- Mark Tushnet
Professor Chemerinsky's interesting article shows--sometimes expressly, more often indirectly--why periodization is one of the recurrent issues in historiography. His article blends an evaluation of Chief Justice Rehnquist's contributions to constitutional law with a more extended discussion of the changes in constitutional law that occurred during William Rehnquist's tenure as Chief Justice. In this comment I want to focus primarily on the second theme, though with some attention to the first.