Legal Theory Blog


Legal Theory Blog says it contains "all the theory that fits." It posts links to articles in law reviews and elsewhere that discuss constitutional and legal theory.

Author: Author Lawrence B. Solum is a professor of law & philosophy at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Blawg Related Categories: Constitutional Law • Law Professors • Law Schools • Legal Theory • University of Illinois • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Legal Theory Blog


  • Blogging from Florence: Legal Philosophy Everywhere

    Tonight I had dinner with Dennis Patterson (the Chair of Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy). We ate at Baldovino, the wonderful trattoria owned by David Gardner, the…

  • Legal Theory Lexicon: Overlapping Consensus & Incompletely Theorized Agreements

    Introduction As law students become more sophisticated, they begin to notice that certain debates seem to repeat themselves over and over again. Disagreements about disparate subjects--in procedure, criminal law, torts, property, and constitutional law--frequently seem…

  • Legal Theory Bookworm

    The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends On Compromise and Rotten Compromises by Avishai Margalit. Here is a description: When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may?…

  • Download of the Week

    The Download of the Week is The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. Presidential Elections by Richard L. Hasen. Here is the abstract: Since the mid-1970s, the United States system for the financing…

  • Armstrong on Metaphor in Criminal Justice Policy

    Sarah Armstrong (Glasgow University) has posted Managing Meaning: The Use of Metaphor in Criminal Justice Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper takes an unorthodox approach to the study of policy, by analysing…

  • Glen on Posner & Sunstein on Collective Decision-Making & Foreign Law Application

    Patrick J. Glen (Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation) has posted On Learning from Nest-Seeking Honeybees and House-Hunting Ants: Collective Decision-Making and its Implications for a Condercetian Normative Theory of Foreign Law…

  • Otto on Gender in International Law

    Dianne Otto (University of Melbourne - Law School) has posted The Exile of Inclusion: Reflections on Gender Issues in International Law Over the Last Decade (Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009)…

  • Aviram on What Directors Maximize

    Amitai Aviram (University of Illinois College of Law) has posted What Do Corporate Directors Maximize? (Not Quite What Everybody Thinks) (Journal of Institution Economics, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The agency problem at…

  • West on Reproductive Justice

    Robin L. West (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted From Choice to Reproductive Justice: De-Constitutionalizing Abortion Rights (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, No. 7, pp. 1394-1431, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Essay…

  • Charles Taylor & Jurger Habermas on Religion in the Public Square

    Check out the Immanent Frame for a link to the audio.