cohesive the literature
on democratic resilience struggles with two relatively opposing premises. On
the
For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).Sabrina Ragone
There is much to admire in Mark Tushnet and Bojan
Bugaric’s Constitutionalism and Its Discontents, beginning with the
ambition
This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric’s new book, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).
We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including Colm O’Cinneide (University College London),
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.Claudia E. Haupt
Professional
AI’s Dual Trust Problem
Each day,
more than forty million people ask ChatGPT health
questions. When OpenAI and Anthropic launched dedicated health AI tools that
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.Ava Liu
There is a problem with the concept of “predistribution”,
which is that the idea is ill-defined. At the broadest level, predistribution is
defined as what is not
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.Amy L. Stein
It has
been three and a half years since ChatGPT exploded on the scene, and many have
yet to wrap their heads around the environmental, economic,
For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.
Ignacio Cofone
[This essay distills part
of the argument in Ignacio Cofone, Institutional Accountability and
Legitimate Inference in Algorithmic Adjudication: Beyond Trustworthy AI,
forthcoming in Cambridge Forum on
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people’s children,
slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump Administration had its
way. It’s pressing
states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger
campaign against settled
medical practice.
The Fourth Circuit today held that a South Carolina law restricting “no-excuse” absentee mail-in ballots to voters 65 and older violates the 26th Amendment. This decision stands in contrast to other circuits that upheld related laws during the pandemic. The
