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# 2015–2016 

Edited by [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) 

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, Ilya Shapiro and leading legal scholars analyze the 2015–2016 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its fifteenth edition, the *Review* is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term’s end and the only one grounded in the nation’s first principles, liberty, and limited government.

##### Foreword 

#### [Justice Scalia’s Originalism: Original or Post-New Deal? ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/justice-scalias-originalism-original-or-post-new-deal)

By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) 

##### Introduction 

#### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/introduction)

By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) 

##### Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture 

#### [On Originalism and Liberty ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/originalism-liberty)

By Steven G. Calabresi 

##### Civil Rights? 

#### [Race Discrimination Rationalized Again ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/race-discrimination-rationalized-again)

By Peter N. Kirsanow 

#### [*United States v. Texas* (Scalia, J., concurring)](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/united-states-v-texas-scalia-j-concurring)

By [Josh Blackman](https://www.cato.org/people/josh-blackman) 

#### [*Evenwel v. Abbott*: Destroying Electoral Equality and Eroding “One Person, One Vote”](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/evenwel-v-abbott-destroying-electoral-equality-eroding-one-person)

By Hans von Spakovsky 

##### Healthcare, Religion, Abortion, Oh My 

#### [Fool Me Twice: *Zubik v. Burwell* and the Perils of Judicial Faith in Government Claims ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/fool-me-twice-zubik-v-burwell-perils-judicial-faith-government)

By Mark L. Rienzi 

#### [*Whole Woman’s Health* and the Supreme Court’s Kaleidoscopic Review of Constitutional Rights](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/whole-womans-health-supreme-courts-kaleidoscopic-review)

By Elizabeth Price Foley 

##### Criminalizing Property 

#### [Tawdry or Corrupt? *McDonnell* Fails to Draw a Clear Line for Federal Prosecution of State Officials ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/tawdry-or-corrupt-mcdonnell-fails-draw-clear-line-federal)

By [Harvey A. Silverglate](https://www.cato.org/people/harvey-silverglate) and Emma Quinn-Judge 

#### [Defense Lawyers Will Fight All the Way to the Supreme Court to Protect Their Clients’ Right to Pay Them ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/defense-lawyers-will-fight-all-way-supreme-court-protect-their)

By Terrance G. Reed and Howard Srebnick 

#### [Advancing Judicial Review of Wetlands and Property Rights Determinations: *Army Corps v. Hawkes Co.*](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/advancing-judicial-review-wetlands-property-rights-determinations)

By Steven J. Eagle 

##### Serious Business 

#### [Litigation Matters: The Curious Case of *Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo*](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/litigation-matters-curious-case-tyson-foods-v-bouaphakeo)

By Andrew J. Trask 

##### The Year to Come 

#### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2016 ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/looking-ahead-october-term-2016)

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds 

##### Contributors 

#### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2015-2016/contributors)

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