There are many wonders of the modern world. Which matters most to us depends on our individual preferences. To me, the easy access to the written word is a miracle that was not available even a generation ago. Sure there were books in the past but access was costly in terms of time and money. … Continue reading "Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World"
The Swedish economist Johan Norberg is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a passionate advocate of capitalism. In his 2023 book The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World he argues for free markets and freedom. Among his 20 books are In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten … Continue reading "Johan Norberg on China"
Twenty-three years ago on September 11th, a great big catastrophe hit the world. The US suffered a direct hit that was bad enough in terms of death and destruction. But the reaction by the US military-industrial complex was orders of magnitude more devastating to the world. Trillions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition was … Continue reading "9/11: 23 Years Ago"
I am generally not impressed by the many hugely popular media celebrities on YouTube and on social media. Many of them are, IMNSHO, overexposed midwits and in some cases they are positively harmful because their millions of followers don’t have the cognitive capacity to distinguish chalk from cheese. I could be accused of being elitist … Continue reading "Civil War Inevitable: Musk"
It’s Ganesh Chaturthi season again. Therefore it is time for the annual post. Of the 330 million devas of the Hindu dharma, Ganesha is my favorite for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that my interests closely mirror his. He likes food; he likes reading and writing; he loves music; likes traveling; he … Continue reading "Ganesh Chaturthi"
: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 23, 2024 Tobia on New Methods on Statutory Interpretation kevin_tobia GeorgetownLaw Kevin Tobia , Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Department of Philosophy , has published New Methods in Statutory Interpretation : Surveys , Corpus Linguistics , ChatGPT Here is the abstract . We live in an age of statutes , and textualism is the dominant method of interpreting them . This much is now familiar , encapsulated by Justice Kagan's 2015 announcement that we are all textualists now . But this story has a recent twist : Textualism's methods are evolving . This short essay introduces some recent developments in textualist methods . Textualists are looking to: : , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 11, 2024 Thumma and Miller on The Slump : Infamous United States Supreme Court Decisions From the Gilded Age , Explanations About What Happened , and Why It Matters Now Samuel Thumma , Arizona Court of Appeals , and Michael O . Miller , independent scholar , are publishing The Slump : Infamous United States Supreme Court Decisions From the Gilded Age , Explanations About What Happened , and Why It Matters Now in the Journal of Gender , Race , and Justice . Here is the abstract . In its history , the United States Supreme Court has issued many decisions forgotten to time . A few are touted as brilliant and foundational , and others are widely criticized . An outsized: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 26, 2024 Siliquini-Cinelli on What Legal Reasoning Is CardiffLaw Luca Siliquini-Cinelli , Cardiff University , School of Law and Politics , is publishing What is Legal Reasoning in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2024 Pursuant to the aims and scope of the Special Issue it is part of , this invited contribution seeks to shed new light on the nature and working logic of legal reasoning . It does so by engaging with two of the most authoritative views on the subject which have recently been put forward in the Common law world—namely , Lord Hoffmann’s , and Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin’s . A key-concern of the Anglophone debate on legal reasoning is: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 11, 2024 Rappaport on The American Creed and the Constitutional Order uclaw_sf Aaron J . Rappaport , UC Law , San Francisco , has published The American Creed and the Constitutional Order Here is the abstract . Liberal democracy faces an existential threat in the United State today . Political polarization and the rise of far-right extremism both raise questions about the institutional structure’s continuing viability . For the first time in recent memory , Americans are questioning whether the nation might ultimately become undemocratic , illiberal , or both . This essay explores a neglected cause of this political crisis and , more importantly , offers a possible long-termMichael Grynberg, DePaul University College of Law, has published Trademarks as Comics. Here is the abstract.
What can trademark law learn from comic art? This essay uses the comic book form to explore the question.: . : , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 3, 2024 Giuliani on F . Calasso's Idea of the Ius Commune : Legal Historians and the Romanist Tradition , 1930-60 Adolfo Giuliani , InfoLaw Research Project Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory , is publishing F . Calasso's idea of the ius commune : Legal historians and the Romanist tradition , 1930-60 in Journal Clio Themis June 2024 Here is the abstract . On 16th January 1933 the young Francesco Calasso 1904-1965 delivered a prolusion on a subject that was to take the new generation of legal historians by storm : The concept of the ius commune . His prolusion not only changed the image of the legal past but also gave a new impetus to legal history: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 13, 2024 Ferguson on The Ciceronian Origins of American Law and Constitutionalism HarvardJLPP Jack Ferguson , U . S . Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , is publishing The Ciceronian Origins of American Law and Constitutionalism in volume 48 of the Harvard Journal of Law Public Policy . Here is the abstract . In his treatise on American constitutionalism , John Adams wrote that as all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero , his authority should have great weight . 8221 This Article considers the Founding generation’s intellectual debt to Marcus Tullius Cicero , the classical Roman statesman-philosopher , and what: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 4, 2024 Crowe on Natural Law With and Without God drjoncrowe unisqaus AusJLR Jonathan Crowe , University of Southern Queensland , School of Law and Justice , has published Natural Law with and without God at 4 Australian Journal of Law and Religion 17 2024 Here is the abstract . There is a common perception of natural law theory as characteristically if not necessarily theistic . This is sometimes presented as a drawback by secular critics of natural law thinking . Natural law authors themselves differ on the role of theism within their theories . Some have argued that natural law theory presupposes theism , while others have sought to give their views a secular basis . This: : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture September 19, 2024 Ballakrishen on Kanoon's Sarange : Goodrich and the Non-Minor Jurisprudences of Law and Love ssballakrishnen UCILaw Law_Cult_Huma Swethaa Ballakrishnen , University of California , Irvine , School of Law Harvard University , Center on the Legala Profession , is publishing Kanoon’s Sarange : Goodrich and the Non-Minor Jurisprudences of Law and Love in Law , Culture and the Humanities 2024 Here is the abstract . This article uses three main global visual sites—the popular Korean drama Hometown Cha Cha Cha 2021 the Hindi-English movie , The Lunchbox 2013 and the British-American television series Ted Lasso 2020–2023 to engage with two main strains of Peter Goodrich's