July 14, 2018: Disgraceful Democratic Party Defense Of Peter Strzok, 2018 Duquesne University
July 14, 2018: Disgraceful Democratic Party Defense Of Peter Strzok, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Disgraceful Democratic Party Defense of Peter Strzok“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Weird Science: The Empircial Study Of Legal Writing/Describing Law’S Enterprise: Moving From Theory To Research Question To Research Design And Implementation, 2018 Texas A&M University School of Law
Weird Science: The Empircial Study Of Legal Writing/Describing Law’S Enterprise: Moving From Theory To Research Question To Research Design And Implementation, Brian Larson
Brian Larson
How We Built A Scholarly Working Group Devoted To Classical Legal Rhetoric (And How You Can Do The Same Thing With Other Legal Writing Subjects), 2018 Texas A&M University School of Law
How We Built A Scholarly Working Group Devoted To Classical Legal Rhetoric (And How You Can Do The Same Thing With Other Legal Writing Subjects), Brian Larson, Kirsten K. Davis, Lori D. Johnson, Ted Becker, Susan E. Provenzano
Brian Larson
July 10, 2018: Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors, 2018 Duquesne University
July 10, 2018: Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 4, 2018: In Christ There Is Neither Democrat Nor Republican, 2018 Duquesne University
July 4, 2018: In Christ There Is Neither Democrat Nor Republican, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “In Christ There Is Neither Democrat nor Republican“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Texas Standards For Appellate Conduct: An Annotated Guide And Commentary, 2018 Texas Thirteenth Court of Appeals
The Texas Standards For Appellate Conduct: An Annotated Guide And Commentary, Gina M. Benavides, Joshua J. Caldwell
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
The legal profession is bound by ethical rules that govern and guide our conduct and actions as lawyers. One of the under-appreciated, but profoundly important set of guidelines is the Texas Standards for Appellate Conduct. These Standards serve as an excellent practice guide for appellate practitioners and appellate courts and as a model code of conduct for the Bar as a whole.
The goal of this Article is to dissect the Texas Standards for Appellate Conduct and provide useful commentaries for the readers to better appreciate and understand each element of the Standards. The commentaries provide direct case examples and …
Sesat Pikir Aplikasi Hermeneutika Hukum Menurut Hans-Georg Gadamer, 2018 Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Sesat Pikir Aplikasi Hermeneutika Hukum Menurut Hans-Georg Gadamer, Fernando Morganda Manullang
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
Some legal writing written by legal scholars interpret legal text methodologically in their analysis, while seeking its philosophical foundation, namely Hans-Georg Gadamer’s legal hermeneutics. Such hermeneutics is part of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics which can be applied to law, aside from theology and philology. Such hermeneutics employs in general and on ontological level thereof. Such understanding is unknown in jurisprudence, because the interpretation in jurisprudence is more methodological, an idea that Gadamer clearly opposes. Such scholarly legal perspective potentially creates some fallacies towards Gadamer's idea on legal hermeneutics
July 1, 2018: Can We Agree That Not Everything Unions Do Is Speech, 2018 Duquesne University
July 1, 2018: Can We Agree That Not Everything Unions Do Is Speech, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Can We Agree that not Everything Unions Do is Speech“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
What Lawyers Can And Should Do About Mendacity In Politics, 2018 Georgetown University Law Center
What Lawyers Can And Should Do About Mendacity In Politics, Heidi Li Feldman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Donald Trump has brought new attention to the mendacity of politicians. Both major national newspapers have reported tallies of Trump's false and misleading claims. On November 14, 2017, The Washington Post reported that in the 298 days that President Trump has been president, he had made 1,628 false or misleading claims, telling them at a rate of nine per day in the thirty-five days prior to November 14. Trump, the Post reported, has made fifty false or misleading claims “that he as repeated three or more times.” The Post also catalogued scores of “flip-flops” from Trump. In general, from 2016 …
Kennedy’S Retirement: Despair Not, Go Out And Organize, 2018 Duquesne University
Kennedy’S Retirement: Despair Not, Go Out And Organize, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
June 26, 2018: Liberal Inconsistency And Arrogance, 2018 Duquesne University
June 26, 2018: Liberal Inconsistency And Arrogance, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Liberal Inconsistency and Arrogance“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 23, 2018: Best Paul Krugman Column Ever, 2018 Duquesne University
June 23, 2018: Best Paul Krugman Column Ever, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ Best Paul Krugman Column Ever“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 18, 2018: We Don’T Live In A Post-Credal Age—Only Power Lives In A Post-Credal Age, 2018 Duquesne University
June 18, 2018: We Don’T Live In A Post-Credal Age—Only Power Lives In A Post-Credal Age, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “We Don’t Live in a Post-Credal Age—Only Power Lives in a Post-Credal Age“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 15, 2018: What Is Wrong?, 2018 Duquesne University
June 15, 2018: What Is Wrong?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What is Wrong?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Virtuous Billing, 2018 Texas A&M University School of Law
Virtuous Billing, Randy D. Gordon, Nancy B. Rapoport
Randy D. Gordon
Aristotle tells us, in his Nicomachean Ethics, that we become ethical by building good habits and we become unethical by building bad habits: “excellence of character results from habit, whence it has acquired its name (êthikê) by a slight modification of the word ethos (habit).” Excellence of character comes from following the right habits. Thinking of ethics as habit-forming may sound unusual to the modern mind, but not to Aristotle or the medieval thinkers who grew up in his long shadow. “Habit” in Greek is “ethos,” from which we get our modern word, “ethical.” In Latin, habits are moralis, which …
Debt Stigma And Social Class, 2018 Seattle University School of Law
Debt Stigma And Social Class, Michael D. Sousa
Seattle University Law Review
For as long as creditors have been extending credit to consumer debtors, Western society has stigmatized those individuals who failed to repay their financial obligations or who found themselves swamped by unmanageable debt. Over the past three decades, scholars have studied whether the stigma surrounding indebtedness and bankruptcy has declined or increased in American society, mainly due to the sharp spike in consumer bankruptcy filings during the 1990s. These studies have resulted in a general debate over whether debt stigma still exists in society. Absent from the scholarly literature to date is an exploration of whether debtors from different social …
June 12, 2018: My Response To Ross Douthat Column On Free Speech Saving Us, 2018 Duquesne University
June 12, 2018: My Response To Ross Douthat Column On Free Speech Saving Us, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “My Response to Ross Douthat Column on Free Speech Saving Us“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Why Won't Free Speech Save Us?, 2018 Duquesne University
Why Won't Free Speech Save Us?, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
June 11, 2018: The Nakba, 2018 Duquesne University
June 11, 2018: The Nakba, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Nakba“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 5, 2018: Yes, The President Can Pardon Himself And This Court Is Going To Vote For Religious Believers, 2018 Duquesne University
June 5, 2018: Yes, The President Can Pardon Himself And This Court Is Going To Vote For Religious Believers, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Yes, the President Can Pardon Himself and This Court is Going to Vote for Religious Believers“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.