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This is in many ways a very difficult time to talk about broken or dysfunctional government because we face as serious a set of short-term and long- term challenges as…

The recent Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements highlight the importance of preventing unconstitutional government interference with disfavored speakers. Perversely, officials seeking to prevent such protests while evading viewpoint-…

Neither state nor federal laws adequately protect the mentally ill in Arizona. Although the Arizona Supreme Court ordered the state to establish a comprehensive mental health system in 1989, this…

In In re Estate of Riley, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that state probate law requires a compromise agreement that affects the distribution of an estate to be executed…

The Flemish painter, Pieter Bruegel, portrayed in his artwork men relieving themselves, cripples begging, and peasants toiling—as well as butchery and the gallows. In his masterful work, The Civilizing Process,…

On the occasion of Justice Harry Blackmun’s retirement, Justice Souter made the following remark: “I dissent!” On the occasion of Mary Anne Richey Professor Barbara Ann Atwood’s retirement, I likewise…

Contracts between spouses that alter the basic default rules of marital property and support are subject to widely varying legal standards across the United States. As with premarital contracts, the…