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March 17, 2019: The Response To My Anti-Court-Packing Message, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Response to My anti-Court-Packing Message“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 10, 2019: Best Column Even By Thomas Friedman, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Best Column Even by Thomas Friedman“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 7, 2019: Network Message Endorses Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Network Message Endorses Nihilism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 28, 2019: The Communitarian Collapse In America, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

February 23, 2019: Opening Of The Memphis Talk On Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Opening of the Memphis talk on Court-Packing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 21, 2019: My Op-Ed On The Bladesnburg Cross, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ My op-ed on the Bladesnburg Cross“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 16, 2019: John Yoo, War Criminal, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “John Yoo, War Criminal“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 12, 2019: Ishmael, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

February 10, 2019: This Political Moment, Bruce Ledewitz

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

February 2, 2019: Leaver Agriculture, Bruce Ledewitz

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

January 29, 2019: How To Save American Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “How to Save American Democracy“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

January 26, 2019: Why There Is No Left Federalist Society, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Why There is No Left Federalist Society“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

January 21, 2019: Why Wasn't Fukuyama Right?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Why Wasn't Fukuyama Right?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

January 20, 2010: Love Driven Politics, Bruce Ledewitz

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

January 15, 2019: What’S Wrong?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “What’s Wrong?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

What Has Gone Wrong And What Can We Do About It?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

What Is The Best Model For Investigating Presidential Wrongdoing Today?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

A Call For America’S Law Professors To Oppose Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

How State Courts Can Help America Recover The Rule Of Law: The Pennsylvania Experience, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

Comparative Legal History. Edited By Olivier Moréteau, Aniceto Masferrer, And Kjell A. Modéer. Cheltenham, Uk; Northampton, Ma: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019 [Book Review], Dana Neacsu

Law Faculty Publications

Comparative Legal History stands out for both its content and its execution. At a time when most law schools devote themselves to the study of hic et nunc (here and now), Comparative Legal History proves there is something more than the rather dogmatic and pragmatic description of what is traditionally recognized as the law. In an age of hyper specialization, it discredits the absurd notion of law as (hard) science. Law, a human product, can easily be the object of scientific observations, but does that scientific observation need to be limited to the study of rules and norms in force …

The Code Of Capital. How The Law Creates Wealth And Inequality. Pistor, Katharina. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 [Book Review], Dana Neacsu

Law Faculty Publications

In “The Little King,” Salman Rushdie’s prize-winning take on corruption and the opioid crisis, as published in The New Yorker (July 29, 2019), the law is described as “an ass,” but a useful one:

"The law is useful, in fact. It tells you who is the correct person you need to convince. Otherwise, you can waste money convincing people who don’t have the stamp. Waste not, want not. We are like this only. We know what is the oil that greases the wheels" (Rushdie, 59, 2019).

The Code of Capital. How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality is a prize-winning …

Troubling Transparency: The History And Future Of Freedom Of Information. Edited By David E. Pozen And Michael Schudson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. [Book Review], Dana Neacsu

Law Faculty Publications

Troubling Transparency is a collection of essays written by jurists, sociologists, and journalists. The fourteen contributions to this volume were also presentations to the Columbia School of Journalism 2016 conference, which the co-editors, Michael Schudson and David Pozen also co-organized, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The essays are organized into four parts: 1) the history and conceptual foundations of the statute, 2) the impact FOIA has on the media, 3) tactics in transparency, and 4) the impact FOIA has had globally.

Taking The Threat To Democracy Seriously, Bruce S. Ledewitz

Law Faculty Publications

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How State Courts Can Help America Recover The Rule Of Law: The Pennsylvania Experience, Bruce Ledewitz

Law Faculty Publications

Just before Thanksgiving, a jurisprudentially revealing and widely publicized debate about whether America has a rule of law took place between the President of the United States and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Patents, Disclosure, And Biopiracy, Aman Gebru

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Il Était Une Fois… Analyse Juridique Des Contes De Fées, Marine Ranouil And Nicolas Dissaux, Eds. Paris: Dalloz, 2018. [Book Review], Dana Neacsu

Law Faculty Publications

Il était une fois… Once Upon a Time, edited by Marine Ranouil and Nicholas Dissaux, inhabits the most tempting theory of Gramscian hegemony: Law codifies the people’s desires, especially those imparted to them through books; through the written word. Reading it brought to mind Bertrand Barère and his explanation of the French Revolution of 1789. Books did it all because they brought enlightenment into all classes of society. This seems pretentious and partially inaccurate. The Revolution was also ignited by filth and hunger, which made the masses part with their innate fear of death and bravely fight for such …

December 28, 2018: Holiday Travel, Bruce Ledewitz

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

December 25, 2018: The Parable That Ends The Novel, The Chosen Is A Christmas Parable, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Parable that Ends the Novel, The Chosen is a Christmas Parable“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

December 23, 2018: More Of The New Mark Lilla, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “More of the New Mark Lilla“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

December 18, 2018: The Continuing Disintegration Of Politics In America, Bruce Ledewitz

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