Introduction Law students begin to encounter the concept of a "standard of review" early in the first year. That's not surprising. First-year law students read appellate cases, and every appellate ...

The Download of the Week is Interim Orders, the Presidency, and Judicial Supremacy by Jack Landman Goldsmith. Here is the abstract: This essay analyzes the eighteen interim orders concerning Trump ...

Jonathan Crowe (University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice) has posted The Idea of Small Justice on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Talk about social or distributive justice, at least ...

Nicholas Aroney (The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law; Emory University - Center for the Study of Law and Religion) has posted In Two Natures, without Confusion, without Change, ...

J. Benton Heath (Temple University Beasley School of Law) has posted Constructing a Global Panopticon: Toward a Jurisprudence of Weaponized Interdependence (Journal of International Economic Law ...

Keith E. Whittington (Yale University - Law School; Princeton University - Department of Political Science) has posted Judicial Independence As A Constitutional Construction on SSRN. Here is the ...

Trace Maddox (NYU Law) has posted Ghosts of Confession Law Past, Present, and future on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Modern American confession law is a ghost of its former self. Under current Due ...

Sam Spiegelman (Pacific Legal Foundation) has posted BLIGHT MADE RIGHT: DEFECTS IN STATE CONDEMNATION LAWS AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM IN ALASKA AND BEYOND (40 Alaska L. Rev. 341 (2024)) on SSRN. Here is ...

Christian Edmonds (Regent University - School of Law) has posted Supplication and Separation: The Establishment Clause After Kennedy (94 George Washington Law Review Arguendo 21 (2025)) on SSRN. Here ...

Michael S. Paulsen (The University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)) has posted Religion, Equality, and the Constitution: An Equal Protection Approach to Establishment Clause Adjudication* (The Notre Dame ...

Christopher C. Lund (Wayne State University Law School) has posted Favoritism, Coercion, and the Establishment Clause (Michigan Law Review, Vol. 122, p. 1303, 2025 (book review)) on SSRN. Her is the ...

Michael S. Paulsen (The University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)) has posted Medium Rare Scrutiny (Constitutional Commentary, Vol.15(3), p.397) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Paulsen discusses why he is ...