Abstract
The editors of Constitutional Studies are very pleased to present this special issue as a Festschrift honoring the scholarly contributions of Ronald Kahn. In an active and ongoing career beginning in the 1970s Kahn has established himself as a strong and at times professionally lonely voice in political science advocating a focus on the content of legal decision-making as well as on the political contexts in which decisions took place. During a period when the discipline of political science as it applied to law and courts seemed relentlessly focused on the project of reducing jurisprudence to the expression of quantifiable policy preferences, Kahn’s work reminded readers and practitioners of the elements of doctrine, narrative, and judgment that ultimately defined the lasting significance of rulings.