"Not the judge, not the Pope, not the moneyed, only women decide! Free, accessible abortion and contraception," poster, 1970.

The Supreme Court wasn’t always the final arbiter of the Constitution washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Nice mention of Joseph Fishkin and Willy Forbath in b-boy bouiebaisse’s latest. nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opi…

After the election dust settles, a few certainties: 1. We'll still have a right-wing Supreme Court bound and determined to shift U.S. political economy in a more oligarchic, less democratic direction, much like the Court of 100 years ago.

📣THIS FRIDAY: "Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy," at Georgetown Law and hosted by American Constitution Society, a conference "Spurred by the publication of Joseph Fishkin & Willy Forbath's book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution." Free; registration required: acslaw.org/event/reviving…

Adam Smith has more in common with Bertolt Brecht than you might think. The first of a two-parter (on Smith and Keynes) in the The New York Review of Books. nybooks.com/articles/2022/…

🎉 The 2022 Books of the Year | The Future of Constitutionalism 📚

🙌Two Texas Law scholars made Lawrence Solum's "Best Of" lists for 2022. Willy Forbath's The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, w Joseph Fishkin, was a "Favorite Book," Tara Leigh Grove's The Misunderstood History of Textualism was a "Favorite Article." 1/2 The book 👉 anti-oligarchy.com

Dealing with an inscrutable text.

I've got a review of Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's Tyranny of the Minority, paired with Joseph Fishkin and Willy Forbath's The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, coming out this week. Watch this space.

How Do We Survive the Constitution? | The New Yorker newyorker.com/books/under-re…

Wonderful words about Willy Forbath and Joseph Fishkin (UCLA School of Law) and The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution in The New Yorker 👇

Protecting the wealthy from taxation is at odds with the fundamentals of originalism which many Supreme Court justices hold. Important amicus brief in the Moore tax case, by constitutional law professors @BAckermanYale Willy Forbath @JoeyFishkin h/t Steve Rosenthal balkin.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-or…

“Sexe, amour et féminisme” ou les aventures épistolaires de Simone de Beauvoir Tiphaine_Martin VADMC claudine monteil QuiAPeurDuFéminisme Les Agiteuses Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand BUAngers telerama.fr/livre/sexe-amo… (Abonné.e.s)

In recent weeks, numerous employees have been terminated after engaging in Palestinian rights advocacy. Together with some colleagues with relevant expertise, I wrote a memo on the legal implications. Bottom line: such actions may violate federal law. drive.google.com/file/d/1GxMyCz…

I'm delighted that Stanford Law Review Online will publish my essay with Leah Butterfield, Abortion Pills Are Here to Stay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 🧵

Will the Supreme Court ignore what the Constitution (and the 16th Amendment) actually say and extend special tax protections to the very, very rich? Check out this excellent piece by ⁦Joseph Fishkin⁩ & ⁦Willy Forbath⁩. nytimes.com/2023/12/10/opi…

In a case about taxes and the wealthy, the conservative Supreme Court justices should practice the originalism they preach and listen to the framers and ratifiers of the 16th Amendment, say Joseph Fishkin and Willy Forbath. Read: nyti.ms/481RdUK

LPE is running a Symposium on Aziz Rana’s great new book. Here’s my post. lpeproject.org/blog/constitut…

Renowned labor organizer Jane McAlevey (Jane McAlevey) says the UAW's success in unionizing a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee was "a beatdown" of management. A bigger test, she says, will be whether workers can do the same at Mercedes in Alabama.