Harvard Law Review

Drug Scheduling as Institutional Design

The United States makes bad choices when it comes to psychoactive drugs. Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), U.S. drug law has simultaneously fueled mass incarceration, inhibited needed access, and enabled an opioid crisis.

Fourth Amendment Book Review

Fourth Amendment Equilibrium Adjustment in an Age of Technological Upheaval

The Digital Fourth Amendment is written by Professor Orin Kerr, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the Fourth Amendment, electronic privacy, and criminal procedure. Kerr’s work has been deeply influential in shaping how courts are looking at and deciding issues raised by law enforcement’s powerful and novel capabilities, thanks to technological changes.

Jennifer Stisa Granick

First Amendment Notes

Content Neutrality for Kids: Intermediate Scrutiny for Social Media Age-Verification Laws

The kids are not okay. Evidence of decreasing school performance, increasing rates of depression and anxiety, and declining social engagement among minors has created a national panic. One common culprit has emerged: social media companies. The…

Legal History Notes

The Semantics of Jury Nullification: How Terminology Shapes (and Misshapes) the Jury’s Role

Sometimes what we call a practice can matter just as much as the practice itself. Jury nullification has a storied history dating back to the seventeenth century; yet the term “nullification” gained prominence only in the…

Election Law Recent Case

Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, Inc. v. Secretary, Florida Department of State

State constitutions serve as important sources of individual rights. They often extend broader protections than the Federal Constitution and have, in some instances, included affirmative mandates to remedy racial discrimination. Recently, however, the Florida Supreme Court…

Constitutional Law Recent Case

People v. Thompson

The Supreme Court has long declared itself “supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution.” But that does not leave the state courts with nothing to say. Recently, in People v. Thompson, the Supreme…

Environmental Law Recent Event

Construction and Management of the South Florida Detention Facility

The second Trump Administration is executing an extensive immigration crackdown — pulling more people into detention, expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and funneling money from other federal initiatives into immigration enforcement. Contemporaneously, in 2025, the state of…

About the Harvard Law Review

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Forum

Criminal Justice Fellowship Essay

Qualified Immunity for “Just Following Orders”

Simone Wallk

First Amendment Speech Essay

“Our Money or Your Life!” Higher Education and the First Amendment

Cass R. Sunstein

Civil Rights Response

Zionism and Title VI

Response to Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed

Stephen E. Sachs

Civil Rights Response

The Undone Business of the Warren Court

Response to To a Conservative Warren Court

Pamela S. Karlan

Religion Essay

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed

Environmental Law Response

Waste, Property, and the Democratic Process

Response to Waste, Property, and Useless Things

Eduardo M. Peñalver

Civil Rights Fellowship Essay

Administrative Nullification and the Precarity of Carceral Reform

Blog

Constitutional Law Blog Essay

Challenging Politically Discriminatory Funding Cuts

February 1, 2026

Chandler Rankin

Artificial Intelligence Blog Essay

Executive Preemption and the Dormant Commerce Clause After Pataki and Paxton

January 15, 2026

J.B. Branch

In Memoriam Blog Essay

Justice David Souter: A Former Supreme Court Employee Remembers

December 10, 2025

Michael F. Duggan

Preemption Blog Essay

(As-)Applying PLCAA’s Predicate Exception After National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. James

November 24, 2025

Charles N. Randall

Separation of Powers Blog Essay

Making Sense of the Emergency Appropriations Decisions

November 11, 2025

Zachary S. Price

Supreme Court Blog Essay

Perttu v. Richards

November 11, 2025

Sophie Li

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Articles

Supreme Court Articles

Practical Consequences in Statutory Interpretation

Anita S. Krishnakumar

Constitutional Interpretation Articles

The First Criminal Procedure Revolution

Emma Kaufman

Federal Courts Articles

Federalism and the New National Security

Criminal Procedure Articles

Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure

Essays

Article III Essay

Interim Orders, the Presidency, and Judicial Supremacy

Jack Goldsmith

Constitutional Interpretation Essay

Originalism’s Age of Ironies

Sherif Girgis

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Book Reviews

Abortion Law Book Review

How to Get Free in a Time of Retrenchment

Kimberly Mutcherson

Bankruptcy Book Review

Who’s Afraid of Bankruptcy

Abbye Atkinson

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Tributes

In Memoriam Tribute

In Memoriam: Justice David H. Souter

In Memoriam Tribute

In Memoriam: Professor Charles Fried

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Recently Cited

The student pieces featured below have been recently cited in judicial opinions and legal scholarship.

Habeas Corpus Leading Case