TANIA GARCIA-SOLIS—Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law began writing about a then-new Constitutional Convention forty years ago. Originally, the idea was a bit of a lark, a fun intellectual exercise imagining what a modern Convention might look like. But over the years, Levinson has come to seriously advocate […]
VALERIE RODRIGUEZ—Professor Christopher Mirasola examines how, despite its long tradition of hesitancy to deploy the military domestically, the United States has become a place where presidents can send military personnel into U.S. cities at their own discretion. He argues that today’s controversial deployments are not solely the product of one administration’s overreach but are also […]
JAKE ROSENBERG—The release of OpenAI’s Sora 2 marks a new era in artificial intelligence capabilities. Sora offers a text-to-video model that is capable of transforming short written prompts into realistic and sometimes eerily convincing videos. While the technology has almost limitless creative potential, it also carries serious legal implications for privacy, likeness, and intellectual property […]
LEZAH RICHARDSON—Once the weakest branch of government, the Supreme Court has now become the most powerful and least accountable. But this transition did not happen overnight. Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, explained the Court’s transformation during his guest lecture for the Constitutional Crisis Seminar, hosted by Professor A. […]
KELLY LIANG—Professor Genevieve Lakier of the University of Chicago Law School explores the Trump administration’s attacks on civil society and what that means from a First Amendment perspective. Ultimately, Lakier calls attention to a broader concern: that the government’s aggressive intrusion into civil society is undermining American liberal democracy. Defining Civil Society Traditionally, civil society […]
