Abstract On the day he was sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump issued pardons and commutations to all of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This sweeping act of clemency gave legal effect to a...
Abstract Constitutional law is the lodestar for law teaching in the United States and is often referred to as the supreme law of the land. But how are this and related bodies of law to be taught? And what should law students learn when ideological...
Abstract The Fourteenth Amendment’s equality and liberty clauses have been subjected to more judicial review, and opining, than most others. In this still-ongoing interpretative process, successive generations of (mostly) white male federal judges...
Abstract Law professors, particularly those who teach Property or Constitutional Law in the United States, should center public accommodation law in our pedagogy. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 600 U.S. 570 (2023), the Supreme Court has provided new...
Abstract A recent shift in the constitution of the personnel on the U.S. Supreme Court has resulted in a “supermajority” of conservative justices that have significantly shifted key constitutional doctrines in a manner not seen in recent history...
Abstract Teaching constitutional law today has been impacted by two trends reflecting a polarized electorate and politics: first, recent restrictions targeting education prohibiting the use of critical race theory, critical legal theory, feminist...
