Outside of law school classrooms, the liberal constitutional agenda is failing. Enter the American Constitution Society.

The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law brought together legal scholars and practitioners on October 25, 2024, to explore constitutional interpretation in ...

A minor kerfuffle recently erupted in the world of academic constitutional theory over whether two ideas might be connected. The first is originalism: the idea that interpretation should recover the ...

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America. Ponnuru might be right about conservatives’ rhetorical success, ...

Breyer argues that not only were these decisions wrong in outcome — they went wrong in how they read the Constitution. In critiquing “textualism,” Breyer means the majority’s belief that a careful ...

Most discussions of constitutional interpretation focus on the interpretation of the federal constitution. But (as Judge Jeffrey Sutton likes to remind us) there are actually 51 constitutions in the ...

I recently read Judge Jeffrey Sutton's excellent new book, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. As readers may know, the book argues for a rejuvenation of ...

The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory: Why We Need the Framers, by Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University Press, 248 pp., $32) Donald L. Drakeman’s 2020 book, The Hollow Core of Constitutional ...

President Joe Biden apparently believes the U.S. Constitution that he swore to uphold and defend is different today than when he was sworn into office. In his mind, the Constitution isn’t the ...

Georgetown Center for the Constitution adjunct professor and Director Randy Barnett, along with adjunct professor Lawrence Solum, will host a weeklong seminar, “Originalism Boot Camp,” at the ...