Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly ...

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

The Georgetown University Center for the Constitution, which leads programming on constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, awarded an annual book prize to two law professors for ...

This book could change the way conservatives read the Constitution “Against Constitutional Originalism” by historian Jonathan Gienapp could fundamentally reorient how we understand America’s ...

The Constitution also means what it does not say. If the men who wrote the Constitution wanted to make our government “efficient,” they would not have installed checks and balances, which slow ...

Constitutional law scholar Kim Wehle talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about her book "Pardon Power," exploring how the pardon system works and why.

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin (Basic Books, 352 pages, $25) An important conservative intellectual was here teaching an attentive post ...

The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. This piece originally appeared in The New York Review of Books. We ...

May 30 and 31, 2025 CLC workshop: Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields. This is the second of a three-part series on Teaching ...