Constitutional Law
Feature
How Freed Slaves Extended the Reach of Federal Courts and Expanded our Understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightIn 1870, Maria Mitchell, an African American woman in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, did something that she could not have done when she was enslaved: She “talked for her rights.” […]
Feature, The Storied Third Branch
Excerpts from Unexampled Courage
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Sergeant Isaac Woodard had just completed a three-year tour in a segregated unit of the United States Army. He boarded a Greyhound bus in Augusta, Ga., that would take him […]
Point/Counterpoint
One for all: Are nationwide injunctions legal?
by Amanda Frost and Samuel Bray
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsNationwide injunctions have been much in the headlines in recent years. Since 2008, lower federal courts have issued dozens of injunctions to block government policies from being enforced not just […]
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How Lockhart Should Have Been Decided (Canons Are Not the Key)
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?That is an altogether presumptuous title, written with a smile. The case is Lockhart v. United States, 136 s. Ct. 958 (2016). It’s fascinating for the debate over conflicting canons […]