The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.

Christopher Frey Tbf Augustine is pretty explicit that his theft had nothing whatever to do with a hankering after pears. This was why he found it so puzzling

On the history of the Establishment Clause. New Sub Deo podcast on Chapman & McConnell, "Agreeing to Disagree." Listen in! Marc O. DeGirolami Kevin C. Walsh 🇻🇦🇺🇸🧡 x.com/MarcODeGirolam…

Marc O. DeGirolami When I was a law student at Georgetown, almost 30 years ago, the competition essay for law review was on assisted suicide. We were restricted to the sources in the binder - Griswold, Roe, etc. I couldn't figure out how to argue the pro-life position effectively from there, I

Some personal news. Starting August 1, I will be joining the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at WashU (WashU Danforth Center on Religion & Politics) as a Professor of Practice. I think it's a perfect step for my career as Senator Danforth envisioned the Center to be a place for public engagement

Write with the confidence of that 11th or 12th scholar who found yet another step in Chevron.

More abstracts should say "this paper seeks to make incremental progress on a longstanding question."

JUST IN: St John Henry Newman is to be declared a Doctor of the Church. Pope Leo XIV made the decision today, Holy See Press Office says. Title to be officially "conferred shortly"

On the mutiny by lower-court judges: nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opi…

Alicea contra constitutional "rights revisionists"--interesting set of disagreements, good points made by all parties. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Applies beyond law. Given the interconnectedness of things, it's unlikely you're advancing an idea nobody has ever thought about before. But given the complexity of intellectual work, it's unlikely anybody has made the *exact* point you're making, in the way you're making it. 1/

The Fed. Circuit heard argument today on the President’s IEEPA tariff authority. In academic work, I’ve explained how IEEPA gives the President tariff authority. Here is a quick🧵 responding to 5 arguments to the contrary.

Statutory interpretation dilemma: should the text of this rule be followed literally?

Interesting piece by John O. McGinnis on Columbia University's situation. wsj.com/opinion/columb…

One month to submit abstracts for Center for Law and the Human Person spring symposium--"On Law and Virtue." Elizabeth Kirk Early career scholars, please send us your ideas! humanperson.law.edu/events/now-we-…

Abstracting away from this specific dispute, the essence/accident division is something I've been thinking a lot about in the law's concepts. Legal essences seem more to me to be very much needed across the law. x.com/Vermeullarmine…

New on Legal Spirits: Mark Movsesian talks with Steven D. Smith about “the consent of the governed” and why it may no longer hold up in a secular, polarized America. Can our legal order survive the collapse of this civic myth? 🎧 Listen here: lawandreligionforum.org/2025/08/05/leg…

"Establishments of religion" are subsets of political establishments. Confirmation in this paper waxing lyrical about the "cohesion" that public education gives the country and the "unconstitutional forces" of school choice threatening it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A conversation with Prof. Lee Strang about the new civic-classical education centers popping up in universities across the country, one of which he directs at Ohio State. We cover a lot of territory--have a listen! Kevin C. Walsh 🇻🇦🇺🇸🧡 eburke humanperson.law.edu/on-the-new-civ…