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13 Apr 2008, 3:50 pm
I will be reviewing Philip Bobbitt's Terror and Consent for a major book review in a couple of weeks, so I will refrain from saying anything about this book now. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 11:25 am
TERROR AND CONSENT: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt (Alfred A. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 9:04 am
(On this, see Niall Ferguson's review of my friend and colleague Philip Bobbitt's new book on Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century, which will appear in tomorrow's New York Times.) 4) I have also recently read William Stevenson's The Man Called Intrepid, about all sorts of irregular and illegal activities that book place both in Great Britain and the United States prior to the formal outbreak of World War II. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 8:53 pm
  Philip Bobbitt (I don't think he'd mind me identifying him), in an illuminating conversation (as they always are) with me today noted that this sentiment, the idea that what is prudence for an individual becomes a genuinely moral obligation for the ruler - and amplifies it -  is part of Machiavelli's thought in The Prince. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 2:04 pm
   I love Philip Bobbitt's work in Constitutional Interpretation and Constitutional Fate, almost Talmudic in how it sees each issue from every side, and shows how every form of constitutional argumentation can be used for just about any substantive position. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 2:21 pm
  Whether or not "we are all ___ now" as constitutional law scholars, in the classroom we are all Philip Bobbitt now. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 9:56 am
He points out that:When it comes to constitutional interpretation in the United States, certainly at the highest appellate levels (where precedent imposes the least constraint), there is no convergent practice of behavior by judges: they tend towards opportunism (a point famously captured in my colleague Philip Bobbitt's 1982 book on Constitutional Fate, though that was not his primary aim). [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 8:01 am
Glenn Sulmasy, JAG and law professor at the US Coast Guard academy, and John Yoo have published a new article in the UCLA law review, "Challenges to Civilian Control of the Military: A Rational Choice Approach to the War on Terror," 54 UCLALR 1815 (August 2007). [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 5:48 am
"The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping": Philip Bobbitt has this op-ed today in The New York Times. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 3:50 am
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping By PHILIP BOBBITT "There are many instances in which warrantless surveillance has been held to be permissible under the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 4:12 pm
In this story, at the level of interpretation, scholars pick up on the importance of the pluralistic theory of interpretation pioneered by Philip Bobbitt. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 9:39 am
., and I hope that he puts all the work he has done over the past decade into a book on the general question of American policy and international law.Alas, John Ryle was in Sudan this week, not London, and Philip Bobbitt was traveling someplace else too.Meanwhile, I am actually in DC as I write this, not London. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 10:16 am
Anyway, it has made a major play in the international law and national security law scholar games, so to speak, with two exciting hires this year - the preeminent Philip Bobbitt, and the young and brilliant Matthew Waxman. [read post]
11 May 2007, 10:25 am
Constitutional arguments, as Philip Bobbitt has shown us, draw on text, original intent, the constitutional structure, precedent, ethical considerations, and prudence. [read post]
11 May 2007, 10:25 am
Constitutional arguments, as Philip Bobbitt has shown us, draw on text, original intent, the constitutional structure, precedent, ethical considerations, and prudence. [read post]
19 Dec 2006, 7:47 am
Here is the abstract:In his recent book Constitutional Interpretation, Philip Bobbitt claims that the generally accepted modalities are how we understand the Constitution at the ground level, not how we later interpret it. [read post]
13 Jun 2006, 11:10 am
But I also managed to catch up with Philip Bobbitt, who spends much of the year in London these days, and then my old and dear friend John Ryle, head of the Rift Valley Institute and now a hoighty toighty chair in anthropology at Bard College in New York, who hosted us all for dinner at his flat, despite the fact that he had just arrived back in London from Sudan, where he had contracted typhoid fever. [read post]