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On Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin's title is also his thesis: that a society committed to rights must take them seriously, which means treating them as genuine constraints on what government may do even...
On Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin's title is also his thesis: that a society committed to rights must take them seriously, which means treating them as genuine constraints on what government may do even...
On The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law, published in 1961, is the most important work of legal philosophy of the twentieth century, the book that set the terms for...
On The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law, published in 1961, is the most important work of legal philosophy of the twentieth century, the book that set the terms for...
On America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar set out to do something surprisingly rare: to explain the Constitution clause by clause, in plain language, telling the story of where each provision came from and...
On America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar set out to do something surprisingly rare: to explain the Constitution clause by clause, in plain language, telling the story of where each provision came from and...
On The Broken Constitution
Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution, published in 2021, tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to save the country, and in doing so remade what...
On The Broken Constitution
Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution, published in 2021, tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to save the country, and in doing so remade what...
On Brown v. Board of Education, the Opinion
Some documents are short because they are meant to be read by everyone, and the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
On Brown v. Board of Education, the Opinion
Some documents are short because they are meant to be read by everyone, and the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
On The Pentagon Papers and New York Times v. Un...
In 1971 the United States government tried to stop newspapers from publishing a secret history of the Vietnam War, and the Supreme Court told it that it could not.
On The Pentagon Papers and New York Times v. Un...
In 1971 the United States government tried to stop newspapers from publishing a secret history of the Vietnam War, and the Supreme Court told it that it could not.