legal philosophy

Philosophers and States of Emergency

August 18, 2011 14:18

Tyler Curley, University of Southern California, has published Sounding the Alarm: Machiavelli, Locke and States of Emergency as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract.Leaders have long sought to redefine the legal and political order in states of emergency. In this paper, I...

Pretty Little Philosophers?

August 11, 2011 19:00

Timothy Lukes has published The Politics of Beauty: Locke, Shaftesbury, and Burke as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract.I argue that liberalism adulterates beauty, that Shaftesbury cannot resist the survival agenda of Locke, and that Burke's concept of the sublime is the...

Notre Ami Montequieu

August 11, 2011 18:53

Kirsten Nussbaumer, Saint Louis University, has published Republican Election Reform and the American Montesquieu. Here is the abstract.  At the time of the American founding, discourse about election regulation was shaped by a venerated -- but now long-forgotten -- “republican” (or “whig”)...

Grotian Rhetoric

August 10, 2011 21:54

John D. Haskell, University of Helsinki, University of London, and International University College of Turin, has published Hugo Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of International Law: Secularism, Liberalism, and the Politics of Restatement and Denial in volume 25 of the Emory International...

The Permanence of Legal Fictions

August 10, 2011 21:48

Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Legal Fictions Revisited. Here is the abstract. There was a time when the topic of legal fictions engaged many of the most important thinkers about law, including Jeremy Bentham, Morris Cohen, John Chipman Gray, Jerome...