Academic debates about the status of customary international law (CIL) have largely ignored an important aspect of the question: the presidential power to interpret CIL.

The trustees report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services out Monday uses strong language to describe the uncertainty of its predictions in both the short- and long-term for the medical insurance program aimed at America's seniors.

With 48.3 million people covered by Medicare in 2011 -- and...

This question lies at the heart of the intense recent debates over judicial nominations, and could have important implications for public policy. Some argue that the Constitution should always mean what the Founding Fathers intended. The problem with this view is that it could lead to results that many...

The day after the 2004 election, AEI's Election Watch team analyzed the presidential race, the other contests of national significance, and the voting trends that led to Republican gains.

Written by a leading advocate of executive power and a fellow Constitutional scholar, "Taming Globalization" promises to spark widespread debate.

Join the Federalist Society and AEI for a panel discussion of John Yoo and Julian Ku's new book, where Martin Flaherty of the Fordham University School of Law and Jeremy Rabkin of the George Mason University School of Law will join the authors in a discussion of their proposals and whether they are faithful to our Constitution, our history and our international law obligations.

The entire Republican presidential candidate field has shared one common defect from the start; none of them talk with any serious depth about what used to be close to the center of many presidential campaigns in times of tumult: how we should interpret the Constitution.

Timothy Geithner will go to great lengths to avoid missing a payment of interest or principal on the debt. But, to honor that constitutional precedent, he may have to break (or, more charitably, to interpret generously) some laws.