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Academic highlight: Lawyers with more experience obtain better outcomes
Michael J. Nelson is Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in Political Science at Penn State University. Lee Epstein is Ethan A.H. Shepley...
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Academic highlight: The rise of the “hot bench”: what it means for the...
Terry Skolnik is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottowa, Faculty of Law. Beginning in the mid 1990s, the dynamics of Supreme Court hearings started to change significantly. Many of these...
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Academic highlight: Sherry on the “Kardashian Court”
Against all odds, a surprising number of Supreme Court justices have morphed into celebrities over the last decade. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has led the way: She is currently the subject of a...
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Academic highlight: Sohoni on the “lost history” of nationwide injunctions
In his concurrence in the 2018 Supreme Court decision upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Trump v. Hawaii, Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the courts below for issuing injunctions that...
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Academic highlight: Sachs responds to “How to Save the Supreme Court”
In their article “How to Save the Supreme Court,” Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman argue that the Supreme Court faces a legitimacy crisis requiring it to either “radically change—or die.” They outline...
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Academic highlight: The “Odd Party Out” theory of certiorari
Adam Bonica is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Adam Chilton is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Maya Sen is a professor at the...
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Academic highlight: Oldfather on the “Inconspicuous DHS” and celebrity...
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush made the surprising choice to nominate the enigmatic David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. As Professor Chad Oldfather explains in a new article, “The...
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Academic highlight: The past, present and future of court packing
Once considered taboo, court packing is now a topic at presidential debates, the subject of numerous op-eds and a trending hashtag on Twitter. Proponents of expanding the Supreme Court point out that...
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“Tenth justice” or “third advocate”?: Examining the solicitor general’s...
Does the solicitor general’s office have too much influence over the Supreme Court? In “The Loudest Voice at the Supreme Court: The Solicitor General’s Dominance of Amicus Oral Argument,” a recent...
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In major immigration case, both sides look to academia to untangle three...
Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? Do states have standing to challenge these guidelines? And if the guidelines are unlawful, does...
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