In 2017, Martha Minow, then dean of Harvard Law School, said that she had “long wondered why we call the enterprise a law school and not a justice school.” It is a distinction well worth pondering.

When Justice Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court in 1986, I was in his first group of law clerks. Many conversations started out with the justice asking a clerk’s views on something or other.

On the day he was murdered, Bangladeshi geology professor Taher Ahmed interrupted his visit with his adult children in Dhaka, the nation's capital and largest city, to return to his university for an ...

During his long tenure on the Supreme Court, one phrase has become firmly linked to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement last week: “swing vote.” Especially after the retirement of ...

As the nation prepares for an epic fight and perhaps even a quasi-constitutional crisis over Antonin Scalia’s replacement on the U.S. Supreme Court, an awful lot of people have an awful lot of ...

Murder, rape and bribery are all crimes that everyone understands; what is meant by conspiracy is less obvious. ‘Lately, this age-old crime has become one that district attorneys find themselves ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson chose a judicial collar loaded with symbolism for the 2025 Inauguration. While Justice Jackson has yet to explain the exact meaning of her Inauguration ...