Having previously argued that the Alaska Supreme Court was right to reject a “good faith” test for ballot access, Professor Mark Brown of Capital University School of Law returns to a new front: a Justice Department threatening prosecution over the very same candidacy. An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this week argued that [...]

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (WPR) was enacted to ensure that decisions to introduce US forces into hostilities reflect the collective judgment of Congress and the President. Central to this framework is the 60‑day termination requirement, which obligates the President to obtain congressional authorization or withdraw US forces once they have been introduced into [...]

It was autumn 1774.  In British North America and on the island of Great Britain an intellectual, political and legal revolution that was intended to recognize America’s unique status within the realm would become the sword of American independence.  The First Continental Congress drafted a document not for the purpose of securing liberty, but for the purpose [...]

“Ddddddd… rrrrrrr… ttttttttt!” My brother stares at me in complete bewilderment just as I hold a baby corn in front of my face, waving it with the solemnity of someone confronting a geopolitical enemy rather than a vegetable. “Ah, America… don’t hit me with your corn… I’ll eat your corn, and then you’ll see who [...]

In a case that drew national attention and a half dozen emergency amicus briefs from around the country, the Alaska Supreme Court yesterday summarily affirmed an Alaska state trial court’s ruling that the state’s director of the Division of Elections, Carol Beecher, wrongly removed a senatorial candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, from the ballot. Beecher contended [...]

I was scrolling through Instagram when I came across a post circulated by Iranian musicians and cultural activists responding to the flogging sentence imposed on Parastoo Ahmadi, and what struck me was not the legal formulation of the statement nor its political framing, but a sentence that refused to settle into any category, a sentence [...]

Indonesia is a vast archipelagic nation-state characterized by a rich diversity of religions and beliefs. At the busy Manggarai station, some women wear hijabs in different colors and styles while others opt not to. Veiled or not, they head to work or school—a sign of the progress Indonesia has made on gender equality. Following a [...]

I do not have a home on the street; the street is my home. What I write does not originate in the stable architecture of academic theory, but in the unstable temporality of lived encounters, where thought is still forming, where language has not yet fully separated itself from experience, and where meaning is not [...]

I still remember the children in the courtyard of our apartment building. There were only two boys among a larger group of girls, and yet one of the most serious negotiations of their small world revolved around a strangely precise question: who would play the husband. What appeared, from the distance of adulthood, as a [...]

I am not particularly interested in football, which is perhaps precisely why it began to interest me as something other than football, since there are subjects that announce themselves through passion, through expertise, through a prior attachment that legitimizes one’s engagement with them as if understanding could only follow from caring, and there are others [...]