Federal courts have long employed substantive canons of construction to interpret federal
statutes. Some substantive canons express a rule of thumb for choosing between equally …

This Article argues, contrary to conventional accounts, that the animating purpose of the
American Constitution was to facilitate the admission of the new nation into the European …

This book describes the development of international human rights law. The main difference
today is that individuals receive protection as individuals independent from their affiliation …

Treaties are negotiated, usually written down, and often subject to cumbersome domestic
ratification processes. Nonetheless, nations often have the right to withdraw unilaterally from …

The Constitution is often said to leave important questions unanswered. These include, for
example, the existence of a congressional contempt power or an executive removal power …

Although courts and commentators have offered a wide range of theories regarding the
Alien Tort Statute'(ATS), the original meaning of the statute has remained elusive. As …

Whatever its status in the statutory interpretation" wars," originalismdriven textualism has
assumed an increasingly prominent role in constitutional interpretation, at least within the …

In 1867, Senator Charles Sumner famously likened the Article IV Guarantee Clause to" a
sleeping giant in the Constitution." 1 Nearly a century and a half later, and despite persistent …

Ask someone to identify the principal growth industries in America, and you are likely to hear
responses such as software development, cybersecurity, the home health care industry …

Courts and commentators have long struggled to reconcile prominent federalism doctrines
with the text of the Constitution. These doctrines include state sovereign immunity, the …