Looking at Law
"The Roberts Test Falters: Enforcement of State Civil Rights Laws After Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale"
"The Wild Ride"
"Levinson Comment"
"Holmes Comment"
"The Supreme Court and the New Deal: A True Test of the Power of Judicial Review"
Same-Sex Marriage
"The Impact of Values Upon Constitutional Interpretation and Application"
This paper was presented at the Youngstown State University Quest 2001, a program for recognition of student academic research and scholarly activities.
This November 3, 2000 viewpoint ponders an Electoral College tie and a 50-50 Senate split. Eerie ...
A May 2000 comment looks at the ways in which Sanford Levinson's, "Law as Literature," suggests tht Holmes -- and not Marshall -- may be our Nietzschean judge.
An April comment argued that Holmes path is as applicalbe today as it was more than 100 years ago.
This Spring 1999 article looks at the Supreme Court's actions before and during President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, while also examining the political schism created by FDR's court-packing proposal.
This Fall 1997 hypothetical judicial opinion briefly muses upon the outcome of a Supreme Court case based on a legal same-sex marriage obtained in one state, in this case Hawaii, and whether or not another state, in this case Georgia, must recognize the marriage. The piece is written from the point of view of Justice David Souter.
This Fall 1997 article analyzes which of the many standards for constitutional interpretation is most in fitting with our American democracy.
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