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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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. …

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

Faculty Publications

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

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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

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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.

July 24, 2018: But Why Do Immigrants Vote Democratic?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “But Why Do Immigrants Vote Democratic?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 22, 2018: Israel Says It Cannot Be Both Jewish And Democratic, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Israel Says It Cannot Be Both Jewish and Democratic“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 17, 2018: He’S Not A Russian Agent, Just Unfit To Be President, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “He’s Not a Russian Agent, Just Unfit to be President“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 14, 2018: Disgraceful Democratic Party Defense Of Peter Strzok, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Disgraceful Democratic Party Defense of Peter Strzok“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 10, 2018: Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 4, 2018: In Christ There Is Neither Democrat Nor Republican, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “In Christ There Is Neither Democrat nor Republican“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 1, 2018: Can We Agree That Not Everything Unions Do Is Speech, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Can We Agree that not Everything Unions Do is Speech“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

The Texas Standards For Appellate Conduct: An Annotated Guide And Commentary, Gina M. Benavides, Joshua J. Caldwell

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

The legal profession is bound by ethical rules that govern and guide our conduct and actions as lawyers. One of the under-appreciated, but profoundly important set of guidelines is the Texas Standards for Appellate Conduct. These Standards serve as an excellent practice guide for appellate practitioners and appellate courts and as a model code of conduct for the Bar as a whole.

The goal of this Article is to dissect the Texas Standards for Appellate Conduct and provide useful commentaries for the readers to better appreciate and understand each element of the Standards. The commentaries provide direct case examples and …