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February 1, 2020: David Brooks And The 4 Narratives, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “David Brooks and the 4 Narratives“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

January 18, 2020: Tamsin Shaw And “The Need For Us To Converge On Some Shared Values To Have A Functioning Form Of Government.”, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, Tamsin Shaw and “the need for us to converge on some shared values to have a functioning form of government.” discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

January 4, 2020: David, It Was Already Done--It's Called Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “David, It Was Already Done--It's Called Hallowed Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Saving Judicial Independence From The Nihilism Of Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

La Constitución De Los Estados Unidos Y Su Dinámica Actual, Robert S. Barker

Barker Books

A collection of conference papers and other publications authored by Professor Robert Barker on various issues of American Constitutionalism. The book also contains three appendices: two are authored by other contributors, and the third and last appendix contains the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

Conceptualizing Appealability: Resisting The Supreme Court's Categorical Imperative, Richard L. Heppner Jr.

Law Faculty Publications

This paper draws on insights from cognitive psychology to understand how courts conceive of categories of orders. Cognitive psychologists have shown that people understand the world using not only "classical categories" based on logical definitions, but also "conceptual categories" based on fuzzier, intuitive concepts of similarity and typicality. This paper approaches appealability as a two-step process-first, categorizing the order and, second, applying the appropriate doctrine. Previous interventions have focused on whether different doctrines use rules or standards at the second step. This paper focuses on the initial categorization step.

This paper makes two contributions to the study of federal appealability. …

Ai Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money!, Ashley M. London

Law Faculty Publications

AI systems are powerful technologies being built and implemented by private corporations motivated by profit, not altruism. Change makers, such as attorneys and law students, must therefore be educated on the benefits, detriments, and pitfalls of the rapid spread, and often secret implementation of this technology. The implementation is secret because private corporations place proprietary AI systems inside of black boxes to conceal what is inside. If they did not, the popular myth that AI systems are unbiased machines crunching inherently objective data would be revealed as a falsehood. Algorithms created to run AI systems reflect the inherent human categorization …

December 29, 2019: Secular Responses To Anti-Semitic Violence, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Secular Responses to anti-Semitic Violence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

December 25, 2019: Christmas 2019, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Christmas 2019“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

December 22, 2019: Light In This Dark Season, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

December 17, 2019: Today's Column On Hate Speech In The Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Today's column on hate speech in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Think We’Re Powerless Against Hate Speech? The Constitution Provides Plenty Of Room To Address It, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

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

December 7, 2019: Churchill Champions Free Trade And Castigates Republican Tariffs As Secular, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Churchill Champions Free Trade and Castigates Republican Tariffs as Secular“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

December 4, 2019: A Good Day For The Rule Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “A Good Day for the Rule of Law“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Calif. Supreme Court Right To Strike Down Law Requiring Trump To Release Tax Returns To Get On The Ballot, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

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

November 28, 2019: Happy Thanksgiving, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

November 22, 2019: What Is The Point Of This Column?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is the Point of this Column?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

November 19, 2019: Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

November 14, 2019: What’S Wrong With Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What’s Wrong With Impeachment“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

November 7, 2019: The Politics Of Carl Schmidt Versus The Politics Of Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Politics of Carl Schmidt versus the politics of Abraham Lincoln“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

October 27, 2019: The Shooter And The Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

October 22, 2019: What Is The Universe?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

October 14, 2019: Why The Democrats Need To Tap The Brakes On Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why the Democrats Need to Tap the Brakes on Impeachment“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

October 9, 2019: Yom Kippur And The Shootings, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

October 2, 2019: What Are The High Holy Days About?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What are the High Holy Days About?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 22, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast--Where You Can Hear It Now, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Bends Toward Justice Podcast--Where You Can Hear It Now“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 22, 2019: Nihilism In The Heartland, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

September 14, 2019: Constitution Day 2019, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Constitution Day 2019“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 12, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast Debuts This Week, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Bends Toward Justice Podcast Debuts This Week“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 31, 2019: Is Hallowed Secularism Any Longer The Question?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Is Hallowed Secularism Any Longer the Question?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.