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Over the past few decades, commercial arbitration—including private international arbitration—has steadily increased as a means of dispute resolution.

Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California made headlines in May of 2020 with his decision to reject a plea agreement in United States v. Osorto (2020).

Although Congress has so far declined to enact any immunity protection specifically targeted at COVID-19 claims, that has not stopped the Executive Branch from responding to the pandemic with immunity measures.

Our new book—How Constitutional Rights Matter—tries to answer a difficult empirical question: do constitutional rights actually change government behavior? We theorize that constitutional rights that protect individuals often fail to constrain governments, but that constitutional rights that protect organizations can be powerful tools to push back against repression.

Comparative constitutional law (CCL) is a diverse field employing multiple different methods.

Aright to legal representation has recently been introduced in some Chinese provinces but not in others.

Some constitutions promise paradise on earth. It is, therefore, not surprising that in many countries constitutional reality does not keep pace with constitutional promise.

Ensuring compliance with laws that constrain the state is one of public law’s central challenges.

I recall vividly a flight that I took about ten years ago.  As my wife and I boarded the plane, the pilot greeted us at the threshold—a nice touch.  I couldn’t help but notice his necktie, and maybe that was the point.  It was emblazoned with “Second Amendme

Professors Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg’s How Constitutional Rights Matter is simply a game changer.

Chilton and Versteeg tell an interesting story. I use the word “story” deliberately, to locate the genre of the work in narrative—in their terms, qualitative—analysis, rather than in the scientistic genre.

The Supreme Court’s changing composition and, relatedly, its increasing skepticism for the current structure and pervasiveness of the administrative state have given rise to increased constitutional challenges to agency actions that seem increasingly likely to be successful.