“Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor; the hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and to posterity, is now called […]

The last term of the United States Supreme Court was one of the most eventful in recent history. But besides the particular holdings of the Court, what may be even more significant is the Court’s embrace of history as a prime method of interpreting Constitutional Law. Matthew Hebebrand, Assistant Editor of the Your Witness blog,

Gouverneur Morris, one of the lesser known but significant founders of the country is known as the author of the renowned preamble of the United States Constitution.  But there was more to Morris than style.  Here, the Honorable John K. Bush, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, provides a fascinating

Steven R. Smith, Dean Emeritus, California Western School of Law, was Dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law from 1988-1996. A nationally regarded authority on legal education, Dean Smith here offers advice on how law school faculties can contend with the revolutionary changes in the content and delivery of legal services now affecting the profession

In 1997, Louise F. Mooney, then Communications Director of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, penned an elegant history of the John Marshall School of Law, one of the predecessors of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. On the basis of recent research, Professor David F. Forte adds to the events surrounding the founding of the John

What counts for the success of Asian American students in higher education? Cleveland-Marshall Professor Reginald Oh discounts the suits by Asian Americans against affirmative action as having any real bearing on the difficulties facing Asian Americans, though other institutional discriminations do exist. Instead, Professor Oh directs his analysis to the pressures placed upon these students

On June 15, 2020, in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts protects employees from discrimination because they may be gay or transgender. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion was an exercise in a textual interpretation of the statute’s language. His opinion has engendered serious

In an era when the validity of elections is vigorously disputed, Professor David Forte reminds us of how America’s tradition of a “peaceful transition” began. Professor Forte … your witness I On January 6, 2021, Americans stared at their television screens in disbelief as rioters besieged the Capitol Building where within, the electoral votes for

If there be a “Dean” of First Amendment studies, it has to be Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law, at The University of Chicago. Author and editor of dozens of articles, monographs, and casebooks on freedom of speech and other fundamental rights, Professor Stone was also the prime mover of The

The Supreme Court’s evolving criminal law jurisprudence always reveals the developing criminal law perspectives of individual justices as well.  Here, Cleveland-Marshall’s Associate Dean and Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich opens up for us the rich and sometimes surprising results of the Court’s 2020 October term. Professor Witmer-Rich, … your witness The Supreme Court’s 2020 October Term started