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June 24, 2013
Robert Knowles, Rachel E. VanLandingham
Affirmative, Sir! (And Ma'am!)
The U.S. military needs affirmative action now more than ever
June 13, 2013
Jeff Guo
The Supreme Court Reveals its Ignorance of Genetics
June 12, 2013
Adam Winkler
Bathrooms Are Not Separate-But-Equal
A Maine court case signals the next frontier of civil rights: transgender equality.
June 10, 2013
Robert Chesney, Benjamin Wittes
A Tale of Two NSA Leaks
One is unsurprising, and damaging. The other is worth debating.
June 10, 2013
John B. Judis
The Constitutional Amnesia of the NSA Snooping Scandal
I've seen this all before—and have an FBI file to show for it
June 6, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Show Me the Memo
Obama should share his legal justification for collecting Verizon's phone records
June 4, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
A Damning Dissent: Scalia's Smartest, Wittiest Ruling of All Time
Justice Antonin Scalia was at his finest in criticizing the Court over its approval of DNA swabs
June 3, 2013
Tim Wu
The Right to Evade Regulation
How corporations hijacked the First Amendment
May 1, 2013
Jack Goldsmith
How Obama Undermined the War on Terror
The President promised not to undercut the rule of law for expedience's sake. He did. Now we face the consequences.
April 22, 2013
Nate Cohn
The White House Was Wise Not to Declare Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an Enemy Combatant
April 10, 2013
Cass R. Sunstein
Moneyball for Judges
The statistics of judicial behavior
April 2, 2013
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Spy vs. Soldier
The CIA may lose a power it never legally had
March 29, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Flip-Flopping Federalists
On Obamacare, conservative judges were glad to limit Congress' power. To uphold DOMA, they'll need to do the opposite.
March 26, 2013
David Fontana
No, a Sweeping Gay Marriage Ruling Won't Trigger a Backlash
March 7, 2013
Adam Winkler
Is the Filibuster Unconstitutional?
The Founding Fathers might not approve of today's Senate
March 3, 2013
David A. Bell
Is War Civilized?
The Evolution of the Battlefield
February 27, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Does the Government Deserve Your DNA?
The crucial privacy case before the Supreme Court
February 18, 2013
Charles Fried
Remembering Ronald Dworkin
November 20, 2012
David Fontana
Law School Confidential—How to Fix Legal Education
October 10, 2012
Richard D.Kahlenberg
Race to the Flop—The Problem with Affirmative Action

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