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Full-Text Articles in Law
Religiosity In Constitutions And The Status Of Minority Rights, Brandy G. Robinson
Religiosity In Constitutions And The Status Of Minority Rights, Brandy G. Robinson
Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions
Minority rights and religion have never been topics that are simultaneously considered. However, arguably, the two have relevance, especially when combined with the topic and theory of constitutionalism. Historically and traditionally, minorities have been granted certain rights and have been denied certain rights under various constitutions. These grants and denials relate to cultural differences and values, arguably relating to a culture’s understanding and interpretation of religion.
This article explores the relationship and status of minority rights as it relates to religiosity and constitutionalism. Essentially, there is a correlation between these topics and research shows where certain nations have used religion …
December 30, 2014: The Radical Religious Message Of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Bruce Ledewitz
December 30, 2014: The Radical Religious Message Of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Radical Religious Message of A Charlie Brown Christmas“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 27, 2014: Religion As Tool, Not Identity, Bruce Ledewitz
December 27, 2014: Religion As Tool, Not Identity, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Religion as Tool, Not Identity“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 24, 2014: Christmas Mourning, 2014, Bruce Ledewitz
December 24, 2014: Christmas Mourning, 2014, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Christmas Mourning, 2014“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 21, 2014: Questioning Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz
December 21, 2014: Questioning Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Questioning Capitalism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 18, 2014: Good News On Cuba, Bruce Ledewitz
December 18, 2014: Good News On Cuba, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Good News on Cuba“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 14, 2014: The Tough Guys Who Favor Torture, Bruce Ledewitz
December 14, 2014: The Tough Guys Who Favor Torture, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Tough Guys Who Favor Torture“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Legacy Of Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013): A Legal Theory And Methodology For Hedgehogs, Hercules, And One Right Answers, Imer Flores
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this paper the author addresses Ronald Dworkin’s work and assesses his legacy to legal, moral and political philosophy. And so, considers among its merits having developed an original legal theory with its distinctive methodology, which not only has transcended the Natural Law and Legal Positivism dichotomy, but also has reintegrated law into a branch of political morality and defended as a corollary the one right answer thesis. Hence, commences by identifying the dworkininan challenge; continues by introducing some basic definitions and distinctions between jurisprudence, legal philosophy (or philosophy of law) and legal theory (or theory of law), on the …
December 11, 2014: No Justification For Torture, Bruce Ledewitz
December 11, 2014: No Justification For Torture, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No Justification for Torture“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 9, 2014: There Was A Moment, Bruce Ledewitz
December 9, 2014: There Was A Moment, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “There Was a Moment“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 6, 2014: The Death Of Meaning In Law And Life, Bruce Ledewitz
December 6, 2014: The Death Of Meaning In Law And Life, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Death of Meaning in Law and Life“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Prediction Theories Of Law And The Internal Point Of View, Michael S. Green
Prediction Theories Of Law And The Internal Point Of View, Michael S. Green
Faculty Publications
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Jury Voting Paradoxes, Jason Iuliano
Jury Voting Paradoxes, Jason Iuliano
Michigan Law Review
The special verdict is plagued by two philosophical paradoxes: the discursive dilemma and the lottery paradox. Although widely discussed in the philosophical literature, these paradoxes have never been applied to jury decision making. In this Essay, I use the paradoxes to show that the special verdict’s vote-reporting procedures can lead judges to render verdicts that the jurors themselves would reject. This outcome constitutes a systemic breakdown that should not be tolerated in a legal system that prides itself on the fairness of its jury decision-making process. Ultimately, I argue that, because the general verdict with answers to written questions does …
Unidad Y Orden Metafísicos Del Ordenamiento Jurídico, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
Unidad Y Orden Metafísicos Del Ordenamiento Jurídico, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
El trabajo analiza dos características constitutivas del ordenamiento jurídico: la unidad y el orden. se trabaja desde la perspectiva de una metafísica realista, bajo el método sistemático, deductivo y cualitativo. Para el efecto, se analizan los cuatro tipos de causas que pueden fundamentar la unidad y el orden del sistema jurídico. La amplitud de este esquema posibilita ir recogiendo al paso los aciertos de los neokantianos, de Kelsen, Austin, Luhmann y otros autores que han estudiado la materia. se muestran las diferentes nociones de ordenamiento jurídico y sus características principales. se estudia cómo las cuatro causas metafísicas dan unidad al …
November 30, 2014: More Reasons The Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed, Bruce Ledewitz
November 30, 2014: More Reasons The Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “More Reasons the Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
La Rebeldía De J.Waldron: ¿Es Democrático El Control Judicial Constitucional?, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni
La Rebeldía De J.Waldron: ¿Es Democrático El Control Judicial Constitucional?, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni
Joshimar De la cruz Aroni
Constitutional Law
November 26, 2014: Pope Tells Haggard Europe That It Is In Need Of Cultural Renewal, Bruce Ledewitz
November 26, 2014: Pope Tells Haggard Europe That It Is In Need Of Cultural Renewal, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Pope Tells Haggard Europe that it is in Need of Cultural Renewal“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Open-Minded Listening, Jonathan R. Cohen
Open-Minded Listening, Jonathan R. Cohen
Jonathan R. Cohen
Parties in conflict do not typically listen to one another well. On a physical level they hear what their counterparts say, but on a deeper level they do not truly absorb or think seriously about their counterparts’ words. If they listen at all, they listen with an ear toward how they can refute rather than toward what they may learn. This article explores how we might change this. In contrast to prior research examining external aspects of listening (e.g., how being listened to influences the speaker), this article probes the internal side of listening, specifically, whether the listener will allow …
Closing The Doors To Justice: A Critique Of Pimentel V. Dreyfus And The Application Of Legal Formalism To The Elimination Of Food Assistance Benefits For Legal Immigrants, Hannah Zommick
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment contends that the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Pimentel v. Dreyfus employed a legal formalist approach and that by applying this framework, the court prevented legal immigrants, who were caught between the strict eligibility restrictions of welfare reform, from asserting their rights through the justice system. The legal formalist approach “treats the law as a set of scientific formulae or principles that are derived from the study of case law. These principles create an internal analytical framework which, when applied to a set of facts, leads the decision maker, through logical deduction, to the correct outcome in a case.” …
November 21, 2014: The Secular Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz
November 21, 2014: The Secular Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Secular Death Penalty“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 20, 2014: Not Serving The Interests Of The Country, Bruce Ledewitz
November 20, 2014: Not Serving The Interests Of The Country, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Not Serving the Interests of the Country“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Freedom, Benefit And Understanding: Reflections On Laurence Claus's Critique Of Authority, John Finnis
Freedom, Benefit And Understanding: Reflections On Laurence Claus's Critique Of Authority, John Finnis
Journal Articles
Written for a symposium in the University of San Diego Law School in September 2013 on Laurence Claus, Law’s Evolution and Human Understanding (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), this article appears in the final issue of volume 52 of the San Diego Law Review. With new illustrations and considerations suggested by the book, the article argues for a number of theses: “Because I/we say so” is never a reasonable ground or formulation of authoritative acts such as enactments or parental or other orders. The moral authority of rule makers is never peremptory in a binary (all or nothing) as …
November 16, 2014: A Beautiful Movie, Bruce Ledewitz
November 16, 2014: A Beautiful Movie, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “A Beautiful Movie“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 13, 2014: The Climate Deal With China, Bruce Ledewitz
November 13, 2014: The Climate Deal With China, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Climate Deal with China“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Antigone Claimed, "I Am A Stranger": Democracy, Membership And Unauthorized Immigration, Andres Fabian Henao Castro
Antigone Claimed, "I Am A Stranger": Democracy, Membership And Unauthorized Immigration, Andres Fabian Henao Castro
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation offers a new framework through which to theorize contemporary democratic practices by attending to the political agency of unauthorized immigrants. I argue that unauthorized immigrants themselves, by claiming their own ambiguous legal condition as a legitimate basis for public speech, are able to open up the boundaries of political membership and to render the foundations of democracy contingent, that is to say, they are able to reopen the question about who counts as a member of the demos. I develop this argument by way of a close reading of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone[1], which allows me to …
November 9, 2014: How Destructive Is Capitalism?, Bruce Ledewitz
November 9, 2014: How Destructive Is Capitalism?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ How Destructive Is Capitalism?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 6, 2014: An Election Of Anxiety, Bruce Ledewitz
November 6, 2014: An Election Of Anxiety, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “An Election of Anxiety“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 2, 2014: Today’S Papers, Bruce Ledewitz
November 2, 2014: Today’S Papers, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Today’s Papers“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Scope Of Precedent, Randy J. Kozel
The Scope Of Precedent, Randy J. Kozel
Michigan Law Review
The scope of Supreme Court precedent is capacious. Justices of the Court commonly defer to sweeping rationales and elaborate doctrinal frameworks articulated by their predecessors. This practice infuses judicial precedent with the prescriptive power of enacted constitutional and statutory text. The lower federal courts follow suit, regularly abiding by the Supreme Court’s broad pronouncements. These phenomena cannot be explained by—and, indeed, oftentimes subvert—the classic distinction between binding holdings and dispensable dicta. This Article connects the scope of precedent with recurring and foundational debates about the proper ends of judicial interpretation. A precedent’s forward- looking effect should not depend on the …
Ser Y Tiempo Jurídicos (Juridical Being And Time), Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
Ser Y Tiempo Jurídicos (Juridical Being And Time), Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba
El estudio contiene una profundización metafísica del análisis de la dinámica jurídica. Para explicarla se aplican los poderosos conceptos griegos de ser y potencia, con los que los antiguos pudieron resolver el problema del tiempo y del cambio cósmico. Por eso el artículo comienza modulando para el derecho estas nociones griegas, de los cuales resultan los conceptos metafísicos de “ser jurídico” y “potencia jurídica”, para luego arribar al concepto de “espacio jurídico”. Con esta triada de nociones se puede, entonces, resolver el tema del cambio y el tiempo jurídico, como se hace al final del trabajo.
This article contains a …