David A. Strauss

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Non-Judicial Precedent and the Removal Power
David A. Strauss
David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

The majority and dissenting opinions in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau disagreed about the interpretation of previous Supreme Court decisions that considered the president’s power to remove executive branch officials. But in many ways the more important disagreement was about historical practice.

Conservatism Edmund Burke Precedent Separation of Powers
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The Modernizing Mission of Judicial Review
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School

I am grateful to participants in workshops at the Harvard, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, and University of Chicago Law Schools, and to Mary Anne Case, Barry Cushman, Elizabeth Emens, Richard Fallon, Barry Friedman, Don Herzog, Christine Jolls, Michael Klarman, Jacob Levy, Eric Posner, Richard Primus, Adam Samaha, Kirsten Smolensky, Geoffrey Stone, Cass Sunstein, John Sylla, and Adrian Vermeule for comments on earlier versions of this Article. I also thank Mark Sherman and Karen Courtheoux for excellent research assistance and the Sonnenschein Faculty Fund at The University of Chicago Law School for financial support.

Constitutional Law Judicial Decision-Making Statutory Interpretation
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In Memoriam: Abner J. Mikva (1926–2016)
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

I first heard of Abner Mikva when I was a college student on the East Coast.

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