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September 15, 2018: Who’S Afraid Of The Russians?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Who’s Afraid of the Russians?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 11, 2018: 9/11 R.I.P., Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “9/11 R.I.P.“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 9, 2018: Happy New Year, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

September 2, 2018: When Does Disagreement On Climate Become Dishonesty?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ When Does Disagreement on Climate Become Dishonesty?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

The Plot To Overthrow Genocide: State Laws Mandating Education About The Foulest Crime Of All

Marquette Law Review

This Article shines a light on a little noticed phenomenon in American law: the promulgation of ten state statutes and one state regulation, each requiring education about genocide in elementary and/or secondary schools. The mandates, adopted from 1989 through 2018, appear to be only the beginning inasmuch as in 2017 another nineteen states publicly pledged to pass such mandates as well.

The Article describes each of the existing mandates and compares them to each other, including an analysis of the laws’ respective strong and weak points. This exposition, of interest in itself, also sets the stage for proposals to improve …

August 30, 2018: Needed: A New Ontology And Epistemology, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Needed: A New Ontology and Epistemology“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 24, 2018: The Coming Desperate Struggle, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

August 23, 2018: Busy Day For Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Busy Day for Hallowed Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 21, 2018: Pantheism And Penentheism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

August 17, 2018: This Social Democratic Moment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

Owning The Land: Four Contemporary Narratives, Eric T. Freyfogle

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

Our 1997-1998 Distinguished Lecturer authored an Essay addressing property ownership questions in view of four contemporary narratives of land ownership. This Essay discusses in turn the libertarian narrative of individual autonomy, the more traditional narrative of property focused on economic opportunity, a community-centered narrative that understands property as an evolving tool to meet community needs, and a biocentric narrative that looks to the land itself to prescribe the rules on how it can be used. This discussion begins reviewing these tales with the one that has stirred up the most controversy lately, the narrative of autonomy. It is in this …

August 15, 2018: The Catholic Church Child Abuse Scandal Comes Out, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Catholic Church Child Abuse Scandal Comes Out“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 12, 2018: Decent Republicans, Especially Law Professors, Have Got To Stop Voter Suppression, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Decent Republicans, Especially Law Professors, Have Got to Stop Voter Suppression“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 10, 2018: The Lynne Kelly Quote, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

August 4, 2018: What Can We Learn From The Failure Of Four Secular Democracies?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Can We Learn From the Failure of Four Secular Democracies?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 3, 2018: The Media As Enemy Of The People, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Media as Enemy of the People“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

'Neurophobia,' A Reply To Patterson, Peter A. Alces

Faculty Publications

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The History, Meaning, And Use Of The Words Justice And Judge, Jason Boatright

St. Mary's Law Journal

The words justice and judge have similar meanings because they have a common ancestry. They are derived from the same Latin term, jus, which is defined in dictionaries as “right” and “law.” However, those definitions of jus are so broad that they obscure the details of what the term meant when it formed the words that eventually became justice and judge. The etymology of jus reveals the kind of right and law it signified was related to the concepts of restriction and obligation. Vestiges of this sense of jus survived in the meaning of justice and judge. …

July 28, 2018: The Truth-Justice-Democracy Initiative, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

July 27, 2018: Special Prosecutors Are A Menace, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Special Prosecutors Are a Menace“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.