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Sovereign Imaginaries: Visualizing The Sacred Foundation Of Law’S Authority, Richard K. Sherwin Aug 2022

Sovereign Imaginaries: Visualizing The Sacred Foundation Of Law’S Authority, Richard K. Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

If a world is to be lived in, it must be founded. This foundational function belongs to the sovereign imagination. What a polity names as sovereign in the state of exception, when the sacred irrupts anew, is a matter of individual and collective responsibility. In this dispensation, law, politics, and religion become inescapably entangled in metaphysics. It behooves us to understand the nature and consequences of this state of affairs.


Justice Anthony Kennedy's Free Speech Legacy [Comments], Nadine Strossen Jan 2019

Justice Anthony Kennedy's Free Speech Legacy [Comments], Nadine Strossen

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Justice Kennedy has been hailed by free speech advocates as a leading free speech champion. In contrast, other experts have not only criticized particular opinions and votes by Justice Kennedy that rejected free speech claims, but they also have maintained that Justice Kennedy specifically declined to protect speech that was at odds with his conservative political and religious views. It is certainly true that Justice Kennedy did not uphold freedom of speech in some important contexts, including when the Government asserted countervailing national security or "War on Drugs" concerns. However, in other important cases, Justice Kennedy showed courage in defending …


Lionfish As A Metaphor For Governance In An Era Of Climate Change, Rebecca M. Bratspies Jan 2014

Lionfish As A Metaphor For Governance In An Era Of Climate Change, Rebecca M. Bratspies

NYLS Law Review

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Reflections On The New Haven School, Molly Land Jan 2014

Reflections On The New Haven School, Molly Land

NYLS Law Review

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The Conceptual And Jurisprudential Aspects Of Property In The Context Of The Fundamental Rights Of Indigenous People: The Case Of The Shuar Of Ecuador, Winston P. Nagan, Craig Hammer Jan 2014

The Conceptual And Jurisprudential Aspects Of Property In The Context Of The Fundamental Rights Of Indigenous People: The Case Of The Shuar Of Ecuador, Winston P. Nagan, Craig Hammer

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Preface: Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence And Contemporary American Legal Education, Tai-Heng Cheng Jan 2014

Preface: Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence And Contemporary American Legal Education, Tai-Heng Cheng

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Expanding The “Geography” Of Policy Options To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Commentary On Hari Osofsky’S The Geography Of Solving Global Environmental Problems, William Ascher Jan 2014

Expanding The “Geography” Of Policy Options To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Commentary On Hari Osofsky’S The Geography Of Solving Global Environmental Problems, William Ascher

NYLS Law Review

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The Geography Of Solving Global Environmental Problems: Reflections On Polycentric Efforts To Address Climate Change, Hari M. Osofsky Jan 2014

The Geography Of Solving Global Environmental Problems: Reflections On Polycentric Efforts To Address Climate Change, Hari M. Osofsky

NYLS Law Review

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Empathy And Reasoning In Context: Thinking About Anti-Gay Bullying, Kris Franklin Jan 2014

Empathy And Reasoning In Context: Thinking About Anti-Gay Bullying, Kris Franklin

Articles & Chapters

“Empathy” has negative connotations for many legal theorists, who may conceive of it as subjective, lacking in intellectual rigor, and emphasizing sensitivity over reason. Even those legal scholars who have embraced the importance of empathy in legal work have emphasized its affective dimensions: pointing out that empathy is central to human relations and motivations, and is therefore a crucial lawyering skill. This paper builds on social science literature that identifies both cognitive and affective dimensions to empathy, and recasts empathy as in part a central component to higher-order thinking in law. It draws examples from empathetic reasoning in foundational cases …


Competition Within Intellectual Property Regimes: The Instance Of Patent Rights, Rudolph J.R. Peritz Jan 2011

Competition Within Intellectual Property Regimes: The Instance Of Patent Rights, Rudolph J.R. Peritz

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What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting The Visual Context Of Law And Film Studies, Richard K. Sherwin Jan 2009

What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting The Visual Context Of Law And Film Studies, Richard K. Sherwin

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Law on the screen gives rise to a distinct way of doing jurisprudence. In this sense, it is incumbent upon legal scholars to discern with great care the kind of reality and the way of being that cinematic and electronic screens invite us to assume. Jurisprudence theorizes law in accordance with the cultural and cognitive meaning making tools at its disposal: story frames, character types, social scenarios, metaphors, as well as cultural and socially embedded or constructed emotional patterns, among other narratival and purely sensational elements. Law and film studies thus may be viewed as encompassing a larger concern with …


An Improved Analytical Framework For The Official Acknowledgment Doctrine: A Broader Interpretation Of “Through An Official And Documented Disclosure”, Jessica Fisher Jan 2009

An Improved Analytical Framework For The Official Acknowledgment Doctrine: A Broader Interpretation Of “Through An Official And Documented Disclosure”, Jessica Fisher

NYLS Law Review

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The Authoritative Moment: Exploring The Boundaries Of Interpretation In The Recognition Of Queer Families, Kris Franklin Jan 2006

The Authoritative Moment: Exploring The Boundaries Of Interpretation In The Recognition Of Queer Families, Kris Franklin

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This article examines the boundaries of judicial interpretation as courts struggle to define the families formed by lesbians, gay men and transexuals. It compares the jurisprudence of numerous state courts examining queer families in different contexts. The article identifies three interwoven components of judicial reasoning: "lex" reasoning, grounded in the jurisdiction's binding and persuasive law; factual reasoning in which the courts must categorize queer families as analogous to those the law already recognizes or instead as something quite new and distinct; and finally methodological reasoning, in which courts self-consciously examine the boundaries of their own interpretive authority. Showing that in …


Theory Saved My Life, Kris Franklin Jan 2005

Theory Saved My Life, Kris Franklin

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In part a tribute to the groundbreaking work of legal theorist Ruthann Robson, this article argues that theory and theorizing are under-examined yet basic skills which must be taught to all beginning law students. Positing that in order to be effective in law school and legal culture law students must learn to see, construct, deconstruct and use legal theories, the article articulates several common approaches to basic legal pedagogy and asks how they might be enhanced if pedagogy is embedded in a theoretical comprehension of thestudents' roles as interpreters of law. The article offers as examples artwork far removed from …


Hercules, Omniscience, Omnipotence, And The Right Answer Thesis, Michael B.W. Sinclair Jan 2003

Hercules, Omniscience, Omnipotence, And The Right Answer Thesis, Michael B.W. Sinclair

NYLS Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Hercules, Omniscience, Omnipotence, And The Right Answer Thesis, Michael B. W. Sinclair Jan 2003

Hercules, Omniscience, Omnipotence, And The Right Answer Thesis, Michael B. W. Sinclair

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of The Constitution Besieged, By Howard Gillman, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 1994

Book Review Of The Constitution Besieged, By Howard Gillman, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Other Publications

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The Sanist Lives Of Jurors In Death Penalty Cases: The Puzzling Role Of Mitigating Mental Disability Evidence, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1994

The Sanist Lives Of Jurors In Death Penalty Cases: The Puzzling Role Of Mitigating Mental Disability Evidence, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Psychodynamics And The Insanity Defense: Ordinary Common Sense And Heuristic Reasoning, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1990

Psychodynamics And The Insanity Defense: Ordinary Common Sense And Heuristic Reasoning, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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American Jurisprudence Between The Wars: Legal Realism And The Crisis Of Democratic Theory, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 1969

American Jurisprudence Between The Wars: Legal Realism And The Crisis Of Democratic Theory, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.