February 12, 2013: The Absurdity Of Corporate Religious Freedom,
2013
Duquesne University
February 12, 2013: The Absurdity Of Corporate Religious Freedom, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Absurdity of Corporate Religious Freedom“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 9, 2013: Nihilism At Sports Illustrated,
2013
Duquesne University
February 9, 2013: Nihilism At Sports Illustrated, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Nihilism at Sports Illustrated“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 6, 2013: Why Tolerate Conscience?,
2013
Duquesne University
February 6, 2013: Why Tolerate Conscience?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Why Tolerate Conscience?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 3, 2013: The Response To Obama’S Contraception Initiative,
2013
Duquesne University
February 3, 2013: The Response To Obama’S Contraception Initiative, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Response to Obama’s Contraception Initiative“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 30, 2013: Mind And Cosmos,
2013
Duquesne University
January 30, 2013: Mind And Cosmos, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Mind and Cosmos“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 24, 2013: What Was President Obama’S Speech About?,
2013
Duquesne University
January 24, 2013: What Was President Obama’S Speech About?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What Was President Obama’s Speech About?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 20, 2013: Jeffrey Tucker Defends The Morality Of Markets At Duquesne University Talk,
2013
Duquesne University
January 20, 2013: Jeffrey Tucker Defends The Morality Of Markets At Duquesne University Talk, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Jeffrey Tucker Defends the Morality of Markets at Duquesne University Talk“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 17, 2013: I Agree With Some Of The Words Of Pastor Louie Giglio,
2013
Duquesne University
January 17, 2013: I Agree With Some Of The Words Of Pastor Louie Giglio, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “I Agree With Some of the Words of Pastor Louie Giglio“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 13, 2013: Why Tolerate Religion? Because Secularists Need It,
2013
Duquesne University
January 13, 2013: Why Tolerate Religion? Because Secularists Need It, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Why Tolerate Religion? Because Secularists Need It“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 11, 2013: Rest Of Taking Nihilism Seriously , Parts 4&5,
2013
Duquesne University
January 11, 2013: Rest Of Taking Nihilism Seriously , Parts 4&5, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Rest of Taking Nihilism Seriously , Parts 4&5“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 8, 2013: More On Taking Nihilism Seriously, Part 3,
2013
Duquesne University
January 8, 2013: More On Taking Nihilism Seriously, Part 3, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “More On Taking Nihilism Seriously, Part 3“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 7, 2013: The Error Of Theism And Atheism Is The Same And Must Be Overcome Together,
2013
Duquesne University
January 7, 2013: The Error Of Theism And Atheism Is The Same And Must Be Overcome Together, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Error of Theism and Atheism is the Same and Must be Overcome Together“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 6, 2013: On Taking Nihilism Seriously,
2013
Duquesne University
January 6, 2013: On Taking Nihilism Seriously, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “On Taking Nihilism Seriously“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 5, 2013: Restoring The Lost Constitution,
2013
Duquesne University
January 5, 2013: Restoring The Lost Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Restoring the Lost Constitution“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Instrumentalist And Holmesian Voices In The Rhetoric Of Reapportionment: The Opinions Of Justices Brennan And Frankfurter In Baker V. Carr,
2013
Barry University
Instrumentalist And Holmesian Voices In The Rhetoric Of Reapportionment: The Opinions Of Justices Brennan And Frankfurter In Baker V. Carr, Carlo A. Pedrioli
Faculty Scholarship
In his autobiography, Chief Justice Earl Warren described Baker v.Carr as “the most important case of [his] tenure on the Court.” Following Brown v. Board of Education by eight years, Baker was the second “blockbuster” case of the Warren Court. Warren felt that, if the progeny of Baker had preceded Brown, Brown would have been unnecessary. As with other major Supreme Court cases, Baker featured rhetoric from highly influential justices, two of whom in this case were Justice William Brennan and Justice Felix Frankfurter. Justice Brennan would write the groundbreaking opinion for the Court that would be part of “the …
Process For The Dispossessed: Procedural Rights From Magna Carta To Modern International Law,
2013
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Process For The Dispossessed: Procedural Rights From Magna Carta To Modern International Law, Mark A. Drumbl
Scholarly Articles
Due process matters greatly to distinguished philosopher Larry May, who advocates for a vigourous assertion of procedural rights as constituting an international rule of law. He undertakes this ambitious, a la fois aspirational, task in Global Justice and Due Process.
What Marriage Law Can Learn From Citizenship Law (And Vice Versa),
2013
University of Denver
What Marriage Law Can Learn From Citizenship Law (And Vice Versa), Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Citizenship and marriage are legal statuses that generate numerous privileges and responsibilities. Legal doctrine and argument have analogized these statuses in passing: consider, for example, Ted Olson’s statement in the Hollingsworth v. Perry oral argument that denying the label “marriage” to gay unions “is like you were to say you can vote, you can travel, but you may not be a citizen.” However, the parallel between citizenship and marriage has rarely been investigated in depth. This paper investigates the marriage-citizenship parallel with a particular focus on three questions prompted by recent developments in law and policy: 1) Should we provide …
Review Of Corrective Justice, By E. Weinrib,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Review Of Corrective Justice, By E. Weinrib, Scott Hershovitz
Reviews
I once heard it said of a famous philosopher of law that he never allowed his philosophy to be polluted by law. No one will ever say that about Ernie Weinrib. His latest book - Corrective Justice - is exceptional precisely because Weinrib is deeply informed about legal doctrine. Of course, he also has formidable philosophical skill, and in bringing that to bear on doctrine, he dismantles any thought that corrective justice is too abstract a concept to shed light on the practical problems that courts face. Along the way, he also demol ishes the instrumentalism that has recently dominated …
Outing The Majority: Gay Rights, Public Debate, And Polarization After Doe V. Reed,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Outing The Majority: Gay Rights, Public Debate, And Polarization After Doe V. Reed, Marc Allen
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
In 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Doe v. Reed that Washington citizens who signed a petition to eliminate legal rights for LGBT couples did not have a right to keep their names secret. A year later, in ProtectMarriage.com v. Bowen, a district court in California partially relied on Reed to reject a similar request from groups who lobbied for California Proposition 8-a constitutional amendment that overturned the California Supreme Court's landmark 2008 gay marriage decision. These holdings are important to election law, feminist, and first amendment scholars for a number of reasons. First, they flip the traditional …
Dignity As Perception: Recognition Of The Human Individual And The Individual Animal In Legal Thought,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Dignity As Perception: Recognition Of The Human Individual And The Individual Animal In Legal Thought, Joseph Vining
Book Chapters
'To their murderers these wretched people were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were treated worse than animals.' This was Telford Taylor, beginning the presentation of the 'Medical Case' at the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War. The 'Medical Case' was not about genocide or war or the conduct of war. It was about experimentation on human beings; and it was this trial that produced the 'Nuremberg Code', the first control of such treatment of human beings by one another. The word 'individual' came naturally to Taylor the lawyer as a starting point, and with …
