The following welcome message was shared with incoming students in Robert P. George’s Fall 2025 Constitutional Interpretation course at Princeton University. Dear Enrollees in Politics 315: ...

The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law brought together legal scholars and practitioners on October 25, 2024, to explore constitutional interpretation in ...

In America, facts are no longer the shared starting point of analysis but instead the primary site of contestation.

I recently read Judge Jeffrey Sutton's excellent new book, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. As readers may know, the book argues for a rejuvenation of ...

American law has not historically been good to women, and whatever progress there once was is now vulnerable to regression. This return is being midwifed into the world by the theory of constitutional ...

Georgetown Center for the Constitution adjunct professor and Director Randy Barnett, along with adjunct professor Lawrence Solum, will host a weeklong seminar, “Originalism Boot Camp,” at the ...

Breyer argues that not only were these decisions wrong in outcome — they went wrong in how they read the Constitution. In critiquing “textualism,” Breyer means the majority’s belief that a careful ...

A minor kerfuffle recently erupted in the world of academic constitutional theory over whether two ideas might be connected. The first is originalism: the idea that interpretation should recover the ...

History professor Jonathan Gienapp criticized constitutional originalism for its insufficient understanding of the period in which the Constitution was written at his Tuesday talk, titled “History and ...

The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory: Why We Need the Framers, by Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University Press, 248 pp., $32) Donald L. Drakeman’s 2020 book, The Hollow Core of Constitutional ...

President Joe Biden apparently believes the U.S. Constitution that he swore to uphold and defend is different today than when he was sworn into office. In his mind, the Constitution isn’t the ...