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Law and national courts

R. George Wright (Indiana): The Magna Carta and the Contemporary Rule of Law Problem. Lee J. Strang (Georgetown): Originalism’s Subject Matter: Why the Declaration of Independence is not Part of the Constitution. Jack M. Balkin (Yale): The Construction of Original Public Meaning. Jonathan Mayer (Stanford): Constitutional Malware. Jasper L. Tran (Minnesota): The Right to Attention. Donald Matthew Mender (Yale): Boundary Violations of the U.S. Constitution: The Case of Old Hickory. Peter L. Strauss (Columbia): The President and the Constitution. Rational choice attitudinalism: Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser review The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice by Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner. Bertrall L. Ross (UC-Berkeley): The State as Witness: Windsor, Shelby County, and Judicial Distrust of the Legislative Record. Kellen R. Funk reviews The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution by John W.Compton.

Osnat Grady Schwartz (HUJI): International Law and National Courts: Between Mutual Empowerment and Mutual Weakening. David L. Sloss (Santa Clara) and Michael P. Van Alstine (Maryland): International Law in Domestic Courts. Mark Rahdert (Temple): Exceptionalism Unbound: Appraising American Resistance to Foreign Law. Zachary D. Kaufman (Yale): From the Aztecs to the Kalahari Bushmen — Conservative Justices’ Citation of Foreign Sources: Consistency, Inconsistency, or Evolution? John F. Coyle (UNC): The Case for Writing International Law into the U.S. Code. Why the Supreme Court must think globally: Noah Feldman reviews The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities by Stephen Breyer (and more).