ADDeRabbi posted some comments on Melvin Urofsky’s book Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. As a follow-up, here is a fascinating video of a lecture by Richard Polenberg, the author of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, titled “Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo: Judaism and the Crisis of the 1930s.” [...]
In the early 1990’s the Columbia University School of Law and the Shalom Hartman Institute published a very good journal called S’vara. Unfortunately, only four issues were ever published. These four issue are available in PDF format here. Below is a description of the journal.
S’Vara: A Journal of Philosophy, Law, and Judaism [...]
Legal Theory Bookworm:
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesnt Mean What It Meant Before by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: (the emphases are mine, MM)
The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking [...]
In what has become one of the most historic speeches of American history, “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King, Jr. said the following,
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are [...]
While I often think that people tend to err when they try to develop a theory of Jewish law based upon American law, there is often much about American legal theory which can inform the debate about a legal theory of Jewish law. There is a very interesting post by Lawrence B. Solum at his [...]
Shmarya over at Failed Messiah has been active lately with some of the reactions to the Noah Feldman article (see here about the “cropping out” that probably never was). In his latest post he quotes from an on-line opinion piece by R. Norman Lamm in the Forward. The following quote caught my eye,
Why not admire [...]
For those interested in questions of legal theory, at Balkin Brian Tamanaha, the author of Law as a Means to an End, has an interesting post on “The Search for Objectivity in Constitutional Law.”
You are currently browsing the archives for the Legal Theory category.