Thursday, June 1, 2023

Glass on the Slaughter-House Cases

Killing Precedent: The Salughter-House Constitution, an essay by Maeve Glass, Columbia Law School, is out in the Columbia Law Review

This Essay offers a revisionist account of the Slaughter-House Cases. It argues that the opinion’s primary significance lies not in its gutting of the Privileges or Immunities Clause but in its omission of a people’s archive of slavery.

--Dan Ernst