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How To Fix Legal Scholarmush, Adam Kolber
How To Fix Legal Scholarmush, Adam Kolber
Indiana Law Journal
Legal scholars often fail to distinguish descriptive claims about what the law is from normative claims about what it ought to be. The distinction couldn’t be more important, yet scholars frequently mix it up, leading them to mistake legal authority for moral authority, treat current law as a justification for itself, and generally use rhetorical strategies more appropriate for legal practice than scholarship. As a result, scholars sometimes talk past each other, generating not scholarship but “scholarmush.”
In recent years, legal scholarship has been criticized as too theoretical. When it comes to normative scholarship, however, the criticism is off the …
Foreword (Public Law), Paul Craig
The Cosmopolitan Turn In Constitutionalism: An Integrated Conception Of Public Law, Mattias Kumm
The Cosmopolitan Turn In Constitutionalism: An Integrated Conception Of Public Law, Mattias Kumm
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
If the point of constitutionalism is to define the legal framework within which collective self-government can legitimately take place, constitutionalism has to take a cosmopolitan turn: it has to occupy itself with the global legitimacy conditions for the exercise of state sovereignty. Contrary to widely made implicit assumptions in constitutional theory and practice, constitutional legitimacy is not self-standing. Whether a national constitution and the political practices authorized by it are legitimate does not depend only on the appropriate democratic quality and rights-respecting nature of domestic legal practices. Instead, national constitutional legitimacy depends, in part, on how the national constitution is …