The U.S. Supreme Court's new term is here, offering new opportunities for the justices to remake our constitutional rights in the name of history. In its last two terms alone, the court did just that ...

Not so long ago, originalism seemed safely contained. Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, but when ...

Students and the Yale Law School community gathered in the Sterling law building Friday to discuss a recent book by Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 — the second volume in the law scholar’s trilogy about the ...

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled that some history textbooks in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, used to teach pupils about the 1990s war, are ethnically biased ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified following vigorous national debate on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791. Their passage came ...

“The Constitution which we now present,” George Washington wrote in 1787 after completing his duties as the presiding officer over the Constitutional Convention, “is the result of a spirit of amity, ...

Something like the idea animating The Collective-Action Constitution—or a narrower, more implicit, and more intuitive version of it—has been around for a long time and has been articulated in many ...