Things to Read This Week (3/23/26)

Happy first day of Spring Quarter

The biggest ticket item this week is the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal symposium on constitutional law casebooks. Lots of interesting pieces therein, but alas, not one on my favorite constitutional law casebook. You can find a few of my thoughts on that casebook in this old (almost a decade old!) Volokh post, and in the first few pages of my Teaching Constitutional Law in a Crisis of Judicial Legitimacy.

The Writ to Know: Habeas as Supervision, by Will Kamin. I wouldn’t have thought there was an article to write about the right of public access to habeas corpus proceedings, but I was wrong.

Diversifying the Legal Academy, by Brian Fitzpatrick: “Everywhere I turn, I hear university leaders saying we need more conservatives in academia. There is little doubt anymore that they are right: scholars need skeptics to point out research weaknesses; students need provocateurs to help them engage with unfamiliar ideas; we all need balanced academic studies to help us make good public policy. But what I do not hear from many of these leaders is how they are going to do it. I have been thinking about this for many years, and I have some bad news: it is going to be difficult. I canvass the possibilities below and propose massive external pressure as the most promising course.”