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20 Aug 2020, 12:31 pm
The ultimate effect of this statute, if it were systematically enforced, would be to transform a partisan, party-leader and policymaking president into something more akin to a modern British monarch—a nonpartisan figure who is not allowed to publicly give voice to independent views about what measures advance the public good. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 8:35 am
I am happy to announce the publication of an article, "The Emerging Normative Structures of Transnational Law: Non-State Enterprises in Polycentric Asymmetric Global Orders," that appears in the B.Y.U. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 3:07 pm
Pix Credit: Reuters, In Memorial Day speech, Biden defends ‘imperfect’ democracyPresident Biden, like several of his predecessors, set the toe of his speechmaking--understood as the way in which the president seeks to invest objects and events with collective meaning--by reference to key Biblical passages which resonate with the office holder. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 7:00 am
If a majority thinks that democratic rule is unappealing, it can simply change the rules to entrench minority, oligarchical, monarchical, or theocratic rule. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 1:03 pm
The law of the Roman Catholic church before reformation, the law of the monarchs, the law of the duke, the customs of the country, the customs of the peculiar place, and the customs of particular ethnic groups within the place. [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 7:03 am
Pix Credit here But nations, like individuals, become wise only through experience, and only through experience of their own. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 5:26 am
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25 Aug 2013, 1:44 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Federation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
Ruminations 66/Democracy Part 37: "Las Ideas no se Matan;" Thoughts on the Death of Fidel Castro Ruz
26 Nov 2016, 8:27 pm
The cults of personality made it possible for an extended rule--one that mimicked those of great Enlightenment monarchs. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
It is with great delight that I pass along the announcement of an exciting new Online Symposium. [read post]
19 May 2019, 7:00 am
Editor’s Note: Turkey has emerged as an important, but confusing, actor in the greater Middle East and beyond. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
What is “executive privilege”? [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 5:26 pm
School District Liability for Arbuckle Burn Victim I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento Burn Injury Lawyer. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 2:44 pm
INTRODUCTION On September 28, 2004, the United States Supreme Court granted a property owner’s application for leave from a Connecticut Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the community’s taking of property with the specified purpose of creating jobs by selling the property to a private industrial user.1 As the petitioner land owners in Kelo express in their brief requesting leave, the critical question for the Court to determine is whether a taking for purely… [read post]
22 Jan 2024, 8:24 pm
Pix Credit hereI have been considering several critical remarks made by high ranking members of two fo the more important leading groups on the global scene at the annual congress of global leading forces, the World Economic Forum held in Davos Switzerland. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 5:24 pm
Has Business Left Milton Friedman Behind? [read post]
24 Jun 2023, 1:05 pm
Putin (the Russian President and the elected monarch of the Russian feudal autocracy), and Yevgeny Prigozhin (the leader of the Wagner Group and a high ranking boyar in what appears to be the Russian nobility of the present day) might be understood. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 10:12 am
The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention, scheduled for a critical concluding session from 29 July to August 9th, poses a significant threat to global human rights unless major changes are made. [read post]
29 Sep 2013, 6:53 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]
