Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale University Law School, has published Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and Original Meaning: Congress’s Delegation of Power to Lay Embargoes in 1794 at 172 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1803 (2024). Here is the abstract.
Originalist proponents of a tougher nondelegation doctrine confront the many broad delegations that Congress enacted in the 1790s…
Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, has published The Law is Weirder than AI. Here is the abstract.
Between artificial intelligence threatening to take our jobs and destroy the world while adopting the aesthetic of the weird and a presidential election that will be partially determined by how people feel about being…
Pranoto Iskandar, McGill University, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism; The Institute for Migrant Rights, has published The Constitutional Significance of State Symbols. Here is the abstract.
Not every constitution entrenches state symbols, but many do and their rationale can only be understood implicitly. These state symbols constitutionally significant. Some constitutions contain provisions…
Joshua Galperin, Pace University School of Law, is publishing Museum of Joy, in a volume to be published by the Environmental Law Institute (2025). Here is the abstract.
This document is a work of short fiction, which will appear in an edited volume of scholarship on the subject “consumption and the good life in…
Christoffer Cappelen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, has published No Centralization Without Population: The Black Death and State Formation in Europe. Here is the abstract.
When and where do states expand their territorial reach? In this paper, I address this question by studying the impact of the Black Death on local state-building. I…
Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science, and Sabrina Peng, Duke University School of Law, have published 2. US Supreme Court decision making in Intellectual Property rights (1954-2022). Here is the abstract.
We analyze U.S. Supreme Court decision making in the complex area of intellectual property (IP) to determine…
Zoryana Herman and Fabijan Prosenečki, both of the University of Gothenberg, have published Dads Over Lovers: Why Do Western Games Favour Parental Relationships Over Romantic Ones, Unlike Other Forms of Art? Here is the abstract.
Romantic relationships have long been central to various art forms. However, in recent years, Western video games have shifted toward…
Kellen Funk, Columbia University Law School, is publishing Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification in the American Journal of Legal History (2024). Here is the abstract.
Elite lawyers who debated codification in the nineteenth-century United States treated codification as inseparable from a liberal Protestant textualism that had taken hold in the early…
William Aceves, California Western School of Law, is publishing Critical Constitutional Law and the Alito Palimpsest in volume 27 of the University of Pennsylvana Journal of Constitutional Law (2025). Here is the abstract.
This article uses an innovative metaphor—the palimpsest—and a provocative philosophical tradition—genealogy—to generate a new theory of critical constitutional law. It is a…
Joshua Braver, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Gregory Elinson, Northern Illinois University College of Law, are publishing A Progressive Judiciary? Judicial Review and National Politics from Reconstruction to the Present in the Uniersity of Arizona Law Review. Here is the abstract.
Within legal academia, the conventional historical narrative is that the Supreme Court has…
