As the Supreme Court opens its October Term, the AEI Legal Center will host its annual review and preview of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 and 2008 Terms. As in prior years, a panel of distinguished experts and practitioners will discuss the key business cases, which constitute an ever-growing share...

Contemporary constitutional law is dominated by rights talk and rights cases. In this Bradley Lecture, Michael S. Greve urges a return to constitutional structure as the Supreme Court's principal focus and responsibility. "Return," because the Supreme Court of the late nineteenth century--the purest "structure court" in American history--aggressively deployed...

U.S. businesses increasingly are coming under scrutiny from antitrust regulators across the Atlantic. At the European Commission alone, cases have been filed or are pending against leading technology firms--including Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Rambus, and Microsoft--as well as some of the most successful pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Merck. Does...

The following address was delivered as part of a panel discussion on The Upside-Down Constitution. The discussion was hosted by AEI and The Federalist Society.

For most of the environmental era, business groups (seconded by many economists) criticized environmental regulation as overly centralized and rigid. Environmental advocates, for their part, insisted on tough national regulation as the only means of remedying pollution that crosses state boundaries and of preventing a "race to the bottom"...

This working paper provides a critical analysis of national policymaking by state attorneys general.

The growth and integration of national and global markets should make the world more competitive. Antitrust policy should become less important. Instead, globalization has produced the opposite result: a veritable antitrust proliferation.

In the United States, the Microsoft case has dramatized the increasingly aggressive antitrust role of state attorneys general. Abroad,...

In its Wyeth decision, the Supreme Court has gutted "federal preemption," one of the few remaining protections against state interference in the national economy.