Publication Date
8-30-2026
Abstract
On November 6 and 7, 2025, the Northwestern University Law Review, along with the Brennan Center for Justice and State Court Report, convened for its annual symposium, titled The Power of State Constitutional Rights. The symposium brought together judges, practitioners, and scholars to consider the substantive rights protected by state constitutions, the institutions charged with enforcing them, and the democratic processes through which state constitutional law changes. Across conversations about reproductive freedom, criminal procedure, labor, economic liberty, LGBTQ+ rights, voting, federalism, and judicial design, one proposition repeatedly, and emphatically, came into view: American constitutional law is not exhausted by the United States Constitution.
Recommended Citation
Misha Bogdanov and Olivia Christ,
Foreword: Fifty-One Constitutions in an Evolving Federal Order,
121
Nw. U. L. Rev.
1
(2026).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol121/iss1/1
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