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December 20, 2016: Faithless Calls For Faithless Electors, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 20, 2016: Faithless Calls For Faithless Electors, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Faithless Calls for Faithless Electors“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 4, 2016: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 4, 2016: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Supreme Court and Politics“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Am I A “Licensed Liar”?: An Exploration Into The Ethic Of Honesty In Lawyering . . . And A Reply Of “No!” To The Stranger In The La Fiesta Lounge, Josiah M. Daniel Iii Dec 2016

Am I A “Licensed Liar”?: An Exploration Into The Ethic Of Honesty In Lawyering . . . And A Reply Of “No!” To The Stranger In The La Fiesta Lounge, Josiah M. Daniel Iii

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

After hearing for the first time the lawyer-disparaging phrase, “licensed liar,” the author investigated its significance. This article presents the question of those two words’ meaning and explains how the author reached the conclusion that, as applied to attorneys, the phrase is an unmerited epithet. The phrase is known and utilized in nonlegal texts in fields such as fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and journalism, but the two words are absent from legal texts. The author’s discovery of the phrase in various criticisms of lawyers in other publications illuminates and confirms that the phrase constitutes the pejorative allegation that an attorney …


November 19, 2016: The Hypocrisy Of The Congressional Republican Party, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 19, 2016: The Hypocrisy Of The Congressional Republican Party, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Hypocrisy of the Congressional Republican Party“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 10, 2016: Don’T Forget That The Game Is Still Rigged, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 10, 2016: Don’T Forget That The Game Is Still Rigged, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Don’t Forget that the Game is Still Rigged“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 2, 2016: What Comey Did, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 2, 2016: What Comey Did, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Comey Did“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 27, 2016: Republicans About To Practice Supreme Court Shutdown, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2016

October 27, 2016: Republicans About To Practice Supreme Court Shutdown, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Republicans About to Practice Supreme Court Shutdown“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Legal Anarchism: Does Existence Need To Be Regulated By The State, Sirus Kashefi Sep 2016

Legal Anarchism: Does Existence Need To Be Regulated By The State, Sirus Kashefi

PhD Dissertations

This thesis asks does existence need to be regulated by the State? The answer relies on legal anarchism, an interdisciplinary, particularly criminal law and philosophy, and unconventional research project based on multiple methodologies with a specific language. It critically analyzes and consequently rejects State law because of its unjustified and unnecessary nature founded on unlimited violence and white-collar crime (Chapters 1-4), on the one hand, and suggests some alternatives to the Governmental legal system founded on agreement and peace (Chapter 5), on the other hand. It furthermore takes into account the elements of time and space, which means the ecological, …


August 18, 2016: America Would Not Ban The Burkini, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 18, 2016: America Would Not Ban The Burkini, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “America Would Not Ban the Burkini“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 8, 2016: Lack Lives Matter So Much That The Police Are Needed, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2016

July 8, 2016: Lack Lives Matter So Much That The Police Are Needed, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Black Lives Matter So Much that the Police are Needed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 22, 2016: Purposeful Obfuscation On Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2016

June 22, 2016: Purposeful Obfuscation On Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Purposeful Obfuscation on Gun Control“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 16, 2016: How Heller Resolves The Gun Issue, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2016

June 16, 2016: How Heller Resolves The Gun Issue, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “How Heller Resolves the Gun Issue“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Book Review. "But I Know It When I See It": Natural Law And Formalism, W. H. Bryson May 2016

Book Review. "But I Know It When I See It": Natural Law And Formalism, W. H. Bryson

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


April 13, 2016: The Future Of Law School, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2016

April 13, 2016: The Future Of Law School, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Future of Law School“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 7, 2016: The Religious Liberty-Gay Rights Problem, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2016

April 7, 2016: The Religious Liberty-Gay Rights Problem, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Religious Liberty-Gay Rights Problem“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 31, 2016: Well, If It Is A Crime, Why Shouldn’T Women Be Punished?, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2016

March 31, 2016: Well, If It Is A Crime, Why Shouldn’T Women Be Punished?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Well, If It is a Crime, Why Shouldn’t Women Be Punished?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 25, 2016: Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2016

March 25, 2016: Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Religious Exemptions“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


February 16, 2016:Does The Constitution Protect The Right To Have More Than One Child?, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2016

February 16, 2016:Does The Constitution Protect The Right To Have More Than One Child?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Does the Constitution Protect the Right to Have More than One Child?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


February 14, 2016: Was Scalia A Great Justice?, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2016

February 14, 2016: Was Scalia A Great Justice?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Was Scalia a Great Justice?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


New Adventures Of Old Pauline Law, Tawia Baidoe Ansah Feb 2016

New Adventures Of Old Pauline Law, Tawia Baidoe Ansah

Tawia B. Ansah

This article examines the idea of law within two recent philosophical approaches to a theological text. Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou, two postmodern philosophers on the political left, look to the letters of St. Paul for the definition and extraction of the political subject. They look to Paul’s messianism and his conversion to discover, within their own philosophical projects, what is truly political within the Western philosophical tradition, for which Paul’s theology is unconditional. The article focuses on the conception of law that, in turn, derives from these projects. The article suggests that within both, despite the objective rejection of …


January 30, 2016: Journalism Under Attach—Again, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2016

January 30, 2016: Journalism Under Attach—Again, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Journalism Under Attach—Again“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


January 9, 2016: Lessons From New York, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2016

January 9, 2016: Lessons From New York, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Lessons from New York“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Introduction To Law In Literature And Philosophy, Joseph P. Tomain Jan 2016

Introduction To Law In Literature And Philosophy, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

As the title indicates, this is an Introductory Memorandum for a course entitled: Law In Literature and Philosophy. The memorandum begins to explore the themes of the course more particularly it explores the relationships between and among law, literature, and philosophy by posing questions such as: Is the intersection of law and literature limited to stories about law and methods of interpretation? Or is law and literature a movement to reclaim law as part of the humanities rather than as a social science such as economics as Judge Posner questions? Or, does literature, as Professor Martha Nussbaum has written, help …


The Threat Of Independent Political Spending To Democratic Life—And A Plan To Stop It, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2016

The Threat Of Independent Political Spending To Democratic Life—And A Plan To Stop It, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Probable Cause Revisited, William Ortman Jan 2016

Probable Cause Revisited, William Ortman

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


The Five Days In June When Values Died In American Law, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2016

The Five Days In June When Values Died In American Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.