I'm delighted to report that Prof. Anuj Desai of the University of Wisconsin Law School will be guest-blogging this week about his articles The Transformation of Statutes into Constitutional Law: How Early Post Office Policy Shaped Modern First Amendment Doctrine, 58 Hastings L.J. 671 (2007) and Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy, 60 Stan. L. Rev. 553 (2007).

I had read the two pieces and found them to be fascinating and eye-opening stories about how the legislatively defined structure of a particular institution -- the post office -- has influenced the development of judge-made constitutional doctrine. I then asked Prof. Desai whether he might guest-blog about the articles, and he graciously agreed. I'm much looking forward to his visit.