Constitutional Law: Freedom of Press: Validity of Motion Picture Licensing Statute

Constitutional law--freedom of the press--prohibition of abortion referral service advertising held unconstitutional.

Freedom and choice in constitutional law.

The constitutional rights of children, the mentally ill, and other legally incompetent persons have been the subject of much litigation in the past twenty years. In this Article, Professor Garvey develops a general theory to explain the different ways in which persons of diminished capacity can be said to enjoy constitutional protections. He first notes that, of the various constitutional provi...

Constitutional Law: Supreme Court Holds Pennsylvania Statute Imposing Costs on an Acquitted Defendant Void for Vagueness

In sustaining the defendant's vagueness challenge, the Supreme Court rejected the State's contention that since the statute was "civil" in character, it did not have to meet the due process standard of certainty required of criminal statutes. The Court's language is susceptible of varying interpretations which, in turn, give rise to possibilities for novel applications of the void-forvagueness ...

Constitutional Law

The Canons of Constitutional Law

Academic and political debates about what texts are canonical in the liberal arts have been occurring for some time. In this Commentary, Professors Balkin and Levinson discuss canons and canonicity in the study of law in general and of constitutional law in particular. Canons, they contend, are not simply collections of texts. Skills, approaches, forms of argument, standard examples, and even s...