Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic

Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic

Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law By Benjamin Clark. Lexington Books, 2024. Hardcover, 252 pages, $120.00. Reviewed by John G. Grove.  The debate over federal common law does not generally fire the imaginations...
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It

Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It

Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution  By Amy Coney Barrett. Sentinel, 2025.  Hardcover, 336 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by James V. F. Dickey. Listening to the Law reveals the personal and public-facing perspectives of Supreme Court Justice Amy...
Principle and Pragmatism in Law

Principle and Pragmatism in Law

The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties  By Alan Dershowitz.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman.  In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies By Aziz A. Huq. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 192 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Glen Sproviero. Aziz Huq’s The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies is an elegantly written, yet deeply flawed examination of American...
The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan.  Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...