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# 2016–2017 

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 2016–2017 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its sixteenth 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 

#### [Judicial Confirmations and the Rule of Law ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/judicial-confirmations-rule-law)

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

##### Introduction 

#### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/introduction)

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

##### Annuel Kenneth B. Simon Lecture 

#### [State Constitutions: Freedom’s Frontier ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/state-constitutions-freedoms-frontier)

By Clint Bolick 

##### First Amendment Challenges 

#### [Beyond Trademarks and Offense: *Tam* and the Justices’ Evolution on Free Speech ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/beyond-trademarks-offense-tam-justices-evolution-free-speech)

By Clay Calvert 

#### [Our Fellow American, the Registered Sex Offender ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/our-fellow-american-registered-sex-offender)

By David T. Goldberg and Emily R. Zhang 

##### Property, Religious and Secular 

#### [Religious Freedom and Recycled Tires: The Meaning and Implications of *Trinity Lutheran*](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/religious-freedom-recycled-tires-meaning-implications-trinity)

By Richard W. Garnett and Jackson C. Blais 

#### [From a Muddle to a Mudslide: *Murr v. Wisconsin*](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/muddle-mudslide-murr-v-wisconsin)

By Nicole Stelle Garnett 

##### Tricky Presidential Appointments 

#### [*S.W. General*: The Court Reins in Unilateral Appointments](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/sw-general-court-reins-unilateral-appointments)

By [Thomas A. Berry](https://www.cato.org/people/thomas-berry) 

##### Cash & Crime 

#### [*Salman v. U.S.*: Another Insider Trading Case, Another Round of Confusion](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/salman-v-us-another-insider-trading-case-another-round-confusion)

By [Thaya Brook Knight](https://www.cato.org/people/thaya-knight) 

#### [*Nelson v. Colorado*: New Life for an Old Idea?](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/nelson-v-colorado-new-life-old-idea)

By [David G. Post](https://www.cato.org/people/david-post) 

##### Credit & Labels 

#### [*Expressions Hair Design*: Detangling the Commercial-Free-Speech Knot](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/expressions-hair-design-detangling-commercial-free-speech-knot)

By Mark Chenoweth 

##### Next Year 

#### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2017 ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/looking-ahead-october-term-2017)

By Christopher Landau and Sopan Joshi 

##### Contributors 

#### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2016-2017/contributors)

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[2025–2026](/supreme-court-review/2025-2026)

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[2023–2024](/supreme-court-review/2023-2024)

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