Areas of Interest

Constitutional Law

  • Illustration of a Larry Lessig in the foreground with pieces of the U.S. constitution behind him and over red, white and blue stripes

    Translating the Constitution with Fidelity

    January 7, 2020

    One new book by Lawrence Lessig explains a core virtue of the Supreme Court; a second explores America’s perilous politics—which put that virtue at serious risk

  • Menaka-Guruswamy

    For India, a New Era in LGBTQ Rights

    July 8, 2019

    Constitutional lawyer Menaka Guruswamy LL.M. ’01 successfully argued against a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex in India. The ruling by India's Supreme Court last year went beyond decriminalizing gay sex to acknowledge the individual rights of LGBTQ people and apologize for past mistreatment.