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2 Nov 2022, 4:45 pm
” Such defenders of Hobbes’ Leviathan learned from Hobbes to destroy exactly the positions they, in fact, defend. [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 9:04 pm
Protecting the right to life is a primary justification for the consent of citizens to the authority of government in the social contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, which informed revolutions establishing democratic republics in the United States and Europe. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
I had not previously met Jeanne Sheehan Zaino or Wilfred Codrington (though I did happily blurb the book on constitutional amendment that Wilfred co-authored with John Kowal). [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
Their support—perhaps in particular John Leland’s—probably was decisive in Madison’s election to the Virginia ratifying convention. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 5:28 am
In "Leviathan" (1651), Thomas Hobbes wrote of "Ghosts of men deceased, and a whole kingdome of Fayries, and Bugbears. [read post]
10 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
This was certainly true, for example, of previous “most important books of their generation” like Alexander Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch or John Hart Ely’s Democracy and Distrust, both written during Warren Court and its aftermath in what many called the Brennan Court. [read post]
15 May 2022, 6:00 am
John Stuart Mill, for example, thought that there were higher pleasures (e.g., from listening to great music or reading a great novel) and lower pleasures (e.g., from strong drink, drugs, or playing video games). [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 10:43 am
Hobbes's theory of law shares some characteristics with the theories offered by Jeremy Bentham and John Austin--both of them clearly in the positivist tradition. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Hobbs, held that judicial deference to prison officials’ expert judgment on security questions is impermissible under RLUIPA. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 10:05 pm
John Gruber of Daring Fireball wrote an interesting account of the origins of the iPhone, including a timeline of its development. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 11:29 am
Responding to a new draft policy statement from the U.S. [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 10:05 pm
John Voorhees of MacStories shows off how the app works on the iPhone. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 12:30 pm
The Hobbs Act requires challenges to certain kinds of administrative orders to be consolidated in one randomly chosen circuit court. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 1:01 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts recalled a scene from the 1969 film Take the Money and Run involving a hapless bank robber with illegible handwriting. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 5:21 am
The extraordinary Ngoc Son Bui (my interview with him here) has organized a very interesting workshop (Constitutional Law of Greater China, 9-10 December 2021, Oxford Programme in Asian Laws) around essays that will be contributed to a Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China that is likely to become a standard in the field and an important reference for anyone interested in issues of Chinese constitutionalism (Program here). [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 11:22 am
Note from John Rubin: I regret to report that Emily Coward is leaving the School of Government. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 8:26 am
Pix Credit HERE Sometimes it is important to take a step back and reconsider the basics. [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 1:20 pm
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15 Oct 2021, 2:05 pm
" Kind of phoning it in, guys. 2015: Man pleads guilty to charges predicated on the notion that conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence. 2019: Supreme Court says conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 12:34 pm
” But the majority, over dissents by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices, nonetheless allowed the Texas law to go into effect while litigation challenging its constitutionality continues in the lower courts. [read post]
