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“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether Jun 2008

“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

This Article, a contribution to the Cardozo Law Review symposium in honor of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event, uses Badiou’s theorizing of the event and of the militant in Being and Event as a basis for an exploration of problems of judicial ontology and constitutional hermeneutics raised in recent decisions by common law courts dealing with the legislative and executive confinement of “Islamic” asylum seekers, “enemy combatants” and “terrorism suspects,” and certain classes of criminal offenders in spaces beyond the doctrines, paradigms and institutions of the criminal law. The Article proposes an ontology and a poetics of judging equal to …


Brennan V. Scalia, Justice Or Jurisprudence? A Moderate Proposal, Travis A. Knobbe Apr 2008

Brennan V. Scalia, Justice Or Jurisprudence? A Moderate Proposal, Travis A. Knobbe

West Virginia Law Review

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Concurrence, Posner-Style: Ten Ways To Look At The Concurring Opinions Of Judge Richard A. Posner, Robert F. Blomquist Jan 2008

Concurrence, Posner-Style: Ten Ways To Look At The Concurring Opinions Of Judge Richard A. Posner, Robert F. Blomquist

Law Faculty Publications

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