March 6
The Trump Presidency and the US constitutional order |
S. Griffin, Trump, Trust, and the Future of the Constitutional Order, 77 Md. L. Rev. 161 (2017)
J.R. Yengibaryan, The Institution of Presidency in the USA, 33 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 175 (2017)
Note, Executive Power, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 934 (2018) |
March 12
Checks and balances: the federal judiciary |
Intro to the US Legal System
State of Washington v. D.J. Trump, 9th Circ., 8 February 2017
Trump v. Hawaii, 9th Circ., 22 Dec. 2017
R. Rotunda, The Confirmation Process for Supreme Court Justices in the Modern Era, 37 Emory L. J. 559 (1988)
S. Breyer, The workings of the US Supreme Court, 45 Ottawa L. Rev. 565 (2014)
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March 13
Methods of Interpretation and the legacy of A. Scalia
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W. Brennan, The Constitution of the US: Contemporary Ratification, 27 South Texas L. Rev. 433 (1986)
W.J. Rehnquist, The Notion of a Living Constitution, 54 Texas L. Rev. 693 (1976)
T. Marshall, The Constitution’s Bicentennial: Commemorating the Wrong Document?, 40 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1337 (1987)
J. Purdy, Neo-liberal Constitutionalism: Lochnerism for a New Economy, 77 Law & Cont. Prob’s 195 (2014) |