Is global governance fundamentally different from earlier forms of international cooperation? Is it a necessary response to the effects of globalization? Does the U.S. Constitution limit the ways the United States can engage in global governance? The AEI Project on Sovereignty will explore the effects of globalization on international law, institutions and the Constitution. 

In the wake of 9/11, the George W. Bush administration has gone to great lengths to protect the United States from terrorist attacks, instituting certain controversial policies that critics have decried as violations of domestic and international laws. From wiretapping to coercive interrogation of suspected terrorists, the administration’s actions have...

The deeper problem is that no version of a fiscal union can save Europe or the euro. The principal authority for this proposition is Alexander Hamilton.

In the span of a generation, conservative intellectuals and activists have succeeded in mounting a potent challenge to liberal legal theories that once held unquestioned sway over America’s courts and law schools. They have built a robust infrastructure of legal advocacy groups, think tanks, and networking organizations that have shifted...

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...

The American system of federalism is at the heart of many disagreements over important constitutional and public policy issues. Changes in all three branches of government and recent Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the future scope of federal-state relationships: How should we balance state and federal rights? Should the...

The antitrust consent decree is a major weapon used by the federal government to enforce antitrust laws. In the past, consent decrees have been wielded aggressively to dissolve major corporations and to change the business practices of entire industries. In his new book Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice...