The duty of good faith and fair dealing is so important to commercial life that it is deemed an implied term in commercial agreements. Is something similar essential to the practice of constitutional ...

'Radwan v. Manuel' involves a rich legal playbook—First Amendment, Due Process, qualified immunity and sex discrimination—but leaves us in First Amendment stasis and a familiar qualified immunity ...

But none of this is true. To begin with, the dominant view among the Founders was that slavery was absolutely not “fine.” The prevailing view was that slavery violated natural law and was doomed to ...

Launched in May 2025 by the College of Liberal Arts, under the leadership of Dean Casilde Isabelli and Executive Director Rick Trachok, the Center promotes interdisciplinary research and dialogue on ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at the age of 79, adhered to a philosophy of loyalty to the original meaning and intention of the Constitution. Jeffrey Brown discusses Scalia’s ...

In recent years, allegiance to the constitutional theory known as originalism has become all but mandatory for American legal conservatives. Every justice and almost every judge nominated by recent ...

Condemning an entire faith and singling out its followers for disfavored and unequal treatment by the government violates the Constitution, it turns out. That principle might seem obvious to anyone ...

Law school deans from over 100 higher learning institutions across the country signed a letter calling on students to disagree with people respectfully, while upholding the rule of law and championing ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism ...

The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. This piece originally appeared in The New York Review of Books. We ...

With an estimated 500 million followers worldwide, Buddhism has had a far-reaching impact on constitutional design and reform in many countries. Yet, the relationship between the religion and this ...

The study of the Constitution is, for many, one of the most fascinating parts of law school. Understanding the Constitution and the debates that surround its interpretation is central to a wide range ...