Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Tracy Thomas
- Editors
- Mike Gentithes, Jonathan Moore, Charlie Oldfield, Sean Steward
ConLawNOW is a faculty edited 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 about 10 published pages (5000 words). Submissions are accepted via email at conlawjournal@uakron.edu or via Scholastica.
Special CFP Summer Symposium: SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025 (Due 8/25/25).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 editors or The University of Akron School of Law.
Recent Content
Volume 17
Volume 17, Issue 1 (2025): Symposium, SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases
Personal Jurisdiction and the Fifth Amendment
Scott Dodson
Book Review: Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique
Timothy Smith
Fundamental Fairness Guides the Supreme Court's Criminal Justice Decisions in the 2024-2025 Term
Sharon R. Fairley
Volume 17, Issue 2 (2025)
Stare Decisis After The Rejection of Lockstepping in State Constitutional Law: An Ohio Perspective
Jonathan L. Entin
Book Review: Robert J. Jarvis, The Neglected Amendments of the U.S. Constitution: Text, History, and Interpretation
Jonathan E. Moore
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
Is Wisconsin v. Yoder Limited to Its Facts?
Chad Flanders
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025): Symposium, "Women's Leadership in Law and Politics."
Making Their Mark: Women Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Laura P. Moyer, John Szmer, Susan Haire, and Robert Christensen
Women Judges and Wikipedia
Sally Kenney
Pipelines & Presidential Candidates: The Dynamics of Women Running for Public Office in Ohio
Irene Jayapandian and Barbara Palmer
Is There a Gender Gap in Campaign Spending Strategies?
Paul S. Herrnson, Charles Hunt, and Jaclyn Kettler
Project 2025 and Due Process After Dobbs
Tracy Turner
Black Women are Supreme: An Empirical Examination of Black Women's Evaluations of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Christine M. Slaughter, Camille Burge-Hicks, and Nadia E. Brown
Echoes of Exclusion: The Underrepresentation of Women in Congressional Testimony and Its Consequences for Judicial Decision-Making
Caroline L. Bruckner, Elizabeth Keith, Karen O'Connor, and Collin A. Coil
The Embodied Nature of Representation: Reframing "Best Candidate" Narratives in Supreme Court Nominations
Susan Tanner
It's Not About Children: How Gender Resentment Shapes Public Opinion on Abortion in the United States
Nicole Kalaf-Hughes and Debra Leiter