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Legal Theory Blog
Campbell on Declaratory Rights at the Founding
Jud Campbell (Stanford Law School) has posted Determining Rights (138 Harvard Law Review 921 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article explores Founding-era views about the grounding of…
Legal Theory Blog
Ahmed on Theories of Representation and Election Law
Ashraf Ahmed (Columbia Law School) has posted The Two Faces of Representation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Despite broad judicial and scholarly agreement that representation is central to election…
PrawfsBlawg
Defining misinformation
Main Friday, February 14, 2025Defining misinformationFree speech advocates opposed government efforts, urged by members of the public, to restrict and eliminate misinformation about COVID, the 2020 election, January 6, conversion…
PrawfsBlawg
Symposium: “In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society”
Main Wednesday, February 12, 2025Symposium: "In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society"I'm looking forward to this symposium, being sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Law Review:…
PrawfsBlawg
Time is a flat circle, sport-and-speech edition
Main Monday, February 03, 2025Time is a flat circle, sport-and-speech editionMy first published article at FIU, Symbolic Counter-Speech, explored the idea of using symbols to protest the symbols themselves. Examples…
Family Law Prof Blog
Gilles: “Federal Free-Exercise Challenges to Restrictive Abortion Laws”
By Family Law
Stephen Gilles (Quinnipiac University - School of Law) has recently posted to SSRN his paper, Federal Free-Exercise Challenges to Restrictive Abortion Laws. Here is the abstract:Now that Dobbs has abolished…
The Right Coast
Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it…
Legal Profession Blog
Veritas
The en banc United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a challenge by Project Veritas to the constitutionality of an Oregon statute that criminalizes surreptitious recordingAppellants Project…
Religion Clause
4th Circuit: Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply in Challenge to No Religious Exemption in Vaccination Law
In West Virginia Parents for Religious Freedom v. Christiansen, (4th Cir., Dec. 31, 2024), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision held that a West Virginia federal…
Legal Profession Blog
No Bless Oblige
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissing employment-related claims of a plaintiff who supervised the preparation of kosher food, as noted in…