University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2025

In Search of a State

By Maeve Glass. Amidst a project to transform land into waterways and cotton into cloth, Federalist elites carefully fashioned a bespoke rule of state protest that could keep New England’s merchant ships and cotton spindles in motion.

The “War on Drugs” and the Narrowing of Constitutional Imagination

By Aziz Rana. Books like The Constitution of the War on Drugs offer one model for how to break the effective monopoly judges enjoy over constitutional politics, by underscoring the narrowness of judicial imagination.

Pozen and the Puzzle of Counterfactuals

Pozen’s book surfaces hard questions about historical contingency and the scope of the change that might have occurred in a counterfactual world.

The Constitution of the War on Abortion

By Kate Shaw (Coming Soon).