Daryl J. Levinson
Article
Rights and Votes
121 Yale L.J. 1286.
This Article explores the functional similarities, residual differences, and interrelationships between rights and votes, both conceived as tools for protecting minorities (or other vulnerable groups) from the tyranny of majorities (or other dominant social and political actors). …
Article
Framing Transactions in Constitutional Law
111 Yale L.J. 1311 (2002)
Common-law rules and adjudication are typically structured around discrete interactions between strangers. The unit of legal analysis, or "transaction," is intuitively defined by the discontinuous event that disrupted the otherwise unrelated lives of the parties; and the foc…