Main Saturday, July 12, 2025How Should the “Only Nationally Elected Official” Behave?As has been the case all year–and indeed is generally the case–most of the interesting developments in constitutional law in the last few weeks, especially those involving separation of
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An Open-Source Free Contracts Casebook
Main Friday, July 11, 2025An Open-Source Free Contracts CasebookAfter several years of working with Guy Rub, Jake Linford, Tal Kastner, Pam Bookman, and Matt Bodie, we are excited to release to the world a free…
The Bayh Subcommittee and the 1960s–Let the Revisionism Begin
Main Friday, July 11, 2025The Bayh Subcommittee and the 1960s–Let the Revisionism BeginIf you ask Americans what stood out in politics or law from the 1960s, what would they say? Most law professors would say the Warren Court and civil…
Ted Cruz Is Not a Fourteenth Amendment Citizen
Off the Record on Miranda
Main Thursday, July 10, 2025Off the Record on MirandaThe new issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History contains a remarkable article. Catherine Ladnier, then an undergraduate, managed to get off-the-record interviews with five of the Justices who sat in…
CFP: Georgia Law Review: Polarized Courts: The New Private Enforcement
Main Thursday, July 10, 2025CFP: Georgia Law Review: Polarized Courts: The New Private EnforcementAnnouncement.As the Executive Symposium Editors for Volume 60 of Georgia Law Review, it is our pleasure to announce our annual symposium for Spring 2026: Polarized…
Law School Faculty Hiring Posting Schedule 2025-2026
Main Wednesday, July 09, 2025Law School Faculty Hiring Posting Schedule 2025-2026The usual posts will occur this year regarding law school faculty hiring.The post collecting information about Hiring Committees is up.On August 14, 2025, AALS will release the first distribution of…
Institutional Leadership and the 1980 Election
Main Wednesday, July 09, 2025Institutional Leadership and the 1980 ElectionOne reason I’m researching the Bayh Subcommittee is that this was an era where Congress dominated constitutional discourse. Each branch takes its turn as the constitutional engine. Today you’d have to…
Structural Predictions
Main Tuesday, July 08, 2025Structural PredictionsThe Bayh Subcommittee spent more time and energy on abolishing the Electoral College than on any other subject. During the 1970s, one argument against that idea was that black voters would be put at a…
The Ghost of Miranda
Main Monday, July 07, 2025The Ghost of MirandaOne subject that drew a lot of attention from Birch Bayh’s Senate Subcommittee was Miranda. Blockbuster hearings were held in 1966 that included testimony by Arlen Specter (then a young prosecutor in Philadelphia…