May 30 and 31, 2025 CLC workshop: Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields. This is the second of a three-part series on Teaching Constitutional Law in a ...

'Radwan v. Manuel' involves a rich legal playbook—First Amendment, Due Process, qualified immunity and sex discrimination—but leaves us in First Amendment stasis and a familiar qualified immunity ...

The study of the Constitution is, for many, one of the most fascinating parts of law school. Understanding the Constitution and the debates that surround its interpretation is central to a wide range ...

Constitution Day is a good time to consider the issue of whether we have been overly accepting of some horrendous Supreme Court precedents. The Chinese Exclusion Case of 1889 is a great example. Most ...

The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. This piece originally appeared in The New York Review of Books. We ...

Law school deans from over 100 higher learning institutions across the country signed a letter calling on students to disagree with people respectfully, while upholding the rule of law and championing ...

Here's why: Many Democrats are asking Americans to consider the consequences of losing access to abortion after the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that showed the court is poised ...

Both the liberals who advocate court-packing and the conservatives who advocate living common goodism have succumbed to the false notion that the nation should depend on the judiciary to resolve our ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky co-launched “We Hold These Truths,” a project focused on public education of basic constitutional principles. Established July 4, the project was ...

Launched in May 2025 by the College of Liberal Arts, under the leadership of Dean Casilde Isabelli and Executive Director Rick Trachok, the Center promotes interdisciplinary research and dialogue on ...