Lewis Ross (London School of Economics) has posted Reintegrative Retributivism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Pessimistic empirical evidence about the reformatory and deterrent effects of punitive ...

Ming-Sung Kuo (University of Warwick - School of Law) has posted Four Matters of Interpretation: The Constitutional Phenomenon in Comparative Studies (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Forthcoming)) on ...

Gabriel "Jack" Chin (University of California, Davis - School of Law) & Paul Finkelman (Gratz College; Albany Law School) have posted Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins ...

Sooner or later, most law students encounter the idea that "transparency" (as opposed to "opaqueness") is (all else being equal) a desirable characteristic in markets, procedures, and governance ...

Robert Post (Yale University - Law School) has posted The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper is written for a ...

Benjamin Keener (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) has posted Bonham's Case and Judicial Duty on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Bonham’s Case is perhaps one of the most famous cases in the ...

Jane Calderwood Norton (University of Auckland - Faculty of Law) has posted Weighing Benefits and Detriments in the Law of Charity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter was published in Charity ...

The Download of the Week 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 a forthcoming ...

Philip N. Pettit (Princeton University; Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)) has posted Dispersing Power within the State on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It ...

Christopher Hampson (University of Florida Levin College of Law) has posted The Spirit of Jubilee on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Jubilee texts of the Hebrew Bible call for debts to be forgiven and ...

Rafał Mańko (Central European University, Democracy Institute) has posted Towards an Ideological History of Private Law or What Legal History Can Gain from Critical Legal Theory on SSRN. Here is the ...

Philip N. Pettit (Princeton University; Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)) has posted Two Concepts of Free Speech on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Free ...