Announcements
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Oxford and UCL have a very nifty legal theory series convened by Nicos Stavropoulos of Oxford and George Letsas of UCL. Speakers include Ben Zipursky, Dennis Patterson, Jeremy Waldron, Susan Hurley, Liam Murphy, and Jules Coleman. Here’s the website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/seminars/0607/clt.php
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American Law & Economics Review (2006; Vol. 8, No. 2) is a Special Issue on Brown vs. Board of Education, edited by Orley Ashenfelter, with pieces by: Cecilia Elena Rouse Thomas J. Kane, Stephanie K. Riegg, and Douglas O. Staiger Orley Ashenfelter, William J. Collins, and Albert Yoon Roland G. Fryer, Jr and Steven D.…
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The lastest issue of the Yale Law Journal is now available online. Correspondence[ MORE ] The Most Dangerous Branch? Mayors, Governors, Presidents, and the Rule of Law: A Symposium on Executive PowerAn Introduction by Judy Coleman[ MORE ] Essays Why (and When) Cities Have a Stake in Enforcing the ConstitutionDavid J. Barron[ MORE ] Quasipublic…
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The Journal of Political Philosophy has taken a step towards open access, by making several key articles available without charge. As readers of Legal Theory Blog know, I believe that open access is vitally important and that publication in any venue that does not provide open access is irresponsible scholarship. I applaud this step, and…
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The very first post on Legal Theory Blog appeared on September 11, 2002. Here it is: Institutionalism Makes A Prominent Appearance. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have posted a very interesting piece on SSRN, called Interpretation and Institutions. Their thesis is that theories of interpretation must take into account the institutional capacities of judges. Once…
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On Saturday, the Download of the Week was On Belling the Cat: Rawls & Tort as Corrective Justice by Kevin A. Kordana (Virginia Law) and David H. Tabachnick (Virginia Philosophy) and the Legal Theory Bookworm recommended Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary by Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, Lisa M. Ellman,…
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This will be the new home of Legal Theory Blog. For the current version of LTB, surf to http://lsolum.blogspot.com. I would great appreciate feedback on the new design during this "beta" test. In particular, I am experimenting with the "post continuation" feature of typepad. One way to use this feature is to put the abstracts…