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Category Archives: Law
Principles on Schedule: Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-Warren Court Coalition
Erwin Chemerinsky was born May 14, 1953, in Chicago. He grew up in a working-class Jewish family on the South Side. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for high school, then Northwestern, where he earned a BS in … Continue reading
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The Long Argument of Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano was born in Newark in 1950 to an Italian-American Catholic family. He took his bachelor’s degree at Princeton in 1972, where he wrote a senior thesis on the origins of representative government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He … Continue reading
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Brian Leiter: The Naturalist’s Program
Brian Leiter was born in 1963 in Manhattan, into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and graduated with a philosophy degree in 1984. He then went to Michigan, where he took a law degree in 1987 and finished a … Continue reading
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Who Decides What Counts As Scholarship In Law?
Legal scholarship in the United States runs on a peculiar arrangement no other academic field tolerates. Student editors at law reviews, mostly 2Ls and 3Ls at fewer than fifteen schools, pick what gets published in the venues that carry professional … Continue reading
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‘Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy’ (1983)
The power of the tacit in law schools hierarchies is often a matter of inheritance. Two of Stephen Turner’s high school classmates were children of law professors and they became elite law faculty. Daniel J. Meltzer and David F. Levi. … Continue reading
Ronald Dworkin and the Argument from Integrity
Ronald Dworkin was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on December 11, 1931, into a Jewish family, and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. He majored in philosophy at Harvard, graduated summa cum laude in 1953, and took his Rhodes to Magdalen … Continue reading
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The Kelsen Exclusion and the Jurisdictional Claim Balkin Now Defends
At an academic conference about a decade ago, legal philosopher Duncan Kennedy, who was retiring, said that at Harvard Law, they teach the students that judges and lawyers are policy makers, and that all that rule of law stuff was … Continue reading
The Heretic Inside the Temple: Sanford Levinson and the Limits of Constitutional Faith
Sanford Levinson was born June 17, 1941, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, into a Jewish family in the American South. He grows up watching a region that wraps its political order in scriptural authority, and he later turns that same eye … Continue reading
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Jack M. Balkin: Custodian of a Fraying Constitution
Jack M. Balkin was born August 13, 1956, in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds the Knight Professorship of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1994. He is on leave for spring … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional War Over The Purpose Of Professions
What happened in American public health before COVID was not an isolated drift. It was the visible edge of a broader settlement across elite professions. Medicine, law, and education all made the same move in parallel: they redefined their core … Continue reading
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