Everybody I follow on Twitter is complaining about the system of student-run law reviews again. I think I stand by everything I wrote in In Defense of Law Reviews eight years ago, but I thought I would add a few thoughts. The law review system has many benefits that we shouldn’t take for granted (speed! […]
I have a short article out in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, on the Constitution and choice of law. There’s no abstract, but here’s how it begins: What does the Constitution have to say about interstate relations? Well, it depends on how you ask. One of the main topics in interstate relations […]
NPR has this story (quoting Jonathan Adler among others) about the choices faced by President Biden’s solicitor general’s office. When should they withdraw briefs filed by the previous administration and replace them with a new position? As Katyal observes, the Bush administration had largely followed the tradition of defending laws enacted by Congress, even laws […]
