Things to Read This Week (5/25/26)
Revisionist histories for Memorial Day
The Limits of Text, by Farah Peterson. How much did the text of the Constitution really make the law in the early Republic? A fascinating and skeptical exploration.
Prosecuting Contempt, by Sam Bray and Aditya Bamzai. A defense of the judicial appointment of prosecutors for contempt as part of the judicial power — contrary to the growing revisionist take. (With a rethinking of the criminal/civil contempt distinction along the way.)
In Search of University Democracy, by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen. This is not how I would want my university to be run, but anything co-authored by these two is worth reading asap.