Sandy Levinson and I have uploaded a draft of our latest essay, Casebooks, Canons, and Constitutional Memory, to SSRN. Here is the abstract: Why edit a constitutional law

casebook? One might want to shape how professors teach the subject and how students learn it. [...]

I have a new paper that considers the problem of essences in the law. It uses the concepts of "person" and "religion" to make a case that legal essences are crucial if the

law is to cohere. But it is not so easy to come up with such essences today, in part because of what the paper calls "the downward spiral of inessential legal concepts." [...]

Documenting Activism, Creating Change: Archaeology and the Legacy of #MeToo Edited by Hannah Cobb, Kayt Hawkins    A powerful wave of feminist, intersectional, anti-harassment,

anti-discrimination activism has swept archaeology and heritage since at least 2010, and unlike any other time in archaeology’s short history, much of this has [...]

Herodian: Historiography and Literature at the End of the High Empire Edited by: Mario Baumann ,

Adam M. Kemezis and Maria-Eirini Zacharioudaki [...]

Samuel D. Brunson (Loyola-Chicago; Google Scholar), A New Johnson Amendment: Subsidy, Core Political Speech, and Tax-Exempt Organizations 43 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 354 (2025):

Seven decades ago, Congress enacted the so-called Johnson Amendment. This provision of tax law forbids tax-exempt public charities from endorsing or opposing candidates [...]

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  This year, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable begins its 24th successful year. BC Law's legal history group–Mary

Sarah Bilder, Felipe Cole, Daniel Farbman, Aziz Rana, Adnan Zulfiqar, Marco Basile, Daniel R. [...]