Recently, the Fourth Annual Originalism Works in Progress Conference was held at the University of San Diego Law School. And now the video proceedings of the seven papers are available. The papers given at the conference, which involved various …
At oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, Justice Scalia challenged Theodore Olson as to when it became “unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?”[1] Olson replied first with what he called a “rhetorical question,” viz., “When did it …
We now have a view of the new gun control proposal that some have labeled Diane Feinstein’s Grand Plan. Grand? Feasible? Passible? That remains to be seen. What is plain and predictable is that Feinstein’s proposal illustrates the structural …
In the next Liberty Law Talk I discuss with David Bernstein of the George Mason University School of Law his excellent work of constitutional history Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. The Lochner decision, of course, is …
In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, I talk with Clint Bolick, Director of the Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, about his new book Death Grip: Loosening the Law’s Stranglehold over Economic Liberty. Bolick, of course, …
Elizabeth Price Foley’s study of the constitutional basis for the Tea Party’s opposition to the Obama administration is an eye opener, particularly for those who have been listening to the mainstream media and national press. One comes away from her …
George Thomas, Keith Whittington, and Ted McAllister evaluate David Bernstein’s important new book Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform.
George Thomas
When the Legend becomes Fact…
The late William Stuntz’s The Collapse of American Criminal Justice explanatorily and thematically links a wide range of issues concerning criminal justice, including the unplanned influences of the Warren Court, prosecutorial discretion, jury selection, and plea-bargaining, among other matters.
Once again I appreciate Michael Ramsey’s thoughtful comments as he extends the discussion of natural law and the Constitution. We will have the chance to move even further into this discussion when he joins us, in March in Washington, in …
Professor Ramsey has posted the following response on the Originalism blog to Hadley Arkes’ earlier reply to Ramsey’s review of Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths. Liberty Law Blog thought it would be of further interest to post this interesting …
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