Unjust laws are not laws—they are simply mandates. This type of mandate fundamentally contradicts the basis of our modem legal system: the U.S. and state constitutions, federal and state statutes, and ...

Some critics of originalism fault it on natural-law grounds. Their critiques are wanting. Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the ...

On September 1, a group of prominent legal scholars joined AEI’s J. Joel Alicea to discuss one of the most timely—and divisive—debates in the conservative legal community: What is the relationship ...

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It is apparent that Trump himself never so much as glanced at this nation’s defining document. The only more worrisome and lamentable fact is that tens of millions of Americans found this president’s ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will receive enough votes in the Senate today to join the Supreme Court as the first African-American woman Justice. Jackson is qualified by any traditional ...

Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...