• The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Drone Presidency

    By DAVID POZEN

    Review of Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law, by Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes

    September 30, 2015
  • Property and Politics

    By EDUARDO M. PEÑALVER

    Review of The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain, by Ilya Somin

    September 28, 2015
  • Not Infallible

    By ERIC J. SEGALL

    Review of An Introduction To The Constitution, by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen

    September 16, 2015
  • Affording Choice

    By RYAN D. DOERFLER

    Review of Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice, by Cass R. Sunstein

    August 31, 2015
  • Law, Naturally

    By JOHN C.P. GOLDBERG

    Review of Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice, by R. H. Helmholz

    August 26, 2015
    "Law, Naturally," by John C.P. Goldberg, review of Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice, by Richard H. Helmholz
  • Untouchable

    By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM

    Review of ANNIHILATION OF CASTE: The Annotated Critical Edition, by B. R. Ambedkar, edited and annotated by S. Anand

    August 19, 2015
    Annihilation of Caste, reviewed by Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Compliance on the Cheap

    By MITU GULATI

    Review of THE EXPRESSIVE POWERS OF LAW: Theories and Limits, by Richard McAdams

    August 10, 2015
    The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits, by Richard McAdams, reviewed by Mitu Gulati.
  • Crisis Lawyering

    By DAVID ZARING

    Review of TO THE EDGE: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis, by Philip Wallach

    August 03, 2015
    TO THE EDGE: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis, by Philip Wallach
  • Institutional Cures For Cognitive Ailments

    By N. W. BARBER

    Review of SECURITIES AGAINST MISRULE: Juries, Assemblies, Elections, by Jon Elster

    July 29, 2015
    Securities Against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections, by Jon Elster, reviewed by N.W. Barber
  • What Ails the City?

    By AZIZ HUQ

    Review of GHETTOSIDE: A True Story of Murder in American, by Jill Leovy and RENEGADE DREAMS: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago, by Laurence Ralph

    July 27, 2015
    GHETTOSIDE: A True Story of Murder in American, by Jill Loevy and RENEGADE DREAMS: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago, by Laurence Ralph, reviewed by Aziz Huq
  • What Is Regulatory Capture?

    By PHILIP WALLACH

    Review of PREVENTING REGULATORY CAPTURE: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, by Daniel Carpenter and David A. Moss, eds.

    July 22, 2015
    PREVENTING REGULATORY CAPTURE: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It
  • A Conscience in Hell

    By CHARLES FRIED

    Review of KONRAD MORGEN: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge, by Herlinde Pauer-Studer and J. David Velleman

    July 15, 2015
    David Fried reviews KONRAD MORGEN: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge, by Herlinde Pauer-Studer and Herlinde Pauer-Studer
  • Gaming the Laws of War

    By ADAM CHILTON

    Review of ORDER WITHIN ANARCHY: The Laws of War as An International Institution, by James D. Morrow

    July 01, 2015
    Order Within Anarchy by James D. Morrow
  • Social Change Litigation as Just Another Political Tool

    By SAMUEL R. BAGENSTOS

    Review of HOW POLICY SHAPES POLITICS: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle Over Injury Compensation, by Jeb Barnes and Thomas Burke

    June 24, 2015
    How Public Policy Shapes Politics book review
  • How Should Prosecutors Punish Corporate Criminals?

    By RICHARD H. MCADAMS

    Review of TOO BIG TO JAIL: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, by Brandon L. Garrett

    June 22, 2015
    Too Big To Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations
  • No Reason To Blame Liberals (Or, The Unbearable Lightness of Perversity Arguments)

    By MARGO SCHLANGER

    Review of THE FIRST CIVIL RIGHT: How Liberals Built Prison America, by Naomi Murakawa

    June 15, 2015
    Margo Schlanger reviews "The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America" by Naomi Murakawa.
  • Barney Frank's Rules of Order

    By PETER CONTI-BROWN

    Review of FRANK: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, by Barney Frank

    June 03, 2015
    Peter Conti-Brown reviews "FRANK" by Barney Frank
  • Politics by Other Means

    By CALVIN TERBEEK

    Review of JUDICIAL POLITICS IN POLARIZED TIMES, by Thomas M. Keck

    May 27, 2015
    Review of Judicial Politics in Polarized Times, by Thomas M. Keck
  • Ethics On The Run

    By STEVEN LUBET

    Review of ON THE RUN: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries), by Alice Goffman

    May 26, 2015
    Steven Lubet, reviews "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)," by Alice Goffman. The New Rambler Review is an online review of books edited by Eric Posner, Adrian Vermeule and Blakey Vermeule.
  • Empire Lite

    By MITU GULATI

    Review of THE EMPIRE TRAP: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas: 1893-2013, by Noel Maurer

    May 20, 2015
    Mitu Gulati reviews THE EMPIRE TRAP: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas: 1893-2013, by Noel Maurer