The due process clause of the fourteenth amendment1 and the full faith and credit clause of
article four2 together limit the power of a state to exercise jurisdiction over parties and to …

Federal and state courts routinely interpret and apply each other's law. Federal courts must
apply state law under the Rules of Decision Act1 as construed in Erie Railroad Co. v …

A standard result, both of economic and political theory1 and of sociological empiricism, 2 is
that when groups form, insider members desire their agents to rent seek against outsiders …

Assessing the Constitutionality of Laws That Are Both Content-Based and Content-Neutral:
The Emerging Constitutional Calculus Page 1 Assessing the Constitutionality of Laws That …

What is the best way to interpret statutes?" The hard truth of the matter," wrote Henry Hart
and Albert Sacks better than a half-century ago," is that American courts have no intelligible …

Over the past several years, the California Constitution has supplanted the Federal
Constitution as the basis for the California Supreme Court's judicial review of the actions of …

Choice-of-forum clauses can pose a significnt ohsracle to individuals hoping to bring claims
against corporations. By limiting claims to particular geographic locations, choice of ftrum is …

In the 1980s, the Princeton political scientist Walter Murphy and his colleagues contended
that the question of" What is the Constitution" should be front and center in constitutional …

Federal statutes do not come with instructions, but maybe they should. For as long as there
have been statutes, lawyers and laymen have puzzled over their inevitable ambiguities …

The hard truth of the matter is that American courts have no intelligible, generally accepted,
and consistently applied theory of statutory interpretation. Twenty years ago, Henry Hart and …