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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits
Supreme Court tells lower courts to take new look at 2 major voting rights cases
Alex Votta, ’25, Recognized for Best Scholarly Work in Civil Rights for Paper on Education in the Civil War-Era South
5Qs: Niehoff’s New Book Looks at Shakespeare Through the Lens of the Law
Experts say high-profile Supreme Court shadow docket cases have increased, with major implications for Trump and the nation
Is Todd Blanche Already a Worse Attorney General Than Pam Bondi?
The Supreme Court Has Demolished the Voting Rights Act
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana congressional map
5Qs: Herzog’s New Book Discusses History of Reading Wars and Their Continuing Impact
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Clarence Thomas’ Radical Remarks Might Not Be What They Seemed
How a $75 billion windfall from Congress has insulated ICE
Primus On the Oldest Constitutional Question
SCOTUS Justices Skeptical With Trump’s Arguments for Axing Birthright Citizenship
What is Trump arguing about birthright citizenship?
DOJ Turns Clock Back to 1898 Case to Curb Birthright Citizenship
U-M Law Professor Discusses Supreme Court Case on Presidential Power Over Agencies
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
Expert Perspective: Interpreting the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause
Supreme Court Clashes Go Public as Shadow Docket Gets Exposed
Trump’s ‘Rogue Judges’ Rhetoric Breaches His Oath
The Ellisons are building a media empire. Trump keeps cheering them on.
In fight with DOJ over voting roll access, Michigan may be poised to go the distance
‘A subversion of the justice system’: DoJ shifts into Trump’s ‘political wing’ as criminal investigations accelerate
How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times
‘Containment’ with Professor Michelle Adams
Trump Banner Hung Outside DOJ Headquarters Prompts Outrage From Legal Observers
Handing defeats to Trump, Supreme Court signals potential course change
Book chronicles Supreme Court case limiting school integration in Detroit with nationwide impacts
Trump: Too busy to be a defendant but plenty of time to sue
A Century Ago, the U.S. Accepted Danish Control of Greenland. Here’s How.
The right to protest is more protected than you think
American Law Institute Elects Mortenson to Membership
Michelle Adams Earns More Accolades for Her Book The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
America 250: Native American Nations and the Making of the United States
Niehoff: Trump should leave the Insurrection Act alone
The SCOTUS hearing over Fed governor Lisa Cook is also about Fed independence
Leah Litman to talk about Roe v. Wade anniversary
13 new paperbacks to read this month
5Qs: Ratner Proposes New Approach to Reparations for Colonialism
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Insurrection Act
Niehoff: 2025 was a terrible year for free speech
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
Hotel dispute with Trump administration tests rarely cited constitutional rights
Trump’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela and Its Consequences
Waning Trust In DOJ Could Slow Federal Courts In 2026
Name a Supreme Court decision in the current term that will prove consequential.
Freedom of Expression, Public Opinion, and the Legal Battle Over Birthright Citizenship
Trump’s Failed US Attorney Push to Haunt Future Administrations
Trump seems to wave the white flag on his US attorneys gambit
Trump’s legal losing streak is forcing him to scramble before ‘the game is over’: report
Key Supreme Court Case Could Redefine FTC Independence
US presidency: weaponised Department of Justice investigations prompt concerns over independence
The Terrible, Anti-Democratic, Corrupt Conservative Majority of the Supreme Court Steps Up (Again) For King Trump
90 years ago, the Supreme Court limited who presidents can fire. Trump wants to reverse that.
Supreme Court will hear case on Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship
Trump fired this regulator. She’s fighting him to the Supreme Court.
Trump’s fight to redefine ‘American citizen’ returns to Supreme Court
Justice InDeed reveals racist covenants in Washtenaw County
5Qs: Noah Kazis Discusses the “Radical” Structure of the Fair Housing Act
The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices
The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency
How Jesse Jackson set the stage for today’s political landscape
New map shows thousands of Washtenaw County properties with racist restrictions
Uncharted Territory: Trump Files $230 Million Claim Accusing DOJ of Political Bias
Trump Demanding Money from the DOJ is a Big to Rewrite History
Rothschild Paper on Major Questions Doctrine Named Among Top Environmental Law Articles
US supreme court begins new term with nation’s democratic governance at stake
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Michelle Adams Wins Stone Book Award for The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Humphrey’s Executor’ Seems Sure to Fall After Weakening by Conservative Justices, Observers Say
Trump’s independent agency firings bombard Supreme Court
The Oldest Constitutional Question | Interview: Richard Primus
Tribes look to modernize the traditional practice of banishment
Four New Teaching Fellows Join Michigan Law Faculty
Texas vs. Chicago: Why Trump’s Next National Guard Gambit Is So Dangerous
Michigan Law to Host Top ACLU Lawyer for Constitution Day Observance
NRA Breaks With Trump on Potential Gun Ban for Trans Americans
Why the Supreme Court Is Not To Be Trusted
Leah Litman on the Grievance and Conspiracy Theories That Run SCOTUS
Interview on “The Oldest Constitutional Question”
Stateside: Aug. 7, 2025
The Oldest Constitutional Question
60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Trump’s tactics are bending the criminal justice system to his agenda
Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary
As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
Jimmy Hoffa’s family seeks closure 50 years after disappearance as O’Brien letter emerges
SCOTUS: Lower Courts Overstepped in Nationwide Injunction on Birthright Order
Stateside: July 22, 2025
Supreme Court Faces Heat After Unexplained Rulings for Trump
SCOTUS backs “executive lawlessness”
SCOTUS: The highest (and only) court
Supreme Court Order Creates Chaos for Federal Worker Litigation
Leah Litman’s New Book Examines Today’s Supreme Court
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L. Hart Wright Teaching Award Winner Michelle Adams Shares Five Lessons from Her Work
The Supreme Court case that ended the dream of racially integrated schools in America
5Qs: Leah Litman on SCOTUS and the Rise of the “New Substantive Due Process”
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Len Niehoff: To crown a king, kill the law
Detroit’s attempt to improve its schools was hamstrung by redlining
Students Create Digital Timeline Chronicling School Integration Efforts in Detroit
Edward S. Rogers, Trademark Law Pioneer and Michigan Law Alum, Gets New Attention from Professor Jessica Litman’s Book Chapter
The end of ‘serious efforts’ to integrate America’s schools
5Qs: Michelle Adams’s New Book, The Containment, Explores Landmark Detroit School Desegregation Case
How the Dream of School Integration Died
Elise Boddie Delivers 2024 Brown Lecture
Michigan Law Welcomes Two New Faculty Fellows, One Clinical Fellow
How a Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive
Alumni Study Ethics in Auschwitz Fellowship
100 Years of the Lawyers Club
Four Takeaways from Symposium Marking 20 Years of the Crawford Decision on the Confrontation Clause
Biennial Simpson Lecture Explores Different Connections between History and the Law
Richard Primus, Constitutional Law Professor
Program in Race, Law, and History Announces 2023-2024 Fellows
Novak’s Latest Book Earns Honor from American Historical Association
Novak’s Book Wins Political History Honor
Journal of the Civil War Era to Preserve Emancipation Scholarship
45th Anniversary Edition of The Legal Imagination Published
Michigan Law through the Years: A Faculty Perspective
Students Launch Michigan Journal of Law & Society
James Phillipp, ’66: Supporting Legal History and Scholarly Research
Civil Rights, Women’s Rights
A Royal Reception
The Memory of Detroit—and Beyond
Michael Harrison, ’66: Supporting Equal Opportunity Through the Program in Race, Law, and History
Two Pandemics, a Century Apart
Michigan Law Hires New Faculty Members
Historian and Legal Scholar Sam Erman Brings Race and Citizenship-focused Research to Michigan Law
Sanjukta Paul Brings Expertise on Antitrust and Labor to the Michigan Law Faculty
Prof. Niehoff’s Book, “Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates,” Published
5Qs: Novak on Modern Democracy
