For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of the…

- Alex Kozinski

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

- Alex Kozinski

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the …

- Alex Kozinski

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and…

- Alex Kozinski

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

- Alex Kozinski

The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be ver…

- Alex Kozinski

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like goin…

- Alex Kozinski

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likel…

- Alex Kozinski

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

- Alex Kozinski