For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026). Madhav Khosla In contemporary
politics, what we now routinely think of as a crisis of democracy has proceeded alongside a certain crisis of constitutionalism. [...]
Twenty-six years after Minas Gerais enacted a law creating a Human Rights Memorial in the building that housed the state’s Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS),
a political police body central to dictatorship-era repression, the site has still not been officially converted into the memorial the law envisaged. [...]
Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College, Dublin, Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois, and Philip Stern, Duke University, have posted Anglicization of and through Law: British North
America, Ireland, and India Compared, 1540-1800, which also appears in Journal of Modern History 98 (2026): 539-77. [...]
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President Trump yesterday said he did not regret going to war against Iran. Trump said that if he had to do it again, “I would do exactly as I did,” and rejected [...]
Watch the Episode: Co-hosts Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman are joined by Daniel Fried and Nicholas Rasmussen to discuss how 9/11 and the United States’ responses to it continue
to shape U.S. counterterrorism and foreign policy a quarter century later. [...]
Der nordrhein-westfälische Landtag beschloss am 15. Juli 2026 das Hochschulstärkungsgesetz. Mit ihm kommt jener seit Ende 2024 erbittert umstrittene Teil 10 in das Hochschulgesetz,
der Machtmissbrauch und wissenschaftlicher Unredlichkeit mit den Mitteln des Rechts begegnen soll. [...]