Professor Rappaport is Darling Foundation Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism. Professor Rappaport is the author of numerous law review articles in journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Georgetown Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. His book, Originalism and the Good Constitution, which is co-authored with John McGinnis, will be published by the Harvard University Press in 2013. Professor Rappaport is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he received a JD and a DCL (Law and Political Theory).
For many years, liberal critics of Justice Clarence Thomas portrayed him as an evil and unintelligent justice. He was just a conservative hack, who was not smart enough to ask a question to the learned attorneys who argued Supreme Court …
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr notes the cert petition, coauthored by UCLA legal historian Stuart Banner, arguing that the dual sovereignty doctrine of double jeopardy law – which holds that a prosecution by the state for a …
Over at NRO, Andrew McCarthy criticizes Rand Paul’s new legislation that provides that:
1. The collection of citizen’s phone records is a violation of the natural rights of every man and woman in the United States, and a clear …
Peter Martin Jaworski (Georgetown University) has posted Originalism All the Way Down: Or, the Explosion of Progressivism (Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Forthcoming) on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
At least on its face the very same problems …
Politics is the Mind Killer. This is the title of one of my favorite posts on the web. In this post, Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about how people seem to be so irrational when it comes to politics. In two …
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