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John Hart Ely, an innovative legal theorist and former Harvard professor whose ideas about constitutional interpretation widely influenced the discourse on democracy and the law over the past quarter century, died of cancer on Oct. 25 at his home in Coconut Grove, Fla. He was 64.
During his tenure at Harvard Law School (HLS), Ely served as the school’s first chair in constitutional law and wrote his most influential book, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review.
In the book, Ely (pronounced EE-lee) argued that judges cannot interpret the Constitution by its language and history alone, nor can they infer a code of morality from it. Instead, Ely said, judges have an obligation to protect the democratic process as laid out in the Constitution.
The road we raced on--93A from Wendover, in the state's northeast corner, south toward Ely--was smooth and well marked, with enough turns and hills to keep it challenging and still fast. I swept around curves at 95 m.p.h., took a moment to admire the Nevada mountains...
ELY GUERRA. Fusing pop, trip-hop and a variety of Latin American styles, Mexican singer-songwriter Ely Guerra forges her own eclectic, mature sound, topped by velvety vocals in Spanish which soar, smolder and seduce. Her Mexican record label, who didn’t know what to make of her...