April 17, 2014: Cowardice And Hypocrisy At Brandeis,
2014
Duquesne University
April 17, 2014: Cowardice And Hypocrisy At Brandeis, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Cowardice and Hypocrisy at Brandeis“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 14, 2014: Ross Douthat's Magical Thinking,
2014
Duquesne University
April 14, 2014: Ross Douthat's Magical Thinking, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Ross Douthat's Magical Thinking“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 11, 2014: More Secular Yearning For God,
2014
Duquesne University
April 11, 2014: More Secular Yearning For God, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ More Secular Yearning for God“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 6, 2014: The Death Of A Grandmother,
2014
Duquesne University
April 6, 2014: The Death Of A Grandmother, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Death of a Grandmother“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 3, 2014: Now Get Rid Of The $2600 Limit,
2014
Duquesne University
April 3, 2014: Now Get Rid Of The $2600 Limit, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Now Get Rid of the $2600 Limit“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Globally Speaking—Honoring The Victims' Stories: Matsuda's Human Rights Praxis,
2014
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Globally Speaking—Honoring The Victims' Stories: Matsuda's Human Rights Praxis, Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Globally speaking, international law and the vast majority of domestic legal systems strive to protect the right to freedom of expression. The United States' First Amendment provides an early historical protection of speech-a safeguard now embraced around the world. The extent of this protection, however, varies among states. The United States stands alone in excluding countervailing considerations of equality, dignitary, or privacy interests that would favor restrictions on speech. The gravamen of the argument supporting such American exceptionalism is that free expression is necessary in a democracy. Totalitarianism, the libertarian narrative goes, thrives on government control of information to the …
Taking States (And Metaphysics) Seriously,
2014
University of Texas School of Law
Taking States (And Metaphysics) Seriously, Sanford Levinson
Michigan Law Review
Sotirios A. Barber has written many incisive and important books, in addition to coediting an especially interesting casebook on constitutional law and interpretation. He is also a political theorist. An important part of his overall approach to constitutional theory is his philosophical commitment to “moral realism.” He believes in the metaphysical reality of moral and political truths, the most important of which, for any constitutional theorist, involve the meanings of justice and the common good. He not only believes in the ontological reality of such truths — that is, that these truths are more than mere human conventions or social …
March 28, 2014: Nihilism At The Heart Of Secularism,
2014
Duquesne University
March 28, 2014: Nihilism At The Heart Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Nihilism at the Heart of Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 25, 2014: What’S Going To Happen In The Hobby Lobby Case?,
2014
Duquesne University
March 25, 2014: What’S Going To Happen In The Hobby Lobby Case?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What’s Going to Happen in the Hobby Lobby Case?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 22, 2014: Death,
2014
Duquesne University
March 22, 2014: Death, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Death“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 16, 2014: The New Cosmos Series Plays Out The Old Culture Wars,
2014
Duquesne University
March 16, 2014: The New Cosmos Series Plays Out The Old Culture Wars, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The New Cosmos Series Plays Out the Old Culture Wars“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 14, 2014: How Much Damage Has Nihilism Done?,
2014
Duquesne University
March 14, 2014: How Much Damage Has Nihilism Done?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ How Much Damage Has Nihilism Done?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 11, 2014: Re-Post Of Gay Marriage Op-Ed,
2014
Duquesne University
March 11, 2014: Re-Post Of Gay Marriage Op-Ed, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Re-Post of Gay Marriage op-ed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Pa. Gay Marriage With An Exemption,
2014
Duquesne University
Pa. Gay Marriage With An Exemption, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
March 9, 2014: The Hypocrisy Of Senator Toomey, The Cowardice Of Senator Casey,
2014
Duquesne University
March 9, 2014: The Hypocrisy Of Senator Toomey, The Cowardice Of Senator Casey, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Hypocrisy of Senator Toomey, the Cowardice of Senator Casey“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 4, 2014: Ross Douthat’S Surrender Column,
2014
Duquesne University
March 4, 2014: Ross Douthat’S Surrender Column, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Ross Douthat’s Surrender Column“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 1, 2014: The Attack On Douglas Laycock,
2014
Duquesne University
March 1, 2014: The Attack On Douglas Laycock, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Attack on Douglas Laycock“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Toward A Multiple Consciousness Of Language: A Tribute To Professor Mari Matsuda,
2014
Wake Forest University School of Law
Toward A Multiple Consciousness Of Language: A Tribute To Professor Mari Matsuda, Shannon Gilreath
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
I am thrilled to be part of this commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Professor Matsuda's influential article Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story. I first read Matsuda's essay as a law student when, I must confess, the mind-numbing one-dimensionality of the law-as one must learn it in the prevailing method-drove me a little crazy. Law school is an environment where the Socratic method reduces people's stories-the stuff of which law is made-to something lawyers like to call "the facts," and where real-life people, in whom I saw so much of myself-people like Michael Hardwick, for example-get …
Artificial Meaning,
2014
Texas A&M University School of Law
Artificial Meaning, Lawrence B. Solum
Faculty Scholarship
This Essay investigates the concept of artificial meaning, meanings produced by entities other than individual natural persons. That investigation begins in Part I with a preliminary inquiry into the meaning of “meaning,” in which the concept of meaning is disambiguated. The relevant sense of “meaning” for the purpose of this inquiry is captured by the idea of communicative content, although the phrase “linguistic meaning” is also a rough equivalent. Part II presents a thought experiment, The Chinese Intersection, which investigates the creation of artificial meaning produced by an AI that creates legal rules for the regulation of a hyper-complex conflux …
February 25, 2014: How Does The Secular World Do Without God?,
2014
Duquesne University
February 25, 2014: How Does The Secular World Do Without God?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “How Does the Secular World Do without God?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
