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Theory, Identity, Vocation: Three Models Of Christian Legal Scholarship, William Brewbaker
Theory, Identity, Vocation: Three Models Of Christian Legal Scholarship, William Brewbaker
William S. Brewbaker III
Recognizably Christian scholarship is becoming more commonplace in the American legal academy, yet little systematic attention has been given to fundamental questions of approach. This article highlights moments of continuity and discontinuity between Christian legal scholarship and its secular counterparts. Contrary to the expectations generated by contemporary political debate, the distinctive contribution of Christian legal scholarship is not primarily to provide ammunition for political programs of the right or the left, but to situate law and human legal practices within a larger story about the world. This article develops three models of Christian legal scholarship - theory, identity and vocation. …
Found Law, Made Law And Creation: Reconsidering Blackstone's Declaratory Theory, William Brewbaker
Found Law, Made Law And Creation: Reconsidering Blackstone's Declaratory Theory, William Brewbaker
William S. Brewbaker III
The subject of this paper is Blackstone's famous declaratory theory of law - the claim that judges find the law, rather than make it. Blackstone's claim is widely rejected in the legal academy, often because Blackstone is (wrongly) associated with the brooding omnipresence view of law rejected in cases like Erie, Guaranty Trust and Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen. I argue that Blackstone's theory fails for other reasons - namely, because his account does not square well with law practice as it exists and because his distinction between legislative lawmaking and judicial declaration is ultimately unsustainable. Despite its faults, Blackstone's …
Thomas Aquinas And The Metaphysics Of Law, William Brewbaker
Thomas Aquinas And The Metaphysics Of Law, William Brewbaker
William S. Brewbaker III
Despite modernity's longstanding aversion to metaphysics, legal scholars are increasingly questioning whether law can be understood in isolation from wider questions about the nature of reality. This paper examines perhaps the most famous of metaphysical legal texts - Thomas Aquinas' still-widely-read Treatise on Law - with a view toward tracing the influence of Thomas' metaphysical presuppositions. This article shows that Thomas' account of human law cannot be fully understood apart from his metaphysics. Attention to Thomas' hierarchical view of reality exposes tensions between Thomas' "top-down" account of law and his sophisticated "bottom-up" observations. For example, Thomas grounds human law's authority …
Learning To Love The State Action Doctrine, William S. Brewbaker
Learning To Love The State Action Doctrine, William S. Brewbaker
William S. Brewbaker III
The state action doctrine receives relatively little attention in the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice 2004 report on competition in the health care sector. Not surprisingly, the report focuses primarily on urging states to reconsider specific laws that tend to restrict competition in health care markets but that are clearly shielded by the state action doctrine. Relatively little attention is given to the interpretation of the doctrine itself. This article employs the twin themes of institutional choice and market failure to evaluate a number of interpretive proposals affecting the state action doctrine that were available to, but not taken up …
Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other, William S. Brewbaker
Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other, William S. Brewbaker
William S. Brewbaker III
This essay reviews Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Angela Carmella's Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale 2001). In doing so, it argues that Christian legal scholarship ought to be of interest to legal scholars generally and evaluates the book's efforts to assist scholars in recovering Christian traditions of political and jurisprudential reflection.