Stuart Ford (University of Illinois at Chicago - UIC School of Law) has posted To Insure Domestic Tranquility and Provide for the Common Defence: The Preamble's Concern with Internal and External ...

Joshua Galperin (Pace University - School of Law) has posted 4Cs at 4°C: Counting, Contestation, Communication, and Consideration for Collectively Constructing Concepts of Climate Change (In Adapting ...

Mimi Zou (University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice; University of Oxford) & Ellen Lefley (JUSTICE) have posted Generative Artificial Intelligence and Article 6 of the European ...

Fred O. Smith, Jr. (Emory University School of Law) has posted Younger and Older Abstention (123 Mich. L Rev. ___ (2025), Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: When victims of systemic rights ...

Jacob Bronsther (Michigan State University - College of Law) has posted Is Death Different? (110 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article attempts to unite ...

Randy Beck (University of Georgia School of Law) has posted Qui Tam Legislation and Article II: State Constitutional Precursors to the "Take Care" Clause on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Anglo-American ...

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Legal Rights and Moral Rights by Matthew Kramer. Here is a description: In a short span, this Element will delineate the general nature of legal and moral rights ...

There are two Downloads of the Week. The first is The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 by Robert Post. Here is the abstract: This paper is written for ...

One of the most fundamental distinctions in legal theory is that between "positive legal theory" and "normative legal theory." This post provides a very brief introduction to the distinction, aimed at ...

Ratna Kapur (School of Law) has posted On Violence, Revolution and the Self (Postcolonial Studies, volume 24, issue 2) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the integral relationship ...

James Macleod (Columbia University - Law School) has posted Standard Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For as long as legal scholars have been writing about the rules-versus-standards ...

Dan Friedman (Appellate Court of Maryland) has posted Miles to Go: A Response to Dr. Nicholas Cole’s Speech at the Third Annual Robert F. Williams Lecture on State Constitutional Law on SSRN. Here is ...