The U.S. Supreme Court's new term is here, offering new opportunities for the justices to remake our constitutional rights in the name of history. In its last two terms alone, the court did just that ...

Not so long ago, originalism seemed safely contained. Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, but when ...

E very scholar — maybe every person — should have an intellectual opposite number: someone you agree with about the most basic facts but who nevertheless interprets those facts so radically ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Students and the Yale Law School community gathered in the Sterling law building Friday to discuss a recent book by Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 — the second volume in the law scholar’s trilogy about the ...

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified following vigorous national debate on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791. Their passage came ...

Something like the idea animating The Collective-Action Constitution—or a narrower, more implicit, and more intuitive version of it—has been around for a long time and has been articulated in many ...