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A Century of Constitutional Law. Systematically Analysed
The LSRC is conducting a comprehensive, case-by-case review of every Supreme Court decision from 1926 to 2026. The result will be the most complete private repository of constitutional and federal legal scholarship in the United States.
Priority Areas
Six Research Areas
Administrative Law & Regulation
The Court’s reshaping of the administrative state: Chevron deference, the major questions doctrine, and the future of agency authority.
Constitutional Structure
Separation of powers, federalism, and the structural architecture of American government under the current Court.
Civil Rights & Liberties
How the Court defines and limits individual rights — from equal protection to free exercise to the Second Amendment.
Federal Courts & Procedure
Jurisdiction, standing, the shadow docket, and the procedural rules that determine who can sue and when.
Economic & Regulatory Impact
Translating the Court’s decisions into market consequences for investors, corporations, and regulated industries.
Constitutional Theory
Interpretive frameworks: originalism, textualism, living constitutionalism, and the philosophical debates underneath.
Recent Publications
Working Papers & Articles
The Major Questions Doctrine After West Virginia v. EPA
Dr. Eleanor Vance, Prof. Marcus Reed
A comprehensive analysis of how the major questions doctrine is reshaping federal regulatory authority across energy, health, and financial markets.
Standing doctrine and the retreat of private enforcement
Prof. Aisha Patel
Examines the Court’s evolving standing jurisprudence and its practical effects on the ability of private parties to vindicate statutory rights.
Originalism and the Commerce Clause: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Dr. James Holloway
Traces the rise of originalist interpretation in Commerce Clause cases from Lopez through the present term, with implications for federalism.
LONG-TERM DELIVERABLES
What the Research Produces
The Lakinberg Encyclopedia of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (1926 to 2026)
The definitive private reference work on a century of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence. Available in print and digital format.
Searchable Online Legal Research Database
A digital research tool for lawyers, judges, scholars, and students, enabling search by case, doctrine, justice, constitutional provision, or statute.
Annual State of the Supreme Court Reports
Year-end publications identifying emerging jurisprudential trends, doctrinal shifts, and the practical implications of the current Term's decisions.
Constitutional Law Treatises
Practitioner-focused publications drawing on the full body of Supreme Court precedent in key areas of federal law.
Jurisprudence Maps
Visual representations of doctrinal evolution: how constitutional doctrine has developed, shifted, and sometimes reversed across a century of decisions.
AI-Powered Precedent Analysis Tools
Technology-assisted research capabilities enabling litigation teams and scholars to identify relevant precedent across the full database.
Our Methods
How we work.
The Center combines traditional doctrinal analysis with empirical legal studies, comparative jurisprudence, and original archival research.
Doctrinal Analysis
Close reading of opinions, concurrences, and dissents to map how legal rules evolve across terms and coalitions.
Empirical Legal Studies
Quantitative analysis of voting patterns, case outcomes, and the real-world effects of doctrinal shifts on regulated actors.
Comparative Jurisprudence
Situating U.S. Supreme Court doctrine within global constitutional traditions to illuminate distinctive features and shared pressures.
Archival Research
Working with the papers of justices and advocates to reconstruct the deliberative history of landmark decisions.
Access the full publications library.
Search hundreds of working papers, articles, and amicus filings by topic, justice, and term.
Browse the SCOTUS Index
Advancing understanding of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence and its impact on markets, governance, investment, and daily life.
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