Balkinization: Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum’s new book, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019). 1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to Balkinization Symposium on Neal … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scalia
New book is “First” by Evan Thomas and here’s the excerpt, courtesy of Mike Sacks: Some behind the scenes detail of Bush v Gore: -O’Connor backfired her bestie Breyer’s bid for Kennedy’s vote -Scalia went along with what he thought … Continue reading
On the third anniversary of Scalia's death, here's a piece I wrote for @Slate last year that is even truer today: Scalia’s legacy is stronger than ever: https://t.co/qCLYLPv7bt via @slate— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) February 13, 2019 The @Slate piece on … Continue reading
Here at California Litigation, reviewing The Justice of Contradictions. … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: It’s a great time for liberals to brush up on their knowledge of originalism and textualism. These judicial theories, which say that judges should interpret constitutional provisions or statutes by looking solely … Continue reading
Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs: The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine School of Law Facebook Twitter Date: Fri, 11/09/2018 – 12:00pm Location: Robertson Hall, Bowl 16 Audience: Princeton … Continue reading
Here‘s Bob Egelko’s review “Originalism on Trial,” in the LA Review of Books, reviewing my book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. … Continue reading
Manu Raju and Joan Biskupic report for CNN. A few of my earlier Slate pieces: The Only Thing That Might Stop Trump From Replacing Kennedy With a Scalia Clone How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting Rights and … Continue reading
Listen here. (Link to buy the book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.) … Continue reading
I sat down with Dahlia Lithwick for Slate’s Amicus Podcast. Listen: In the first of a series of deep dives into great legal reads this summer, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Rick Hasen, author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the Supreme Court last week, was certainly the “swing justice” in key cases on major issues from abortion to gay rights. But when … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Buckle up, folks. If you did not like what the Supreme Court has done in the last few weeks on voting rights, public-sector unions, and Trump’s travel ban, things are going … Continue reading
Funny, rude & innovative, Antonin Scalia was a disrupter on the court. @rickhasen's THE JUSTICE OF CONTRADICTIONS (@yalepress) wrestles w/Scalia’s favored ways of interpreting the law, textualism & originalism. He joins @heathbrown for this #podcast. https://t.co/gzK2tSsWLo pic.twitter.com/4xR3QEHUNS — NB Political … Continue reading
Richard Wolf for USA Today. … Continue reading
I did a really great Q and A with Tony Mauro for the May issue of the National Law Journal about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. … Continue reading
I had a great conversation with June Grasso of Bloomberg Law about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. Listen. … Continue reading
[bumping to the top given the upcoming Tuesday argument in the Texas redistricting cases] I have written this piece for TPM Cafe. It begins: In a Supreme Court term already bursting with election cases, from two partisan gerrymandering disputes to a fight about the permissibility of … Continue reading
You can listen here. … Continue reading
I appreciated the opportunity to do this Q & A with Ken at the Washington Independent Review of Books about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. I linked earlier to his review … Continue reading
Alternative link. I have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming: Chicago-Kent Law Review) based on this talk. Here is the abstract: This Address builds upon ideas first presented in Richard L. Hasen, After Scalia: The Future of United States Election Law, 17 … Continue reading
In connection with the release of my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, I’ve given a number of talks. Some of these are now available on video: Mar. 5 (Video) NYC conversation with Joan … Continue reading
My UCI Law colleague and former LA Times legal reporter Henry Weinstein interviewed me about my new book on Justice Scalia’s complex legacy. It was a great discussion. Watch the archived video. … Continue reading
I believe that the author of a book ordinarily should allow it to speak for itself, and let readers read the book and critiques before making their own determination about the relative merits of the book’s arguments. But Ed Whelan, … Continue reading
Joe Patrice for Above the Law. … Continue reading
On Monday at noon pacific, my UCI Law colleague and former LA Times legal reporter Henry Weinstein will interview me about my new book on Justice Scalia’s complex legacy. Watch the livestream. … Continue reading
I have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming: Chicago-Kent Law Review). Here is the abstract: This Address builds upon ideas first presented in Richard L. Hasen, After Scalia: The Future of United States Election Law, 17 AMERIKA HŌ 1 (Koji … Continue reading
Ed Whelan, defender of all things Scalia and author of the “This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism” feature on National Review, is in the midst of a multi-post critique of my book (here, here and here). I’m still mulling whether to take up … Continue reading
Simon Lazarus reviews my book for The American Prospect. [corrected link] … Continue reading
Calvin TerBeek blogs at Balkinization. … Continue reading
Political Wire conversations: Rick Hasen, author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptor of the nation’s highest court. Subscribe via iTunes or Google … Continue reading
Podcast from Take Care: On a new episode of Versus Trump, Jason talks to Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar and purveyor of the Election Law Blog, about what’s going on at the voting booth, possible campaign finance law violations by both Trump … Continue reading
Great conversation! (alternative link.) … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Over the next few months, the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver a crushing blow to public sector unions, allow more purges that remove eligible voters from the rolls, limit anti-discrimination laws protecting the LBGT community in … Continue reading
You can watch at this link. This is from an event at Georgetown Law (sponsored by ACS) held on March 6, 2018, about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. … Continue reading
Jost on Justice: Antonin Scalia knew how to dish it out, but he wasn’t so good at taking it. Thus, Supreme Court watchers can be sure that the late justice would have nothing good to say about the myth-puncturing critique … Continue reading
I have written this blog post over at the Harvard Law Review blog. It begins: After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, the United States Supreme Court finally answered the question whether it would heed Pennsylvania Republicans’ calls to put on hold the Pennsylvania Supreme … Continue reading
This was loads of fun. … Continue reading
Ron Collins at SCOTUSBlog: The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Richard L. Hasen on the occasion of the publication of his book “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption” (Yale University Press, … Continue reading
Read it here. … Continue reading
My conversation with Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Professor Susan Low Bloch of Georgetown Law about my new book on Justice Scalia’s legacy should air some time this weekend on CSPAN Book TV. The video should post … Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse NYT column. I’ve got a very different view, which I’ll be writing about over coming weeks. … Continue reading
(also at this link) There’s also this podcast. (Link to order the book.) … Continue reading
Fix the Court: On the day before he died, Justice Antonin Scalia – deplaning from Southwest flight no. 1209 at Houston Hobby, gun in tow and in poorer health than was widely known – was met by deputy U.S. marshals … Continue reading
My Yale University Press book is officially out next week (available to buy now at Amazon, on Audible audiobook, and for Kindle) , but you can now freely download the five-page preface at SSRN. Here is how it opens: … Continue reading
Amazon has started shipping out my book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, with an official release date of March 20. Today, I am in DC for this event: Justice of Contradictions: Discussing Scalia’s Legacy A … Continue reading
The official release date of my book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, is March 20, but Amazon is starting to ship books this week. Here are two events I have today: Mar. 5 NYC lunch … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, a case raising the question of whether Minnesota and other states can prevent people from wearing political apparel … Continue reading
I’m very much looking forward to this lunchtime talk March 6 at Georgetown Law, sponsored by ACS, talking about Justice Scalia’s legacy and the future of the Supreme Court, teeing off my upcoming book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia … Continue reading
Joan Biskupic’s 2009 biography of Justice Scalia, American Original, is really one of the best and she is one of the most thoughtful students of the Supreme Court and the Justices. I am very excited to be in conversation with … Continue reading
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption Book Tour January through March 2018 Professor of Law Richard L. Hasen will participate in a variety of speaking engagements this winter on his forthcoming book The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia … Continue reading