From tariffs to transgender athletes, the nation's highest court has a docket full of hot-button issues, writes University of Illinois law Professor Jason Mazzone.

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When President Donald Trump resurrected the Department of War, the former and once again name for the Department of Defense, it was more than a simple name change. It was an intentional rebranding of the department, meant to convey a message to the public and those who serve in the armed forces.

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In this two-part series of columns, Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the Trump administration’s increasing domestic use of military personnel—particularly military attorneys (JAGs)—to enforce civilian law, highlighting legal concerns surrounding the Posse Comitatus Act. Professors Wexler and Ghiotto argue in Part I that while the use of JAGs as prosecutors and immigration judges may technically be lawful under limited congressional exceptions, it undermines civil-military boundaries and raises serious constitutional and due process concerns.

Juries now decide only a tiny share of civil and criminal trials in the US – and that hurts democracy.

UC Davis Law professor Vikram David Amar and Illinois Law professor Jason Mazzone examine President Trump’s executive order instructing the Department of Justice to prioritize prosecuting flag burning under existing content-neutral laws and considers the constitutional implications under First Amendment jurisprudence. Professors Amar and Mazzone argue that while the executive order nominally adheres to constitutional constraints, it potentially raises serious free speech concerns by targeting specific expressive conduct—flag desecration—for prosecution based on its political message, and exposes the lack of clarity and consistency in the Supreme Court’s First Amendment doctrine.

In a new opinion article published by Bloomberg, Professors Sean Anderson and Robert Lawless explain why they believe the Trump administration's decision to allow workers to invest retirement savings in cryptocurrency and private equity is a bad decision for the workers. "There is no reason to expect that inviting plans…

We kick off season two with an engrossing conversation with Professor Robert Lawless about his new book, Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy. The book ...

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As most folks paying attention this year appreciate, President Donald Trump has been issuing Executive Orders that, taken as a whole, seem unprecedented

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