Why I So Enjoyed Learning With and From Calvin Massey

[Excerpt] “I am pleased and proud to participate in this tribute to Calvin Massey, with whom I had the pleasure to work and play for about two decades. When I think of Calvin—and I think of him often—I think of a generous friend, a gregarious colleague and a genuinely good man. He possessed many admirable traits, but today I want to focus on three: (1) his breadth; (2) his independent mind; and (3) his thoughtfulness.

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth About High Crimes and Misdemeanors and the Constitution\u27s Impeachment Process. Book Review Of: High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. by Ann Coulter

Book review of: High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. By Ann Coulter. Regnery Publishing, Inc. 1998. Pp. 358. Reviewed by: Vikram David Ama

Federalism Friction in the First Year of the Trump Presidency

Over the last twelve months or so, federalism principles have been repeatedly invoked by state and local governments in a range of lawsuits and legislative proposals seeking to block or temper federal policy initiatives emanating from the new Administration of President Donald Trump. In this essay, I hope to sketch out a few of the more high-profile federalism flashpoints that have emerged over the past year or so, and offer some preliminary assessments of some of the decisions that lower courts (and legislative bodies) have been rendering in some of them. I try to highlight areas of agreement and areas of divergence. And even as to some areas of agreement, I try to explore plausible arguments to be made that the Supreme Court will (and in some cases perhaps should) see things differently as these disputes begin to make their way up the appellate ladder in the coming months and years

Lessons from California\u27s Recent Experience with Its Non-Unitary (Divided) Executive: Of Mayors, Governors, Controllers, and Attorneys General

It is often said that one of the great advantages of a federalist system is that states can operate as laboratories of democracy, experimenting with common law and statutory frameworks in ways that provide useful policy information to other states as well as the federal government. The utility of this framework is not limited to the common law or experiments by legislatures; it applies with equal, albeit underappreciated, force to matters of constitutional law. Thus, in a symposium dedicated to examining the meaning and future of the federal ¿unitary executive,¿ the experience of states¿almost all of which reject a unitary executive model¿warrants some inquiry