Levin Güver (University College London, Faculty of Law) has posted Untangling the Gordian Knot of Motive on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The centrality of intention for criminal law is virtually ...

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World―and the Future by by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: The social cost of carbon: The most important number ...

The Download of the Week is Chevron's Legacy by Mila Sohoni. Here is the abstract: In June 2024, the Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overruled Chevron. In her Response to Professor ...

Jeffrey A. Pojanowski (Notre Dame Law School) has posted Faces of Formalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Formalist approaches to legal interpretation, such as textualism and originalism, are ...

Robert Leider (George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School) has posted The Individual Right To Bear Arms For Common Defense on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The fundamental Second Amendment ...

Curtis Bradley (The University of Chicago Law School) has posted Sovereign Power Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The constitutional text seems to be missing a host of governmental ...

Some ideas seem to be endlessly debated. We might all agree that "justice" is a good thing, but some of us think that justice boils down to counting the utility of each individual equally, while ...

Kelvin Hiu Fai Kwok (The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law) has posted An Autonomy Theory of Consumer Protection Law (Antitrust Law Journal, Volume 86, Issue 2 (2024) pp. 411-472) on SSRN. Here ...

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North by Michelle Adams. Here is a description: The epic story of Detroit's ...

Andrea Scoseria Katz (Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law) has posted Separation-of-Powers Lochnerism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One hundred and twenty years ago, the Supreme Court ...

David S. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin Law School) has posted The Rhetoric of Deception: Madison's Federalist 37 and the Structure of the Ratification Debates on SSRN. Here is the abstract: James ...

Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting: Supply Chain Liability Explained Through Begum v Maran (Forthcoming in Cambridge ...