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2 months ago | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government | There have been a lot of posts recently about the Department of Justice's treatment of the Eric Adams prosecution.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government | Professor Robert Leider, who writes in both constitutional law and criminal law, passed along these comments on the Supreme Court's recent oral argument in an excessive force case and I thought readers might be interested in them: For scholars of both criminal law and federal courts, the Supreme Court's oral argument yesterday in Barnes v. Felix will be noteworthy. The Supreme Court appears dangerously close to sleepwalking into a major revision of police self-defense law....
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government My latest article with Michael Stokes Paulsen is in print | Just in time for the inauguration today of Donald J. Trump, my second article with Michael Stokes Paulsen is now published in final form in the Harvard Law Review -- Sweeping Section Three Under the Rug: A Comment on Trump v. Anderson.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government Dan Epps and I discuss Royal Canin v. Wullschleger and TikTok v.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James G. Basker |Lucas Morel |Jr. Professor |David Schaefer
Omission of the political opinions and literary creations of black Americans during the Founding era has produced an incomplete history of the birth and growth of the American republic that has distorted Americans’ self-understanding of who they are as a diverse but whole people.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government reflections on that Twitter dust-up | I: The Object-Level Scholarly Debate One of the oldest questions of constitutional law is whether, and to what extent, the President has the power to remove other executive branch officials; as well as whether, and to what extent, Congress has the power to regulate or restrict any such power. It dates back to congressional debates in 1789, the impeachment debates of Andrew Johnson, and Supreme Court cases from Myers v. United States, to...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Graham McAleer |Jr. Professor
Is conservatism a disposition or a political philosophy? The brilliant mid-twentieth-century English political philosopher Michael Oakeshott thought it was the former: a disposition to accept the world as one finds it and to enjoy its varieties and its vagaries, casting a skeptical eye upon political programs of wholesale reform and rebuking ideologically driven utopian projects. Graham James McAleer and Alexander S.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Law & Government | I share co-blogger Sam's misgivings about Josh's post assessing the courage of the justices, which I think demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of judicial psychology. There's a difference between lacking courage, and just not agreeing with your colleagues (or your blog critics) about the right thing to do.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Politics | A few years ago, the graduate students at the University of Chicago, where I teach, formed a legally recognized labor union. Last year, that union expanded to include the law school, at least to the extent that law students engage in paid work such as providing research assistance.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
reason.com | Will Baude |Jr. Professor
Dan Epps and I discuss Loper Bright and Corner Post on the latest episode of Divided Argument | In the most recent episode of Divided Argument, "Evil Batman," Dan Epps and I talk about the Court's two big non-constitutional administrative law cases from this term: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimundo (overruling Chevron deference), and Corner Post v.
