The Health Care Case The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications

Part I Reflections on the Supreme Court's Decision
1 The Court Affirms the Social Contract
Jack M. Balkin
2 Who Won the Obamacare Case?
Randy E. Barnett
3 A Most Improbable 1787 Constitution: A (Mostly) Originalist Critique of the Constitutionality of the ACA
Richard A. Epstein
4 The June Surprises: Balls, Strikes, and the Fog of War
Charles Fried
5 Much Ado: The Potential Impact of the Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Affordable Care Act
Robert N. Weiner
Part II Lines of Argument: Commerce, Taxing and Spending, Necessary and Proper, and Due Process
6 The Missing Due Process Argument
Jamal Greene
7 <"Necessary,>" <"Proper,>" and Health Care Reform
Andrew Koppelman
8 The Presumption of Constitutionality and the Individual Mandate
Gillian E. Metzger and Trevor W. Morrison
9 The Individual Mandate and the Proper Meaning of <"Proper>"
Ilya Somin
Part III The Important Role of the Chief Justice
10 Judicial Minimalism, the Mandate, and Mr. Roberts
Jonathan H. Adler
11 Is it the Roberts Court?
Linda Greenhouse
12 More Law than Politics: The Chief, the <"Mandate,>" Legality, and Statesmanship
Neil S. Siegel
13 The Secret History of the Chief Justice's Obamacare Decision
John Fabian Witt
Part IV The Decision's Implications
14 Federalism by Waiver After the Health Care Case
Samuel R. Bagenstos
15 The Health Care Case in the Public Mind: Opinion on the Supreme Court and Health Reform in a Polarized Era
Andrea Louise Campbell and Nathaniel Persily
16 How Federalism Looks Now: Medicaid and the Nationalizing Effect of the Supreme Court's Old-Fashioned Federalism in Health Reform
Abbe R. Gluck
17 Constitutional Uncertainty and the Design of Social Insurance: Reflections on the ACA Case
Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw
18 The Affordable Care Act and the Constitution: Beyond National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
19 Medicaid's Next Fifty Years: Aligning an Old Program With the New Normal
Sarah Rosenbaum
20 Health Policy Devolution and the Institutional Hydraulics of the ACA
Theodore W. Ruger

Edited by Nathaniel Persily, Professor of Law and Political Science, Columbia University, Gillian E. Metzger, Professor of Law, Columbia University, and Trevor W. Morrison, Professor of Law, Columbia University

Nathaniel Persily is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Political Science at Columbia Law School. Gillian Metzger is the Vice Dean and Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Trevor Morrison is the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Contributors: 
Jonathan H. Adler is Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve School of Law.

Samuel R. Bagenstos is Professor of Law, Michigan Law School. 

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law. School 

Randy E. Barnett is Carmack Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center.

Andrea Louise Campbell is Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT. 

Richard A. Epstein is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University; the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, The University of Chicago. 

Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. 

Abbe R. Gluck is Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School. 

Michael J. Graetz is Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax law, Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law, Columbia Law School.

Jamal Greene is Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

Linda Greenhouse is Senior Research Scholar in Law, Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. 

Timothy Stoltzfust Jost is Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law, Washington and Lee Law School.

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Northwestern Law School. 

Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School. 

Sara Rosenbaum is J.D. Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor, Health Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. 

Theodore W. Ruger is Professor of Law, Penn Law. 

Neil S. Siegel is Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke Law School.

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School. He is the author of an amicus brief on behalf the Washington Legal Foundation and a group of constitutional law scholars in NFIB v. Sebelius, arguing that the mandate exceeded the scope of Congress' powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause because it was not <"proper.>" 

Robert N. Weiner is Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP. From 2010-2012, Mr. Weiner served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he oversaw the Government's defense of the health care litigation. 

John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School.