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Category Archives: Law
Richard Posner’s Legal Pragmatism
John J. Mearsheimer’s anthropology and Richard Posner’s legal pragmatism represent opposing views of human nature and political decision-making. Mearsheimer’s anthropology argues that humans are “profoundly social beings” shaped by intense socialization, innate tribal sentiments, and strong attachments to their groups. … Continue reading
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Good Faith and Its Strangers: The Hero System of William Shernoff
A rung breaks on a ladder in Pomona, and a roofer falls twelve feet onto his back. His name is Michael Egan. He is a stout Irish immigrant who works on top of houses in the morning and carries his … Continue reading
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Adrian Vermeule and the Common Good
Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule (born May 2, 1968) is an American legal scholar and constitutional theorist who holds the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professorship of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. He came to wide notice as a scholar of … Continue reading
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Hans Kelsen and the Science of Law
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) was a principal architect of modern legal positivism and the most widely translated jurist of the twentieth century. He asked a question that sounds simple and resists every easy answer: what makes law law? He refused to … Continue reading
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Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine A. MacKinnon (b. 1946) changed American feminist legal theory more than any scholar of her generation. She works as a lawyer, an academic, and an activist, and across nearly five decades she has reshaped how courts, legislatures, and international … Continue reading
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Freedom and Authority: The Work of Christoph Bezemek
Christoph Bezemek (b. 1981) holds the chair of public law at the University of Graz, where he ranks among the leading figures in Austrian constitutional scholarship. His work moves across constitutional law, legal theory, political philosophy, comparative public law, and … Continue reading
James Boyd White & the Legal Imagination
James Boyd White (b. 1938) was a founder of the law-and-literature movement and ranks among the leading defenders of a humanistic conception of law in the second half of the twentieth century. His scholarship rests on a single sustained claim, … Continue reading
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The Hero System of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) held that every culture answers one question. What makes a life count once a man knows he will die? The answer arrives as a hero system, a scheme of significance that promises a place outlasting the body. … Continue reading
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Professional Moral Grammars in the United States
Work shapes my instinctive reactions because I have spent more of my adult life working than in any other activity. Everything I do affects me, and the length of time I spend in a setting approximates the amount of rewiring … Continue reading
The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture
Sacramento operates as the command center of the largest state government in the United States. Its legal culture reflects that role rather than any other industrial or commercial base. San Francisco built its bar around banking, technology, and venture capital. … Continue reading
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