Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2026 (and every year since 2005) Reason · May 3
Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2025 (and every year since 2005) Reason · Feb 9
Philip Hamburger on "The Importance of Granting Cert in Canna Provisions v. Bondi" Columbia Prof. Philip Hamburger urges the Supreme Court to hear this caseand take the opportunity to overturn Gonzales v. Raich. Reason · Dec 6, 2025
Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2024 (and every year since 2005). Reason · Jul 4, 2024
More on Coercion, Social Media, and Freedom of Speech: Rejoinder to Philip Hamburger Prof. Hamburger continues to conflate coercion and voluntary choice. Reason · Mar 26, 2024
Hamburger Responds: Prof. Somin Repeats His Errors Round 3 in the debate between Hamburger and Somin over the First Amendment and Murthy Reason · Mar 26, 2024
Abridgement, Coercion, and Freedom of Speech: Reply to Philip Hamburger Prof. Hamburger is wrong to argue that the use of the word "abridgment" implies that noncoercive government persuasion directed at social media firms violates the First Amendment. Reason · Mar 25, 2024
Abridging, Not Coercing, Is The First Amendment's Yardstick for Speech Violations Philip Hamburger: Prof. Somin is mistaken about Murthy v. Missouri Reason · Mar 25, 2024
FAQs re Murthy v. Missouri Philip Hamburger on How to Understand this Free Speech Case Reason · Mar 14, 2024
Supreme Court to hear arguments on landmark regulatory doctrine - Roll Call The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases that could upend how courts review decisions administrative agencies make. Roll Call · Jan 16, 2024
When Government Uses Private Companies to Regulate Speech Federal courts must up their game to handle the new symbiosis of government power and private businesses. Reason · Jun 10, 2023
Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2023 (and every year since 2005). Reason · Mar 21, 2023
Google, Section 230 & Nohemi Gonzalez Philip Hamburger's Op-Ed at the Federalist on a case to be argued next week Reason · Feb 16, 2023
Recent Books on the Constitution My seminar picks for 2022 (and every year since 2005) Reason · Jun 14, 2022
Ballotpedia · Feb 22, 2022 Checks and Balances: IRS walks back use of facial recognition technology The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.
Reason · Feb 9, 2022 It's Blacklisting All the Way Down [UPDATE: See Prof. Hamburger's response below.]
Reason · Feb 6, 2022 Hamburger v. Parrillo on the Nondelegation Doctrine An interesting exchange on the implications of early agency power to revise tax assessments.
Reason · Jan 17, 2022 Prof. Philip Hamburger (Columbia) on the Nondelegation Doctrine Prof. Hamburger has a very interesting article on this, Nondelegation Blues; the abstract: The nondelegation doctrine is in crisis. For approximately a century, it has been the Supreme Court's answer to questions about transfers of legislative power. But as became evident in Gundy v. United States, those answers are wearing…