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

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.
Blogging from Florence: A Room With A Vivew
I looking out the window the Seventh Floor of Dennis Patterson's apartment in the center of Florence. I'm hear to give a lecture at the European University Institute--where Patterson holds the Chair in Legal Theory…
Shanske on Enqquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture
Darien Shanske (University of California, San Francisco - Hastings College of the Law) has posted Engquist and the Erosion of the Equal Protection Clause: An Attempt to Stop the Creep of Irrational Dicta (Hastings Law…
Furnish on Civil Jurisdiction & Tribal Courts
Dale Beck Furnish (Arizona State University - College of Law) has posted Sorting Out Civil Jurisdiction in Indian Country after Plains Commerce Bank: State Courts and the Judicial Sovereignty of the Navajo Nation (American Indian…
Shany on Terror, Human Rights, & Humanitarian Law
Yuval Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology) has posted Human Rights and Humanitarian Law As Competing Legal Paradigms for Fighting Terror (COLLECTED COURSES OF THE ACADEMY OF EUROPEAN…