Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...
This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2023/24 issue of The Independent Review. In his book Law’s Empire (1998, Oxford: Hart Publishing), Ronald Dworkin touted the mythical Judge Hercules ...
What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we understand America’s founding? Jonathan Gienapp, a historian at Stanford, has written such a book in “Against ...
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment In his new book Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale University Press, 2024), ...
This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2025 issue of The Independent Review. In Against Constitutional Originalism, Jonathan Gienapp argues that the Constitution as ratified had no fixed ...
Constitution Day might lack the fireworks and fanfare of its July 4 holiday sibling, but given its focus on educating the American people about the central legal document that has governed the country ...
The Case for Constitutional Transformation, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland Professor Claire Charters argues New Zealand's constitution fails to protec ...
Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.
The Trump presidency has significantly undermined respect for the U.S. Constitution, with Trump and his supporters dismissing its authority and portraying it as malleable for political ends. His ...
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