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A perfect constitutional storm

Jules Lobel (Pittsburgh): Fundamental Norms, International Law, and the Extraterritorial Constitution. David S. Law (WUSTL) and Mila Versteeg (Virginia): The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution. Allan Erbsen (Minnesota): Constitutional Spaces. Nicholas Stephanopoulos (Columbia): Spatial Diversity. Daniel A. Farber (UC-Berkeley): The Fourteenth Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession. Heather Gerken (Yale): Federalism All the Way Down. Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (Georgetown): The Subjects of the Constitution and The Objects of the Constitution. Vinicius Marinho (UFRJ): Constitutional Prophecy. Roger E. Hartley (WCU): Judicial Independence as a Political Argument. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard): Precautionary Principles in Constitutional Law. Arnold H. Loewy (Texas Tech): Rethinking Search and Seizure in a Post-9/11 World. Milan Markovic (Temple): Can Lawyers Be War Criminals? Paulo Barrozo (Boston College): The Foundations of Constitutional Punishment. Robert J. Smith (DePaul): The Geography of the Death Penalty and its Ramifications. Leslie Meltzer Henry (Maryland): The Jurisprudence of Dignity. Death to the Living Constitution: Can "progressive originalism" become the Next Big Thing on the legal left? The Supreme Court’s Painful Season: The next few years of Supreme Court rulings could be brutal for liberals. A review of The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan. A review of Bong Hits 4 Jesus: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital by James C. Foster. Are Americans more litigious? Eric Bennett Rasmusen and J. Mark Ramseyer on some quantitative evidence. Law without (as many) lawyers: Gillian Hadfield on ways to bring more legal services to Americans without requiring vast new armies of expensive lawyers.