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Legal Theory Blog 

Thoughts about current developments in normative legal theory and jurisprudence.
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By Larry Solum
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Cheffins & Bank on Ownership and Control
Posted on March 10, 2009Brian R. Cheffins and Steven A. Bank (University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law) have posted Is Berle and Means Really a Myth? on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Berle and...
Milligan on Equal Access & the First Amendment
Posted on March 10, 2009Luke M. Milligan (University of Louisville School of Law) has posted Rethinking Press Rights of Equal Access (Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 1103, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The prevailing approach to First Amendment equal-access litigation,...
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and FitzGerald on Law & Urban Space
Posted on March 10, 2009Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Sharron A. FitzGerald (University of Westminster and Aberystwyth University) have posted From Space Immaterial: The Invisibility of the Lawscape (Griffith Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 438-453, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This article aims...
Conference Announcement: Conceptualizing Substantive Justice
Posted on March 10, 2009Call for Papers CONCEPTUALIZING SUBSTANTIVE JUSTICE Sturm College of Law, University of Denver April 17-18, 2009 Keynote speaker: Professor Adrien Wing, Assoc. Dean for Faculty Devel. & Bessie Dutton Murray Prof. of Law, Univ. of Iowa, on: ?Conceptualizing Substantive Justice:...
Reidy on Rawls's Religion
Posted on March 10, 2009David A. Reidy, J.D., Ph.D. (University of Tennessee - Department of Philosophy) has posted Rawls's Religion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this essay I discuss John Rawls's religious commitments as the developed over the course of his life...
Roark on Warranty Removal and Unauthorized Use
Posted on March 10, 2009Marc Lane Roark (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted Limitation of Sales Warranties as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Iphone Warranties' Deterrent Impact on Consumers on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Apple's success...
Legal Theory Lexicon: The Priority of the Particular
Posted on March 09, 2009IntroductionOne kind of legal theory attempts to relate the mass of legal materials (cases, clauses, statutes, etc.) to a systematic set of principles. Such theories may be normative: that is, some legal theories are frameworks for the prescriptive evaluation of...
Mazzone on the Supremacy of the Supreme Court
Posted on March 09, 2009Jason Mazzone (Brooklyn Law School) has posted When the Supreme Court is Not Supreme on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court is not always supreme. For much of this nation's history, this statement was true as a matter...
Heinze on Legitimacy in Literary Tradition
Posted on March 09, 2009Eric Heinze (Queen Mary, University of London - School of Law) has posted Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond (Law and Critique, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The Seventeenth...
Gedicks on Religious Truth, Pluralism, and Postmodernism
Posted on March 09, 2009Frederick Mark Gedicks (Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School) has posted Truth and Consequences: Mitt Romney, Proposition 8, and Public Reason on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although formal religious tests for federal office are constitutionally prohibited,...
Tyler on Judicial Supremacy
Posted on March 09, 2009David W. Tyler (College of William and Mary) has posted Clarifying Departmentalism: How the Framers' Vision of Judicial and Presidential Review Makes the Case for Deductive Judicial Supremacy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Few constitutional scholars would dispute the...
2009 Entry Level Hiring Report
Posted on March 08, 2009The 2009 Entry Level Hiring Report was last updated on March 8, 2009.Here is the first round of results from the 2009 Entry Level Hiring Report. The list of entry-level hires by school follows in the continuation of this post....
Legal Theory Bookworm
Posted on March 07, 2009The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment by Kurt T Lash. Here is a description: The most important aspect of The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment is its presentation of newly uncovered historical evidence...
Download of the Week
Posted on March 07, 2009The Download of the Week is Law as a Means by Leslie Green. Here is the abstract: This article defends legal instrumentalism, i.e. the thesis that law is distinguished among social institutions more by the means by which it serves...
Churchill Trial Blogging
Posted on March 06, 2009Jay Brown from the University of Denver writes: The Race to the Bottom is going to provide daily blogging of the trial of Ward Churchill, the CU Professor who made critical comments about the US in connection with 9/11. Information...
Benshalom on International Trade, International Tax, and Global Distributive Justice
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