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June 27, 2020: Report On The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 27, 2020: Report On The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Report on The Universe Is On Our Side“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 21, 2020: Is Every White Person A Racist?, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 21, 2020: Is Every White Person A Racist?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Is Every White Person a Racist?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Racism Is White People’S Fault. It’S Our Responsibility To End It, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

Racism Is White People’S Fault. It’S Our Responsibility To End It, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

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


June 20, 2020: White Racism Matters, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 20, 2020: White Racism Matters, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


The Philosophy Of Law For A Naturalist: An Introduction To Artificial Law Theory, Dan Priel Jun 2020

The Philosophy Of Law For A Naturalist: An Introduction To Artificial Law Theory, Dan Priel

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The aim of this essay is to provide an outline for a naturalistic approach to jurisprudence. It begins by arguing for certain reorientations away from certain questions currently preoccupy legal philosophers but should not. The question of the nature of law is, as currently understood, a misguided question. The questions of the metaphysics and the normativity of law, by contrast, are problematic in a different sense: It is not clear that law raises any special questions with respect to them. Following on that I offer a more positive agenda for naturalistic jurisprudence. Starting with methodology, I argue that there is …


June 8, 2020: James Bennet Resigns, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 8, 2020: James Bennet Resigns, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


June 5, 2020: On Criticizing Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 5, 2020: On Criticizing Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


June 3, 2020: Why Have Taxes At All?, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2020

June 3, 2020: Why Have Taxes At All?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Have Taxes At All?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 31, 2020: Regarding This Moment, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 31, 2020: Regarding This Moment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


Sister Helen Prejean And The Death Penalty: Decades Of Fighting Capital Punishment, University Marketing And Communications, Helen Prejean May 2020

Sister Helen Prejean And The Death Penalty: Decades Of Fighting Capital Punishment, University Marketing And Communications, Helen Prejean

DePaul Download

Sister Helen Prejean has dedicated her life to opposing the death penalty after she witnessed an execution in her home state of Louisiana. Her efforts have sparked a national dialogue on capital punishment and she has helped shape the Catholic Church’s position on the topic. In 2011, she donated her personal archives to the university to help the DePaul community continue to learn from her work. On this episode of DePaul Download, Sister Helen talks about life’s work and what keeps her going.


May 23, 2020: Every Once In A While…, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 23, 2020: Every Once In A While…, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


Augustine, Lawyers & The Lost Virtue Of Humility, Bruce P. Frohnen May 2020

Augustine, Lawyers & The Lost Virtue Of Humility, Bruce P. Frohnen

Catholic University Law Review

The leading edge of legal scholarship and practice in recent decades has evinced a commitment to progressive politics at the expense of constitutional governance, the rule of law, and justice understood as vindication of the reasonable expectations of both the public and the parties to any given case or controversy. This article argues that renewed understanding of the virtue of humility, rooted in a genuine concern to do good according to one’s abilities, rights, and duties, is essential to the maintenance of decency in the legal profession and society as a whole. Such virtue is allowed, if not required, by …


May 20, 2020: Dropping The Flynn Case Was The Right Thing To Do, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 20, 2020: Dropping The Flynn Case Was The Right Thing To Do, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Dropping the Flynn Case Was the Right Thing to do“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 18, 2020: Why Have Taxes At All?, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 18, 2020: Why Have Taxes At All?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Have Taxes At All?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Normative Molecule: Patent Rights And Dna, Saurabh Vishnubhakat May 2020

The Normative Molecule: Patent Rights And Dna, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Faculty Scholarship

Throughout the biotechnology age, fears about the distortionary effects of property and other legal institutions upon the health and self-determination of individuals and societies have accompanied more popularly sensational fears about unscrupulous choices within the scientific community itself. Still, for most of that time the prevailing legal regime both in the United States and in Europe remained generally permissive of ownership of, and exclusionary power over, the fruits of much biomedical research, though this leniency took different forms and came about in different ways. In particular, the policy of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to grant patents on …


May 11, 2020: Why Can’T We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 11, 2020: Why Can’T We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Can’t We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 10, 2020: Panic About The Future, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 10, 2020: Panic About The Future, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


May 5, 2020: Preparing The Ground To Overrule Roe?+A5, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 5, 2020: Preparing The Ground To Overrule Roe?+A5, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Preparing the Ground to Overrule Roe?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 5, 2020: The National Day Of Prayer For The Coronavirus, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 5, 2020: The National Day Of Prayer For The Coronavirus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The National Day of Prayer for the Coronavirus“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 2, 2020: What Does Over-Caution Signify?, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 2, 2020: What Does Over-Caution Signify?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ What Does Over-Caution Signify?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Epistemic Function Of Fusing Equal Protection And Due Process, Deborah Hellman May 2020

The Epistemic Function Of Fusing Equal Protection And Due Process, Deborah Hellman

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The fusion of equal protection and due process has attracted significant attention with scholars offering varied accounts of its purpose and function. Some see the combination as productive, creating a constitutional violation that neither clause would generate alone. Others see the combination as merely strategic, offered to make a claim acceptable at a particular historical moment but not genuinely necessary. This Article offers a third alternative. Judges have and should bring both equal protection and due process together to learn what each clause independently requires. On this Epistemic vision of constitutional fusion, a focus on equality helps judges learn what …


Law Is What The Judge Had For Breakfast: A Brief History Of An Unpalatable Idea, Dan Priel May 2020

Law Is What The Judge Had For Breakfast: A Brief History Of An Unpalatable Idea, Dan Priel

Articles & Book Chapters

According to a familiar adage the legal realists equated law with what the judge had for breakfast. As this is sometimes used to ridicule the realists, prominent defenders of legal realism have countered that none of the realists ever entertained any such idea. In this Essay I show that this is inaccurate. References to this idea are found in the work of Karl Llewellyn and Jerome Frank, as well as in the works of their contemporaries, both friends and foes. However, the Essay also shows that the idea is improperly attributed to the legal realists, as there are many references …


Equality's Understudies, Aziz Z. Huq May 2020

Equality's Understudies, Aziz Z. Huq

Michigan Law Review

Review of Robert L. Tsai's Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation.


Competition Wrongs, Nicolas Cornell May 2020

Competition Wrongs, Nicolas Cornell

Articles

In both philosophical and legal circles, it is typically assumed that wrongs depend upon having one’s rights violated. But within any market-based economy, market participants may be wronged by the conduct of other actors in the marketplace. Due to my illicit business tactics, you may lose profits, customers, employees, reputation, access to capital, or any number of other sources of value. This Article argues that such competition wrongs are an example of wrongs that arise without an underlying right, contrary to the typical philosophical and legal assumption. The Article thus draws upon various forms of business law to illustrate what …


The Mystery Of Law: A Critical Analysis Of H.L.A Hart’S The Concept Of Law, Stephen Mark Gray Ii Apr 2020

The Mystery Of Law: A Critical Analysis Of H.L.A Hart’S The Concept Of Law, Stephen Mark Gray Ii

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the role of morality in law through a critical examination of the work of one of the most widely cited and renowned judicial scholars, H.L.A. Hart. His modified theory of positivism, which denotes that law and morality are separable and that legal rules may have any content, has had an enduring impact on the landscape of judicial thought in the last century. As Hart’s work has had an indelible hand in shaping analytical jurisprudence and as it exemplifies the antithesis of my argument, it will serve as a theoretical foil. From it, I hope to articulate my …


Lying And Cheating, Or Self-Help And Civil Disobedience?, Aditi Bagchi Apr 2020

Lying And Cheating, Or Self-Help And Civil Disobedience?, Aditi Bagchi

Brooklyn Law Review

May poor sellers lie to rich buyers? This article argues that, under limited circumstances, sellers may indeed have a license to lie about their goods. Where sellers are losers under unjust background institutions and they reasonably believe that buyers have more than they would under just institutions, lies that result in de minimum transfers can be regarded as a kind of self-help. More generally, what we owe each other in our interpersonal interactions depends on the institutional backdrop. Consumer contract law, including its enforcement regimes, should recognize the social and political contingency of sellers’ obligations to buyers. In other contexts, …


April 25, 2020: The Disenchantment Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 25, 2020: The Disenchantment Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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


April 23, 2020: My Take On Government Abuse During The Pandemic, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 23, 2020: My Take On Government Abuse During The Pandemic, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ My take on government abuse during the pandemic“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 19, 2020: Our Hyper Partisanship Is Showing, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 19, 2020: Our Hyper Partisanship Is Showing, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Our Hyper Partisanship is Showing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 12, 2020: On Watching Ben-Hur, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 12, 2020: On Watching Ben-Hur, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “On Watching Ben-Hur“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.