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ConLawNOW is an online legal journal supported by the Center for Constitutional Law, established by Congress at the University of Akron School of Law. It offers a venue for legal analysis of current issues of constitutional law happening now. The short essay format provides debate and analysis of legal issues of constitutional import in the headlines including pending Supreme Court cases, and events as they happen. ConLawNOW offers a quick turn-around time for publication designed to get authors’ insights into the public discourse where they can influence the debate.
For submissions, we welcome essays from academics, practitioners, and commentators in all types of scholarship including traditional legal analysis, history, debate, commentary, book reviews, or responses. Typical length of the articles is 10 published pages. Submissions are accepted via email at conlawjournal@uakron.edu, or by ExpressO or Scholastica.
The journal encourages dialogue and debate about constitutional law from all perspectives. The views and opinions expressed by individual authors do not necessarily reflect the views of The University of Akron or The University of Akron School of Law.
Recent Content
Volume 16
Volume 16, Issue 1 (2024)
Judicial Preferences and Aggrandizement Effects
Jason Marisam
Religious Accommodations for Educators: A Reexamination of Undue Burden in the Public School Classroom
Maggie L. Paino and Suzanne Eckes
Volume 15
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2023)
The New Intersectional and Anti-Racist LGBTQIA + Politics: Some Thoughts on the Path Ahead
Marc Spindelman
Response: The Constitution Has Never Recognized Us as Full Persons: Or to What Politics are Our "Protections" Returning?
Marlon M. Bailey
Book Review: Rearranging the Apple Cart: Good-Faith Originalism and the Fourteenth Amendment
Daniel Coble
Symposium: Gender, Health, and the Constitution: The New Gender Panic in Sport: Why State Laws Banning Transgender Athletes are Unconstitutional
Deborah L. Brake
Symposium; Gender, Health, and the Constitution: Hysteria Redux: Gaslighting in the Age of Covid
Jane Campbell Moriarty
Symposium: Gender, Health, and the Constitution: Reforming Clinical Trial Pregnancy Exclusions
Jennifer D. Oliva
Symposium: Gender, Health and the Constitution: More than Merely "Two-legged Wombs": Lessons on Metaphor and Body Politics from Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale (1985)
Rachel Conrad Bracken
Symposium: Gender, Health, and the Constitution: Gender-Affirming Care and Children's Liberty
Dara E. Purvis
Symposium: Gender, Health and the Constitution: The Misalignment of Medical Capacity and Legal Competence for Perinatal People with Serious Mental Illness
Melisa Olgun, Carlos Larrauri, Sonja Castaneda-Cudney, and Elyn Saks
The Story of New York Times v. Sullivan: How Free Speech Rights Were Intertwined with the Civil Rights Movement
Samantha Barbas
Symposium: Gender, Health & the Constitution: On the Constitutional Requirement for Adequate Prenatal Care Post-Dobbs
Ainslee Johnson-Brown
The Nineteenth Amendment and Dobbs
Paula A. Monopoli