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 merits and pitfalls of originalist interpretation of the US Constitution were the focus at the November 19 installment of ...

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 ...

The following welcome message was shared with incoming students in Robert P. George’s Fall 2025 Constitutional Interpretation course at Princeton University. Dear Enrollees in Politics 315: ...

American law has not historically been good to women, and whatever progress there once was is now vulnerable to regression. This return is being midwifed into the world by the theory of constitutional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

History professor Jonathan Gienapp criticized constitutional originalism for its insufficient understanding of the period in which the Constitution was written at his Tuesday talk, titled “History and ...

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 ...

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 ...