July 29, 2020: Gop Meddling With The Courts,
2020
Duquesne University
July 29, 2020: Gop Meddling With The Courts, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “GOP Meddling with the Courts“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
In Harrisburg And D.C., The Gop Meddling With Our Courts Is A Threat To Democracy,
2020
Duquesne University
In Harrisburg And D.C., The Gop Meddling With Our Courts Is A Threat To Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
From The Tree Of Knowledge And The Golem Of Prague To Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes,
2020
Edith Cowan University
From The Tree Of Knowledge And The Golem Of Prague To Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes, Nachshon Goltz, John Zeleznikow, Tracey Dowdeswell
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
This article discusses the regulation of artificial intelligence from a Jewish perspective, with an emphasis on the regulation of machine learning and its application to autonomous vehicles and machine learning. Through the Biblical story of Adam and Eve as well as Golem legends from Jewish folklore, we derive several basic principles that underlie a Jewish perspective on the moral and legal personhood of robots and other artificially intelligent agents. We argue that religious ethics in general, and Jewish ethics in particular, show us that the dangers of granting moral personhood to robots and in particular to autonomous vehicles lie not …
July 26, 2020: No Federal Police Power,
2020
Duquesne University
July 26, 2020: No Federal Police Power, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No Federal Police Power“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 15, 2020: For The Sake Of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare,
2020
Duquesne University
July 15, 2020: For The Sake Of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “For the Sake of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 24, 2020: No Federal Police Power,
2020
Duquesne University
July 24, 2020: No Federal Police Power, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No Federal Police Power“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 19, 2020: Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status,
2020
Duquesne University
July 19, 2020: Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
If We’Re Serious About Protecting Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare,
2020
Duquesne University
If We’Re Serious About Protecting Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
July 14, 2020: The Fantasyland Of American Public Discourse,
2020
Duquesne University
July 14, 2020: The Fantasyland Of American Public Discourse, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Fantasyland of American Public Discourse“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 4, 2020: Happy Fourth Of July,
2020
Duquesne University
July 4, 2020: Happy Fourth Of July, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Happy Fourth of July“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Are We Witnessing The Death Of Reason And Truth In American Public Life?,
2020
Duquesne University
Are We Witnessing The Death Of Reason And Truth In American Public Life?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
July 1, 2020: Originalism Is Dead,
2020
Duquesne University
July 1, 2020: Originalism Is Dead, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Originalism Is Dead“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Choosing Affordable Health Insurance,
2020
University of Denver
Choosing Affordable Health Insurance, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The Affordable Care Act ("ACA") made health insurance accessible to many. Yet unaffordable insurance still abounds. This Article proposes a strategy for improving affordability that enables health insurance purchasers to choose, within reasonable limits, which treatments their insurance covers. After critiquing recently proposed strategies for improving affordability and reviewing past legal scholarship on content choice in health insurance, this Article introduces the "Affordable Choices" framework. This framework regulates choice in four ways. First, health plans should only exclude treatments whose merits are subject to reasonable disagreement among patients and physicians. Second, plans should appeal to purchasers' health-related values- values about …
May The State Punish What It May Not Prevent?,
2020
University of Michigan Law School
May The State Punish What It May Not Prevent?, Gabriel S. Mendlow
Articles
In Why Is It Wrong To Punish Thought? I defended an overlooked principle of criminalization that I called the Enforceability Constraint. The Enforceability Constraint holds that the state may punish transgressions of a given type only if the state in principle may forcibly disrupt such transgressions on the ground that they are criminal wrongs. As I argued in the essay, the reason why the state is forbidden from punishing thought is that the state is forbidden from forcibly disrupting a person’s mental states on the ground that they are criminally wrongful (as opposed to, say, on the ground that they …
June 27, 2020: Report On The Universe Is On Our Side,
2020
Duquesne University
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?,
2020
Duquesne University
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,
2020
Duquesne University
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,
2020
Duquesne University
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,
2020
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
The Philosophy Of Law For A Naturalist: An Introduction To Artificial Law Theory, Dan Priel
All Papers
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,
2020
Duquesne University
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.
