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The Role Of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools In The Renewal Of American Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
The Role Of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools In The Renewal Of American Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz
American Democracy has broken down. This crisis was on dramatic display in the 2016 Presidential Campaign. Americans are resentful, distrustful and pessimistic. We find it easy to blame “the other side” for the deadlock, mendacity and irresponsibility in American public life. By virtue of their public role, American law schools have an obligation to address the breakdown in order to understand and try to ameliorate it. That task is currently unfulfilled by law schools individually and collectively, which are distracted by marketing and pedagogy. Religious law schools, which retain the traits of normative discourse, mission, Truth and tragic limit to …
The Threat Of Independent Political Spending, Bruce Ledewitz
The Threat Of Independent Political Spending, Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz
Professor Lawrence Lessig has made a great contribution to American public life by drawing attention to the influence of money in politics through his writing, speaking, and organizing. His best-selling book, Republic Lost,2 has galvanized a movement demanding serious campaign finance reform. I agree with the broad outline of his concern about the dependence of Congress on wealthy individuals and entities and the political corruption that this pecuniary dependence entails.
So, it is with hesitation that I set out in this Article my reservations concerning Professor Lessig’s analysis of the problem of money. Money does not play quite the dominant …