Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to
erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald …

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frames have emerged for adjudicating conflicts over rights. Under the first frame, rights are …

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Once upon a time, roughly in the middle of the twentieth century, Carolene Products's
famous footnote captured much of the Supreme Court's constitutional decision making. 3 …

Twenty-first-century constitutions now typically include a new'fourth branch'of government, a
group of institutions charged with protecting constitutional democracy, including electoral …

This Feature was delivered originally as the 2013-14 Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture at Yale
Law School. AUTH Or. Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law. I …

Law has much to say about the practice of legislative representation. Legal rules from
different substantive domains collectively determine the landscape in which legislators act …

Something important is missing from the prevailing judicial and aca-demic accounts of many
election law issues. Consider the spate of fran-chise restrictions that states around the …

Retirement with dignity was denied to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 19651 (VRA). If
ever a statute rose to iconic status, a superstatute amid a world of ordinary legislation, 2 it …

A week into the 2010 trial over California's Proposition 8 (which banned same-sex marriage
in the state), political scientist Gary Segura took the stand for the plaintiffs.'For the next two …