'Radwan v. Manuel' involves a rich legal playbook—First Amendment, Due Process, qualified immunity and sex discrimination—but leaves us in First Amendment stasis and a familiar qualified immunity ...

Condemning an entire faith and singling out its followers for disfavored and unequal treatment by the government violates the Constitution, it turns out. That principle might seem obvious to anyone ...

Launched in May 2025 by the College of Liberal Arts, under the leadership of Dean Casilde Isabelli and Executive Director Rick Trachok, the Center promotes interdisciplinary research and dialogue on ...

Professor Matthew Segal, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s State Supreme Court Initiative, is joining the political science department for a second semester as a professor of ...

Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...

The duty of good faith and fair dealing is so important to commercial life that it is deemed an implied term in commercial agreements. Is something similar essential to the practice of constitutional ...

Today's New York Times has a piece by Jesse Wegman on "The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law" that reflects the kinds of sentiments I've heard at conferences, lunch tables, and especially on ...

The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. This piece originally appeared in The New York Review of Books. We ...

A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak writes The Docket, a ...

The study of the Constitution is, for many, one of the most fascinating parts of law school. Understanding the Constitution and the debates that surround its interpretation is central to a wide range ...