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  • 9 Oct 2025
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    Deepa Das Acevedo

    The What, Why, and Whither of Faculty Tenure

    In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]

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  • 12 May 2025
    Hannah Haksgaard

    A Perspective from Rural America: Lawyers and the Viability of Rural Law Practice

    Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors, and—the subject of this book—lawyers. The worsening rural lawyer shortage is not new. What is new is the idea that we should do something to solve the crisis. […]

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  • 2 Jan 2025
    Zachary S. Price

    Constitutional Symmetry:  Judging in a Divided Republic

    The United States is divided over politics, and each major political coalition advances a distinct constitutional vision that aligns with its policy goals. Conservatives interpret the Constitution to protect religion, limit gun control, and obstruct federal administrative governance while allowing state-level regulation of moral questions like abortion. Progressives see a mirror-image constitution that advances social […]

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  • 6 May 2024
    Joseph P. Tomain, Sidney A. Shapiro

    The Necessary Mix

    Market favoritism has been aggressively supported for more than 50 years by the Right and adopted by many on the Left. The emphasis has been on the priority of markets over government for solution to policy problems and for enhancing political liberties. Our book, How Government Built America, flips the script by arguing the strength […]

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  • 4 Dec 2023
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    The Flawed Foundations of the Electoral College

    Central to our concept of democracy is counting all votes equally. Who would support an election rule in which we add up all the votes and declare the person who came in second the winner?  But that is exactly what can—and does—occur under the electoral college.  In 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016, and, arguably, 1960, the […]

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  • 24 Aug 2023
    Jacob Eisler

    Balancing Justice and Autonomy in Democratic Design

    As democracy across the globe faces new stresses and dramatic challenges, the power of the judiciary to reshape electoral procedure is increasingly important. Yet underlying any judicial intervention – for good or for ill – in how people rule themselves is a threshold question: why does the judiciary have authority over the essence of democracy […]

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  • 5 Apr 2023
    Wendy E. Parmet

    How Courts Make Us Sick

    More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]

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  • 27 Feb 2023
    Kaitlin Sidorsky, Wendy J. Schiller

    Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail to Keep Women Safe

    Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child abuse two years before that. Less than a month later, Linda Robinson and her son Sebastian were murdered by […]

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