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August 10, 2014: Foolish Way To Support Israel, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

August 6, 2014: Really Good News In Gaza, Bruce Ledewitz

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

August 2, 2014: Christianity And The State, Bruce Ledewitz

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

Everyone Knew He Did It, But He Was Not Condemned! Knowledge And Knowledge Attributions In Legal Contexts, Danny Marrero Avendano

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Theorizing about knowledge attributions has revolved almost exclusively around the problem of skepticism and knowledge attributions in everyday conversations. Sutton (2007), however, points out that Epistemic Contextualism seems to settle another field: "[i]t is sometimes suggested that courtroom proceedings provide a context that shows the context-sensitivity of knowledge ascription truth-conditions" (p. 87). This dissertation is devoted to the evaluation of this contextualist suggestion (CS). Epistemic Contextualism claims that the correctness of knowledge attributions depends on the salience of error possibilities or the practical states of a knowledge attributor's context of utterance. I interpret CS implies that the context of utterance …

July 30, 2014: The Best Written Sports Illustrated Issue Ever, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Best Written Sports Illustrated Issue Ever“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 28, 2014: Americans Are Israelis, Bruce Ledewitz

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

July 26, 2014: The Return Of Teleology, Bruce Ledewitz

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

July 19, 2014: The Problem With Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz

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

July 19, 2014: Break Until Friday, 7/25, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Break Until Friday, 7/25“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 17, 2014: A Good Letter On Discrimination, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “A Good Letter on Discrimination“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 12, 2014: What Is The Theology Behind Religious Exemptions?, Bruce Ledewitz

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

July 10, 2014: The Basic Orientation Of Secular Society To Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Basic Orientation of Secular Society to Religious Exemptions“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 7, 2014: Ross Douthat Calls Out Liberals, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Ross Douthat Calls Out Liberals“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 4, 2014: Hobby Lobby, Next Stop, Bruce Ledewitz

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

July 1, 2014: Another Reason To Hate Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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

Epistemologies Of The South And Human Rights: Santos And The Quest For Global And Cognitive Justice, Jose-Manuel Barreto

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article offers an introduction to Boaventura de Sousa Santos's general philosophical orientation, explores the concepts of "abyssal thinking" and "epistemologies of the South," and draws consequences for the theory of human rights, taking into consideration the idea of rewriting the history of rights in the context of colonialism and Santos's proposal of a post-abyssal conception of rights and intercultural dialogue. This piece ends with some considerations on the cultural and political conditions for advancing a new understanding of human rights.

Introduction To The Symposium On Ronald Dworkin's Religion Without God, James E. Fleming

Faculty Scholarship

Boston University School of Law and the Boston University Law Review are proud to publish this Symposium on Dworkin’s final book, Religion Without God (Harvard University Press, 2013), as a sequel to our 2009 Symposium on his Justice for Hedgehogs. The Symposium includes an introduction and eulogy by James E. Fleming and contributions by a number of the most distinguished scholars of law and religion in the United States and the United Kingdom: Jeremy Waldron, Stephen L. Carter, Paul Horwitz, Andrew Koppelman, Cécile Laborde, Linda C. McClain, Micah Schwartzman, and Steven D. Smith.

June 25, 2014: The Coming Revolution In Islam, Bruce Ledewitz

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

June 22, 2014: You Cannot Make Peace With These People, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “You Cannot Make Peace With These People“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 18, 2014: The Decline Of Islam, Bruce Ledewitz

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

June 13, 2014: The New Spirituality, Bruce Ledewitz

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

June 9, 2014: “It Matters What’S True.”, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ “It matters what’s true.”“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 5, 2014: Do You Have To Believe In God To Be Jewish?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ Do You Have To Believe in God to Be Jewish?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Rejecting The Legal Process Theory Joker: Bill Nelson's Scholarship On Judge Edward Weinfeld And Justice Byron White, Brad Snyder

Chicago-Kent Law Review

My contribution to this tribute places Bill Nelson’s scholarship about Judge Edward Weinfeld and Justice Byron White within several contexts. It is a personal history of Nelson the law student, law clerk, and young scholar; an intellectual history of legal theory since the 1960s; an examination of the influence of legal theory on Nelson’s scholarship based on his writings about Weinfeld and White; and an example of how legal historians contend with the subject of judicial reputation. Nelson was one of many former Warren Court and Burger Court clerks who joined the professoriate and rejected the legal process theory that …

The Federal Rules At 75: Dispute Resolution, Private Enforcement Or Decisions According To Law?, James R. Maxeiner

Georgia State University Law Review

This essay is a critical response to the 2013 commemorations of the75th anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were introduced in 1938 to provide procedure to decide cases on their merits. The Rules were designed to replace decisions under the “sporting theory of justice”with decisions according to law.

By 1976, at midlife, it was clear that they were not achieving their goal. America’s proceduralists split into two sides about what to do. One side promotes rules that control and conclude litigation: e.g.,plausibility pleading, case management, limited discovery, cost indemnity for discovery, and summary …

May 29, 2014: The Privatization Of Health Care, Bruce Ledewitz

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

May 23, 2014: Governor's Move Pure Politics, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ Governor's Move Pure Politics“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 17, 2014: The End Of Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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

May 14, 2014: When Science And Religion Mixed, Bruce Ledewitz

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

May 11, 2014: Would The World Be Better Off Without Religion?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Would the World Be Better Off Without Religion?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.