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Richard M. Re

@RichardMRe

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 Cambridge, MA
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Joined May 2014
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Final version: The Standing Realignment | The Supreme Court Review: Vol 2025, By Paz and Re journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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The Standing Realignment | The Supreme Court Review: Vol 2025, No null

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On Canceling the Midterm Election

On Canceling the Midterm Election

My insightful colleagues Professors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan have recently published an important and engaging book entitled Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.

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Matthew Tokson@mtoksonOct 28
My new article, Artificial Intelligence and Near-Total Law Enforcement, is up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Two cheers for “insecure originalism”

Two cheers for “insecure originalism”

In his new book, Justice Samuel Alito takes aim at what he calls judicial “insecurity,” or a judge’s self-conscious worry that he might be advancing his own policy preferences under the guise of impa…

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Jeff Pojanowski@pojanowskiOct 27
I am grateful for this generous review of my article by @brandonwduke on @IReadJotwell. conlaw.jotwell.com/two-ways-…

Two Ways to Be Bound - Constitutional Law

Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, Faces of Formalism, 112 Va. L. Rev. 95 (2026).Brandon DukeFormalism has won. Textualism is now the Supreme Court’s dominant language of statutory interpretation, and original...

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Orin Kerr
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Jud Campbell's scholarship is terrific, and I enjoyed his new Scalia lecture at HLS: "The Federalist Bill of Rights," arguing there was a divide b/w the Federalists & Anti-Federalists about what a Bill of Rights should be, & the Federalist view won out. youtube.com/watch?v=UIcFp-i_…
Harvard Law's 2026 Scalia Lecture | Jud Campbell: The Federalist Bill...

Harvard Law's 2026 Scalia Lecture | Jud Campbell: The Federalist Bill...

A lecture by Jud Campbell, professor of law at Stanford Law School,...

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Payvand Ahdout@PAhdoutOct 27
New paper up on SSRN - Interbranch Litigation - Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Lawrence Solum
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Bayefsky on Tradition and the Federal Judicial Power: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11440…
Bayefsky on Tradition and the Federal Judicial Power

Bayefsky on Tradition and the Federal Judicial Power

Rachel Bayefsky (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Tradition and the Federal Judicial Power (Stanford Law Review, forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Tradition is …

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Josh Blackman
@JoshMBlackmanOct 26
Bob Woodward Reveals He Spoke With Justices Stewart, Powell, White, Blackmun, and Rehnquist for "The Brethren" reason.com/volokh/2026/10/26…

Bob Woodward Reveals He Spoke With Justices Stewart, Powell, White, Blackmun, and Rehnquist for...

Steven Goldberg, one of Brennan's clerks, provided Woodward with the 75-page case history of U.S.v. Nixon.

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William Marra
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Precedent and Jurisdiction - Penn Law Review

Precedent and Jurisdiction - Penn Law Review

The principle of stare decisis provides that courts should usually, but not always, follow their precedents. Recent Supreme Court decisions overruling major precedents confirm that stare decisis...

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Download of the Week: "Sanctuary and the Data State" by Marouf & Pham: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11445…
Download of the Week: “Sanctuary and the Data State” by Marouf & Pham

Download of the Week: “Sanctuary and the Data State” by Marouf & Pham

The Download of the Week is Sanctuary and the Data State by Fatma E. Marouf and Huyen Pham.  Here is the abstract: Historically, sanctuary policies focused on protected physical space and…

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Shalev Roisman@Shalev_RoismanOct 21
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Engstrom, Marcus & Setzer on Managerial Courts: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11427…
Engstrom, Marcus & Setzer on Managerial Courts

Engstrom, Marcus & Setzer on Managerial Courts

David Freeman Engstrom (Stanford Law School), David Marcus (UCLA School of Law), and Elliot Setzer (Yale University) have posted Managerial Courts (Yale Law Journal) on SSRN.  Here is the…

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Eichensehr on the Major Questions Doctrine, Exceptions, and Foreign Affairs: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11411…
Eichensehr on the Major Questions Doctrine, Exceptions, and Foreign Affairs

Eichensehr on the Major Questions Doctrine, Exceptions, and Foreign Affairs

Kristen Eichensehr (Harvard Law School) has posted The Major Questions Doctrine, Exceptions, and Foreign Affairs (N.Y.U. Law Review Online, forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Th…

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Cass Sunstein
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Carl Schmitt and Moral Time Travel, with applause to @StephenESachs (This was both interesting and painful to write.) casssunstein.substack.com/p/…
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Adam Zimmerman@Adam_ZimmermanOct 17
1. Our latest, Who Leads in Mass Litigation?, is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. With an incredible interdisciplinary team, we took a 20 year dive into lawyers steering multidistrict litigation--which accounts for ~40% of all filed federal cases. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Yonathan Arbel
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Judicial economy: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16603
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David Schleicher@ProfSchleichOct 15
Here's a new essay, by @nicholas_bagley and me, discussing Diego Zambrano's exciting new book, How Americans Enforce the Law, on @BzationBlog balkin.blogspot.com/2026/10/…
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@ilan_wurmanOct 15
In light of the SG asking for certiorari on the question of APA vacatur, I have posted a major REVISION to my "Set Aside" paper. This is a significantly improved version (thanks for all the feedback!) with lots more cases/data too. A VERY interesting subject. Link below. 1/2
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Alex Nunn
@AlexNunnOct 14
I made an animation showing the Top 10 most-cited Supreme Court cases every year since 1792. It's remarkable how citations (by federal and state courts) have exploded in frequency in the last half century.
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