In a new paper, I examine, along with a co-author (James Heilpern), whether "subject to the jurisdiction" would have had a familiar legal meaning to lawyers in the mid-nineteenth century, and if so ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme ...

The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

Supreme Court justices had pointed questions for both sides during oral arguments on President Donald Trump's birthright ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

President Trump's executive order adopting a narrow understanding of birthright citizenship in order to exclude the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors has ...