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'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.

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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

Hallowed Secularism

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 …

Sesat Pikir Aplikasi Hermeneutika Hukum Menurut Hans-Georg Gadamer, Fernando Morganda Manullang

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Some legal writing written by legal scholars interpret legal text methodologically in their analysis, while seeking its philosophical foundation, namely Hans-Georg Gadamer’s legal hermeneutics. Such hermeneutics is part of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics which can be applied to law, aside from theology and philology. Such hermeneutics employs in general and on ontological level thereof. Such understanding is unknown in jurisprudence, because the interpretation in jurisprudence is more methodological, an idea that Gadamer clearly opposes. Such scholarly legal perspective potentially creates some fallacies towards Gadamer's idea on legal hermeneutics

What Lawyers Can And Should Do About Mendacity In Politics, Heidi Li Feldman

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Donald Trump has brought new attention to the mendacity of politicians. Both major national newspapers have reported tallies of Trump's false and misleading claims. On November 14, 2017, The Washington Post reported that in the 298 days that President Trump has been president, he had made 1,628 false or misleading claims, telling them at a rate of nine per day in the thirty-five days prior to November 14. Trump, the Post reported, has made fifty false or misleading claims “that he as repeated three or more times.” The Post also catalogued scores of “flip-flops” from Trump. In general, from 2016 …

Kennedy’S Retirement: Despair Not, Go Out And Organize, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

June 26, 2018: Liberal Inconsistency And Arrogance, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

June 23, 2018: Best Paul Krugman Column Ever, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Best Paul Krugman Column Ever“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 18, 2018: We Don’T Live In A Post-Credal Age—Only Power Lives In A Post-Credal Age, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “We Don’t Live in a Post-Credal Age—Only Power Lives in a Post-Credal Age“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 15, 2018: What Is Wrong?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is Wrong?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 12, 2018: My Response To Ross Douthat Column On Free Speech Saving Us, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “My Response to Ross Douthat Column on Free Speech Saving Us“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.