Legal Theory Blog: Academic

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Academic Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Academic

Legal Theory Blog

Thoughts about current developments in normative legal theory and jurisprudence.
By Larry Solum

Post Frequency: 67.6/day

Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 13:55:00

Robinson on Moral Holism

Posted on April 03, 2008
Luke Robinson has posted Moral Holism, the Additive Fallacy, and the ?Atomistic? Model on the Internet. Here is the abstract: The ?atomistic? model can model the intuitions that motivate both moral holism?the view that moral valence is variable?and Shelley Kagan?s...

Voyce on Legal Pluralism in Ancient India

Posted on April 03, 2008
Malcolm Voyce (Macquarie University - Division of Law) has posted The Vinaya and the Dharma??stra: Monastic Law and Legal Pluralism in Ancient India (Journal of Legal Pluralism, Vol. 56, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article outlines the....

Book Announcement: Patent Failure by Bessen & Meuer

Posted on April 03, 2008
Patent Failure How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8634.html In the last several years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors...

Issacharoff on Constitutional Settlement

Posted on April 02, 2008
Samuel Issacharoff (New York University School of Law) has posted Meriwether Lewis, the Air Force, and the Surge: The Problem of Constitutional Settlement (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay, presented as the...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Bandes on Victims & Emotion

Posted on April 02, 2008
Susan A. Bandes (DePaul University - College of Law) has posted Victims, 'Closure', and the Sociology of Emotion (Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The concept of closure, almost unknown two decades ago, has had...

Peritz on the Roberts Court, Antitrust & IP

Posted on April 02, 2008
Rudolph J.R. Peritz (New York Law School) has posted The Roberts Court after Two Years: Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and Competition Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has rendered only one...

Prebble on Autopoiesis & Tax

Posted on April 02, 2008
John Prebble (Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law) has posted Justice Hill and the Autopoiesis of Income Tax Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The theory that law may best be understood as an autopoietic system has...

Book Announcement: Law as Culture by Rosen

Posted on April 02, 2008
Law as Culture An Invitation Lawrence Rosen To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8179.html Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with strange rules and stranger language, law...

Leonard on Bias

Posted on April 02, 2008
Adam Leonard has a nice post entitled Explaining Bias on Brains. Here is an excerpt: The ability of fMRI scans to detect which modules of the brain are active during cognitive processes provides a crude, but nonetheless revealing window into...

Solum on Legal Personhood

Posted on April 02, 2008
Lawrence B. Solum (University of Illinois - College of Law) has posted Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligences (North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 1231) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Could an artificial intelligence become a legal person? As...

Gersen & Posner on Soft Law

Posted on April 02, 2008
Jacob Gersen & Eric Posner have posted Soft Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Soft law consist of rules issued by law-making bodies that do not comply with procedural formalities necessary to give the rules legal status yet nonetheless...

2008 Entry Level Hiring Report: Version 4.0

Posted on April 02, 2008
Here is Version 4.0 of the 2008 Entry Level Hiring Report, including new reports from Boston College, Catholic, Drexel Emory, George Mason University, Harvard University, Indiana-Indianapolis, John Marshall (Atlanta); Louisiana State University, Mercer University; Rutgers-Camden, Samford University, Texas Tech, Texas...

Ayres on Strategic Self Motivation for Reduction in Caloric Intake

Posted on April 01, 2008
Ian Ayres (Yale) has posted Strategic Self Motivation for Reduction in Caloric Intake on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Back when I was an undergraduate, I took a class from the future Nobel Laureate Tom Schelling. One day in class,...

Sunstein & Vermeule on Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpable Behaviors

Posted on April 01, 2008
Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have posted Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpapble Behaviors on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Relatively unsophisticated analysis of the problem of unrestricted interrogation of minors who have not...

Shapiro on Totally Exclusive Positivism

Posted on April 01, 2008
Scott Shapiro has posted Totally Exclusive Positivism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent controversies among inclusive and exclusive legal positivists have focused on the question whether the social facts that determine legal content can incorporate moral norms...

Tribe on the Agency Theory of the Supreme Court

Posted on April 01, 2008
Lawrence Tribe (Harvard University) has posted Of Agents and Principals: A New Theory of the Supreme Court: Recent work at the intersection of Positive Political Theory and Law has provided a powerful case for viewing the process of statutory interpretation...

Six by Bebchuk

Posted on April 01, 2008
Yesterday, Lucien Bebchuk (Harvard) uploaded six new papers to SSRN: Toward Undistorted Choice and Equal Treatment in Corporate Takeovers (forthcoming Yale Law Journal): This paper proposes two objectives - undistorted choice and equal treatment - for the legal rules governing...

Griffin on Hard Core Living Constitutionalism

Posted on April 01, 2008
Stephen Griffin has a post entitled Hard Core Living Constitutionalism on Balkinization. Here is a taste: Hard core living constitutionalism means the Constitution and constitutional change should be described, explained, interpreted, and justified in a fully historicized way...

Balkin's Advice for Judges

Posted on April 01, 2008
The fifth in Balkin's recent series of posts on constitutional theory is entitled My Advice to Judges (for What it's Worth). Here's a taste, the seventh of ten principles that Balkin enumerates: When in the exercise of your best judgment,...

Legal Theory Lexicon: Speech Acts

Posted on March 31, 2008
Introduction Speech act theory will forever be associated with the great J. L. Austin, the Oxford philosopher whose work in the 1950s had an enormous influence on analytic philosophy. One of Austin's core insights is reflected in the title of...

Halfteck on Legislative Threats

Posted on March 31, 2008
Guy Halfteck (Harvard University - John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business) has posted Legislative Threats (Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article introduces a theory of legislative threats, which not...

Magliocca on the Guarantee Clause & Assassination

Posted on March 31, 2008
Gerard N. Magliocca (Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis) has posted Huey P. Long and the Guarantee Clause: Transformation by Assassination (Tulane Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article contends that the assassination of Huey...

Richards on Intellectual Privacy

Posted on March 31, 2008
Neil M. Richards (Washington University School of Law) has posted Intellectual Privacy (Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, December 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper is about intellectual privacy - the protection of records of our...

Re on Booker

Posted on March 31, 2008
Richard M. Re (Yale Law School) has posted Re-Conceptualizing Booker: How to Stop Legislatures from Circumventing the Right to Jury Trial on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay offers a new, comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's recent Sixth...

Myers on a Criminal Sunset Amendment

Posted on March 31, 2008
Richard Myers (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - School of Law) has posted Responding to the Time-Based Failures of the Criminal Law Through a Criminal Sunset Amendment (Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Alm on Contractualism and the Duties of Compensation & Reciprocity

Posted on March 31, 2008
David Alm has posted Contractualism, Reciprocity, Compensation on the Internet. Here is a taste: TWO GENERALLY RECOGNIZED moral duties are to reciprocate benefits one has received from others and to compensate harms one has done to others. In this paper...

New Fellowship Program at Illinois

Posted on March 31, 2008
I am very happy to announce that the University of Illinois College of Law has just established a new fellowship program that provides a low-teaching load visiting-assistant-professor experience in combination with substantial research support. Here are the details from the...

Seminar Announcement: Dworkin at NYU

Posted on March 31, 2008
To honor the laureate of the Holberg Prize for 2007, NYU School of Law will host a seminar focusing on themes central to the work of Professor Ronald Dworkin. Professor Dworkin will comment on each of the following presentations: 10:00...

Legal Theory Bookworm

Posted on March 29, 2008
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner. Here is a description: A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling....

Download of the Week

Posted on March 29, 2008
The Download of the Week is Objectivism and Relational Good by Connie S. Rosati. Here is the abstract: In his critique of egoism as a doctrine of ends, G. E. Moore famously challenges the idea that something can be ?good...

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

Update on AILF's Legal Action Center Visa Bulletin Litigation (Updated 7/10/07)
The following is the latest update from AILF regarding its pening ...

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center Legislative Forecast
The ILRC Forecast on Immigration ReformJudith Golub, Executive Dir...

The Christian Legal Society and "discrimation": Response to Susan
In response to Susan's post, I'm inclined to think that, yes, the ...

Stacy Scnheider Legal Commentator Apprentice

New Jersey Legal Update - Podcast # 57
This week's New Jersey Legal Update podcast will address federal l...