Pros in Con: NYU's constitutional law faculty is asking rigorous questions about how to live today within a 228-year-old framework for our laws and democracy

Constitutional law grapples with some of our most difficult—and consequential—legal, political, and social questions. The range and scope of these questions are extraordinary: individual rights; federalism and separation of powers; the limits of popular sovereignty; race and class; wartime exigencies; and voting, among others.