The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and its Implications – A new book on last year’s controversial Supreme Court decision on Obamacare is now available for pre-order at Amazon. The book is edited by Columbia law professors Nathaniel Persily, Gillian Metzger, and Trevor Morrison, and published by Oxford University Press. It contains essays on numerous aspects of the health care decision by a wide range of scholars, including VC-ers Jonathan Adler, Randy Barnett, and myself. There is also a large number of contributions by leading scholars on the other side of the issue, including Jack Balkin, Jamal Greene, Andrew Koppelman, Gillian Metzger, and Neil Siegel, among others. The Oxford University Press website has a complete table of contents here.
My own contribution to the volume addresses the Court’s analysis of the Necessary and Proper Clause, and explains why the individual health insurance mandate was not “proper” even if it could be considered “necessary.” An earlier version of that essay is available on SSRN here.