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I've long followed and much admired CIR's work; Rosenberger v. Rector (free speech) and U.S. v. Morrison (federalism) are two prominent examples over the years, but you can see some of their other cases here. (I'm also one of their occasional academic advisors.) They're hiring, and I thought I'd pass along the details: The Individual…

The privacy of the secret ballot is vital to our elections, but it can sometimes be in tension with transparency. Where to draw the line?

Call for Applications of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline: September 15, 2023

Call for Applications of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline: September 28, 2023

Walter Olson


The Supreme Court today decided Haaland v. Brackeen, a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. It did not reach vital underlying Constitutional issues of equal protection and individual rights for children and families, and these remain to be resolved another day. Instead, the Court addressed important structural issues concerning the relationship between federal, state, and tribal governments. It interpreted the Constitution as giving robust powers to Congress to regulate Indian matters, while sharply limiting the underlying authority of state governments. It also found the doctrine of "commandeering" inapplicable to the facts here and denied some claims of standing. The 7–2 decision was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito writing dissents and Justice Brett Kavanaugh a concurrence.
Future cases may frame more sharply than this one did such questions as whether children and parents who have never lived in tribal relations or in Indian country may nonetheless be subjected to tribal sovereignty and special custody presumptions because of blood descent alone. Cato raised some of these issues in its brief.
Everyone interested in these issues should read Justice Neil Gorsuch's eloquent concurrence, joined in part by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, in which he lays out the grim history of government intervention in Indian family life to which ICWA was a reaction. It is a history in which agents of the state intervened to take children away from the only families they had ever known, very much against those families' will, to place them with complete strangers in pursuit of vague remedial goals. Some will see in this history above all an assault on Indian tribes as collective entities. Others — I am one — will be moved to horror above all by the flagrant violations of individual and family rights. We should take care not to repeat such violations in pursuit of new remedial objectives.

Call for Applications of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline: September 15, 2023

Should election authorities publish records of the voting database detailed enough to permit possible inferences as to how individuals voted? And would doing so calm suspicions about rigged elections?

Organisations and individuals involved in the management of migration face constant change. What can we learn from them? Drawing from her research in migration management across different countries in Europe and Africa, Katerina Glyniadaki explores how to manage transitions during turbulent times. She highlights four aspects: anticipation, sense-making, response and learning. Katerina Glyniadaki spoke at the LSE Festival event How … Continued

Call for Papers for a Conference in Freiburg im Breisgau on November 28–30, 2024. Deadline: February 29, 2024

Drawing on qualitative evidence from community engaged academics, Wade B. Kelly and Lisa M. Given outline how two frameworks for context-informed, community engagement can support researchers and research institutions to foster social change. Effective community engagement, as a potential pathway to societal impact of research, requires deep understanding and adept navigation of the highly complex … Continued

This final post in the series on group project work looks at the oral group exam, which is a traditional Danish type of exam. Oral exams are integral to the Danish educational system from primary school through to university and can take different forms. This post explains the oral group exam based on a project, […]
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Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins

This is true despite claims to the contrary by some on both the left and right.

International conference to be held at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences (Qualitative Methods) on 9-10th February 2018, Göttingen This interdisciplinary and international conference offers an opportunity for discussion and exchange between scholars engaged in research on violence and those engaged in biographical research, from their different academic perspectives....

Turkey is plunged into yet another profound judicial crisis as the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) and the Turkish Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) lock horns over the fate of an imprisoned opposition politician. While two earlier posts published on Verfassungsblog have already meticulously dissected this unfolding judicial drama (here and here), we aim to invigorate the debate with a fresh vantage point. In this piece, we will narrow the focus to one key actor: the TCC. More particularly, we will delve into the implications this evolving judicial crisis holds for the future of the TCC's individual application mechanism.