Northwestern University Law Review

In Defense of the 'Hazardous Freedom' of Controversial Student Speech

"8 The Ninth Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction against the school, concluding that the school would likely prevail against Harper's First Amendment challenge to its action.9 The court justified this conclusion without finding that the speech created a substantial disruption to the educational setting, the mainstay standard established by Tinker and applied by courts since.10 Instead the court concluded that the school could prohibit Harper's t-shirt because it intruded o...

Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Rights

Yet the subject of globalization has barely penetrated the consciousness of constitutional scholars in this country.8 The notable exception in this regard has been a torrential outpouring of literature on the propriety of judicial citation to foreign law,9 prompted by the Supreme Court's use of foreign authority in a recent string of controversial cases.10 Judicial use of foreign law is not, however, an isolated phenomenon rooted in the demands of constitutional adjudication or in the charact...

Saving Fair Housing On the Internet: The Case for Amending the Communications Decency Act

If Judges Were Angels: Religious Equality, Free Exercise, and the (Underappreciated) Merits of Smith

When Is Police Violence Justified?

Review Essay

Disabling Prejudice

Comments

Invasive, Inconclusive, and Unnecessary: Precluding the Use of Court-Ordered Psychological Examinations in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

Articles

Homeownership 2.0

Essay

When Obscenity Discriminates

Colloquy Essays

Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional?[Dagger]

Representative Henry Waxman argued that Cheney was avoiding legally required scrutiny by the National Archives and Records Administration, while Cheney's office argued that Cheney, as President of the Senate, was not part of the executive branch and hence not subject to such regulation.4 The political backlash engendered by this position5 led Cheney's office to withdraw to the more defensible position that the office of the Vice President, like the office of the President, was not an "agency"...