In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the
Supreme Court's constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language …

This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential
power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory--that the Constitution gives the …

In confronting important constitutional issues, state courts face a range of interpretive
questions, many unanswered by the texts of state constitutions. Where a constitutional text …

To what extent does the executive branch have autonomous powers of legal interpretation?
The issue is often broadly framed in terms of two disparate understandings of the allocation …

Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in
the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining …

With a few exceptions, the Solicitor General controls all aspects of independent agency
litigation before the Supreme Court. Solicitor General control of Supreme Court litigation …

This article explores, from a feminist perspective, the questions of difference, equality, and
sexual identity raised in discrimination claims by lesbians and gay men. Following the …

In Federalist 51, James Madison offered what has become the canonical account of how the
separation of powers would pit branch against branch for the greater good. The officials of …

This Article analyzes the intersection of state constitutional law with federal equal protection,
revealing how federal equal protection, by relying on state constitutional education …

The 1980s bore witness to a dramatic upsurge in interest in the proper roles of the President
and Congress in controlling the execution of the law. Much of the initial scholarship focused …