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Why Secular Society Desperately Needs The Recognition Of Religious Holidays, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2021

Why Secular Society Desperately Needs The Recognition Of Religious Holidays, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


How Should The Law Adjust To The Rittenhouse Verdict?, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2021

How Should The Law Adjust To The Rittenhouse Verdict?, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


Moby-Dick As Corporate Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, And Redemption, David Yosifon Dec 2021

Moby-Dick As Corporate Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, And Redemption, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick serves here as a vehicle through which to interrogate core features of American corporate law and excavate some of the deeper lessons about the human soul that lurk behind the pasteboard mask of the law’s black letter. The inquiry yields an illuminating vantage on the ethical consequences of corporate capital structure, the law of corporate purpose, the meaning of voluntarism, the ethical stakes of corporate fiduciary obligations, and the role of lawyers in preventing or facilitating corporate catastrophe. No prior familiarity with the novel or corporate law is required.


Stop Calling Kyle Rittenhouse A Hero. He Killed Two Unarmed People, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2021

Stop Calling Kyle Rittenhouse A Hero. He Killed Two Unarmed People, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


Maybe Deficits Do Matter After All, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2021

Maybe Deficits Do Matter After All, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


No, This Isn’T Facebook’S ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2021

No, This Isn’T Facebook’S ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


November 1, 2021: The Migration Of New Content To Bruceledewitz.Com, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2021

November 1, 2021: The Migration Of New Content To Bruceledewitz.Com, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Migration of New Content to bruceledewitz.com“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Here's What's At Stake In Texas Abortion Case Before U.S. Supreme Court, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2021

Here's What's At Stake In Texas Abortion Case Before U.S. Supreme Court, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


October 13, 2021: The Case For Joe Biden, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2021

October 13, 2021: The Case For Joe Biden, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Case for Joe Biden“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


No, Joe Biden And The Dems Are Not Collapsing, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2021

No, Joe Biden And The Dems Are Not Collapsing, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


October 8, 2021: Tune In To The Grimes Lecture I Delivered Yesterday At Bethany College, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2021

October 8, 2021: Tune In To The Grimes Lecture I Delivered Yesterday At Bethany College, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Tune in to the Grimes Lecture I Delivered Yesterday at Bethany College“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 3, 2021: A Response To My Column Criticizing The National Vote Compact--What Ledewitz Missed, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2021

October 3, 2021: A Response To My Column Criticizing The National Vote Compact--What Ledewitz Missed, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “A Response to My Column Criticizing the National Vote Compact--What Ledewitz Missed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Addressing The Harms Of Pornography, Gillian Allison Oct 2021

Addressing The Harms Of Pornography, Gillian Allison

Honors Theses

Within this paper I look at the existing philosophical work on pornography, from scholars like Catherine MacKinnon, Ronald Dworkin, and Rae Langton to show the current state of the pornography debate that I intend to enter by presenting my own argument about the morality of pornography. I argue that while pornography is harmful, these harms are best resolved through increased sexual education and the popularization and production of more inclusive pornography. The harms pornography causes are so great because pornography is where a lot of people learn about sex. Pornography was never designed to depict an average sexual experience. If …


What Is "United" About The United States?, Gary S. Lawson Oct 2021

What Is "United" About The United States?, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

Jack Balkin’s The Cycles of Constitutional Time aims, among other things, to preserve and promote what Jack regards as “democracy and republicanism,” understood as “a joint enterprise by citizens and their representatives to pursue and promote the public good.” My question is whether and how this normative project is possible in a world full of perceptions of social, political, and moral phenomena akin to the white dress/blue dress internet controversy of 2015. Even if Madison had the better of Montesquieu in 1788 (and that is questionable), the United States has grown dramatically since the founding era, in a patchwork, and …


The 2021 Race For Pa. Supreme Court: The Questions The Candidates Have To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

The 2021 Race For Pa. Supreme Court: The Questions The Candidates Have To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


September 28, 2021: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race--I Don't Trust The Democrats And I Am Afraid Of The Republicans, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 28, 2021: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race--I Don't Trust The Democrats And I Am Afraid Of The Republicans, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Race--I don't trust the Democrats and I am afraid of the Republicans“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 20, 2021: Two Recent Columns--The Texas Anti-Abortion Statute And Justice Wecht And The Death Of God, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 20, 2021: Two Recent Columns--The Texas Anti-Abortion Statute And Justice Wecht And The Death Of God, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Two Recent Columns--the Texas Anti-Abortion statute and Justice Wecht and the Death of God“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 2, 2021: The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 2, 2021: The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The steal in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 16, 2021: Forgiveness, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 16, 2021: Forgiveness, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Forgiveness“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Did Pa. Supreme Court Justice David Wecht Herald The Death Of God?, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

Did Pa. Supreme Court Justice David Wecht Herald The Death Of God?, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


I Am Resigning From The Pro-Life Movement, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

I Am Resigning From The Pro-Life Movement, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


September 11, 2021: Twenty Years Later, 9/11 Is Finally Over, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 11, 2021: Twenty Years Later, 9/11 Is Finally Over, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Twenty Years Later, 9/11 is finally over“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 10, 2021: Secular Repentence, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

September 10, 2021: Secular Repentence, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Secular Repentence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Explained, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2021

The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Explained, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


August 20, 2021: Defend Mo Brooks; Don't Prosecute Donald Trump--This Week's Column In The Pa Capital-Star, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

August 20, 2021: Defend Mo Brooks; Don't Prosecute Donald Trump--This Week's Column In The Pa Capital-Star, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Defend Mo Brooks; Don't Prosecute Donald Trump--this week's column in the Pa Capital-Star“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Doj’S Refusal To Defend Mo Brooks Was Wrong; Prosecuting Trump Would Be Worse, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

Doj’S Refusal To Defend Mo Brooks Was Wrong; Prosecuting Trump Would Be Worse, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


August 15, 2021: What Has Gone Wrong And What Can We Do About It?, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

August 15, 2021: What Has Gone Wrong And What Can We Do About It?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Has Gone Wrong and What Can We Do About It?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 14, 2021: Lale Gul Wants To Lie On The Beach In A Bikin, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

August 14, 2021: Lale Gul Wants To Lie On The Beach In A Bikin, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Lale Gul Wants to Lie on the Beach in a Bikin“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 3, 2021: The Startup Wife Shows We Need Help With Our Spiritual Infrastructure--This Week's Column, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

August 3, 2021: The Startup Wife Shows We Need Help With Our Spiritual Infrastructure--This Week's Column, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Startup Wife Shows We Need Help With Our Spiritual Infrastructure--This Week's Column“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


What A Novel Can Teach Us About Religion In America, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2021

What A Novel Can Teach Us About Religion In America, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.