American legal scholar (1943-)
Under English common law, citizenship was determined by where one was born. That principle, which was known as “jus soli” or “law of the soil,” became the norm throughout the…
Lee Edwards uses a National Review Online column to lambast U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan for government control of big corporations. Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act has serious enforcement powers. It…
More than two dozen scholars, pundits, and other invited guests help Commentary magazine explore present-day threats to free speech. Among the more interesting observations are those of New York University…
Last month, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a 300-page report entitled, “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties.” In the words of Chairman, Martin R. Castro, the…
The headline in an email promoting the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider” reads “Courts will find racism, if that’s what they look for.” It sounds like a perfect encapsulation of Friday’s ruling…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column documents disturbing changes in the way federal Title IX has been employed in recent years. Initially, the main impetus behind the law was the rather…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with constitutional scholar Richard Epstein about the importance of fixed rules and formal boundaries in American law. Jon Ham’s Daily…
Richard Epstein offers National Review Online readers his assessment of Tuesday’s 10-year anniversary of the Kelo v. New London U.S. Supreme Court eminent domain ruling. Ten years later, my reaction…
As the N.C. Senate begins its state budget work, Terry Stoops discusses the House’s budget plan and the John Locke Foundation’s alternative General Fund budget during the next edition of…
Fans of the late economist F.A. Hayek know he was no fan of government central planning. But the latest Hayek Lecture at Duke University challenged Hayek’s antipathy toward planning. Legal…
During his talk, Professor Epstein mentioned one of the most famous of all Con Law cases, Lochner v. New York. He said that he thought the decision was correct and…
Legal scholar Richard Epstein sees plenty of opportunities for mistakes when judges and lawyers decide that constitutional language is unclear and subject to various interpretations. Epstein spent nearly 90 minutes…