The Yale Law Journal

Frederick Schauer

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Constitutions of Hope and Fear

Frederick Schauer

Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution BY ROBERT C. POST CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014, PP. 264. $29.95. author. David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia. I am gra…

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The Best Laid Plans

Frederick Schauer

120 Yale L.J. 586 (2010). 

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Is It Important To Be Important?: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s Case-Selection Process

Frederick Schauer

As the output of the Supreme Court shrinks, from about 150 cases per Term decided with full opinions in the mid-1980s to about seventy now, concern has grown over whether the Court is deciding too few cases and consequently leaving too many important cases and issues undecided. The extent to which t…