Originalists and living constitutionalists have been hammering away at each other for decades. But, up until recently, most living constitutionalists at least agreed that originalism qualifies as a ...
With Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings coming up, we’re beginning to hear the usual tired attacks on “original understanding” approaches to interpreting the Constitution. One ...
The retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will not shift the panel’s conservative majority but will open the door to empanel a justice with a different ideological view of the ...
In the April 2019 issue of the Michigan Law Review, Indiana University law professor Ian Samuel, a self-described member of the "political left," assesses the recent book The Justice of Contradictions ...
India, Aug. 31 -- Focusing on the living constitutionalist perspective, the author states that 'the interpretation of the Constitution cannot be confined to its original understanding.' It should ...