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Mike Rappaport

857 book reviews , articles , forums & podcasts by Mike Rappaport.
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Essay

The House Intel Memo

The House Intel Memo ignores more scandal than it proves, and it reveals only a small part of the investigative misconduct at play surrounding the election.

Essay

Introducing Myself

As an academic, I have worked in various fields, but my dominant passion has been the libertarian pursuit of free markets and freedom under the law. In recent years, I have focused mainly on constitutional originalism. At the University of San Diego, I am the Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and have a book coming out next year from Harvard, Originalism and the Good Constitution (co-authored with John McGinnis), which presents a new defense of originalism.

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Forum

The Failure of the Constitutional Amendment Process to Protect Federalism: A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan

The national convention method for proposing and ratifying amendments has never been used to amend the Constitution. Its reliance on two-thirds of state legislatures to apply for a national convention to consider a particular amendment has led to an almost universal fear of a runaway convention that would propose wholesale revisions to the Constitution. In this opening installment of the Liberty Forum, Michael Rappaport engages these considerations and urges a rehabilitation of the national convention model.

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 coauthored with John McGinnis, was 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).