There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

As the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war. A central insight of Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind is that these two crises were forged from the same fire, and may need to be resolved together.

The old school year is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of movies.

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don’t believe everything you hear in Chicago.

The United States’ turn toward naked coercion and transactional deal-making represents both a genuine departure from its commitment to the liberal international legal order and the culmination of that order’s internal contradictions.

Amna Akbar interviews Joe Soss and Joshua Page about how the criminal legal system extracts resources from the nation’s most oppressed communities and converts them into public and private revenues.