How should we make sense of the dizzying varieties of constitutionalisms? In a new paper, Rosalind Dixon terms this phenomenon 'adjectival constitutionalism' and suggests four modes of operation: as topic, model, mode, and discourse. Link below

Thanks for the “recommended” tag, Larry!
Excited to share my job-market paper, which uses the recent religious charter school case to show how faith-based entities secure public funds while sidestepping constitutional limits—a phenomenon I term “private disestablishment.”

An equally divided Supreme Court keeps in place the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the establishment of the nation's first religious charter school. A significant victory for the separation of church and state!

Delighted that 'Private Disestablishment' is now forthcoming at the BYU Law Review. Looking forward to working with the editors!

SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On what's at stake with religious charter schools, see Linda Greenhouse in the NYT yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

The Center of Advanced Studies on Reflexive Globalization and the Law at Humboldt University, Berlin, has opened its call for residential fellowships for '25-'26, with stipends, with a focus on colonial legacies in constitutional & criminal law. Deadline Feb '25
www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/reg...

Sure does look like it

preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g...

Tallahassee’s Grove Museum has the pen that Lyndon Johnson used to sign the Civil Rights Act into law, gifted to LeRoy Collins, Florida governor at the time, primarily for his support of desegregation