My 2014 William Brennan lecture on NFIB v. Sebelius and its implications for the ongoing debate over constitutional federalism is now available on SSRN. As I noted in the lecture itself, Justice ...

A crowd of about 200 people waited for more than an hour and a half to hear actor, former presidential candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson lecture on the current state of American politics at ...

Nelson Rockefeller describes the three Godkin lectures on “The Future of Federalism” that he delivered at Harvard University last February as “the fitting together, into a theme, of the pieces of ...

The Implosion of American Federalism by Robert F. Nagel Oxford University Press, 209 pp., $35 THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, like other wars before it, will enhance respect for the national government and ...

Abstract: The nationalized health care system pushed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats has been signed into law. Policymakers and private citizens across the country are rebelling ...

In a significant lecture on “Constitutionalism beyond rights: Why structure matters” at Chanakya National Law University, Supreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna issued a powerful reminder to the Centre: ...

My recent Washington Post article on growing liberal support for federalism generated considerable interest. In this follow-up, I am going to further explore two possible reasons why liberal interest ...

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has given Americans yet another jarring reminder that these United States are deeply divided. Though Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was not decided on ...

The war against terrorism, like other wars before it, will enhance respect for the national government and increase its growth. That prediction, and the corollary prediction of federalism’s demise, ...