Paul Schiff Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School Paul Schiff Berman is one of the world’s foremost theorists on the interactions among legal systems. He is ...

For the last three weeks, the Jan. 6 hearings have brought back the sights, sounds and horror of a mob infiltrating the U.S. Capitol in broad daylight, bent on overturning the will of millions of ...

In this column, I’m going to discuss a legal theory the Supreme Court is currently considering in the Moore v. Harper case that according to highly respected former conservative federal circuit judge, ...

To hear some describe it, critical race theory is Marxism, a threat to the American way of life, reverse racism and a scheme to indoctrinate children. The reality is less sensationalistic. "It's a ...

As political controversy swirls around the concept of critical race theory (CRT), some faculty at the University of Akron School of Law briefly grappled with whether to scrub it and the term itself ...

The Supreme Court struck down a legal theory Tuesday that would have given state legislators widespread power to determine election rules, shutting down GOP efforts to use the doctrine as a way to ...

Texas Senator John Cornyn has criticized a Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to have the Supreme Court invalidate election results in four key battleground ...

After the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs, I was part of a legal team that challenged Ohio’s ban on abortion in court. A few months later, we had an initial victory: The restriction ...

"Independent state legislature" advocates say it’s based on the Constitution. This story is part of the ABC News series "Democracy in Peril," which examines the inflection point the country faces ...