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- Isaiah Berlin and Enlightenment Constitutionalism
- Lawyers and Game of Thrones
- Nelson Mandela: The Lawyer's Lawyer
Isaiah Berlin and Enlightenment Constitutionalism Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:47 AM PDT Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law; University of Oxford, has published Isaiah Berlin's Neglect of Enlightenment Constitutionalism. Here is the abstract. One of the most important achievements of the Enlightenment is what I shall call Enlightenment constitutionalism. It transformed our political thinking out of all recognition; it left, as its legacy, not just the repudiation of monarchy and nobility in France in the 1790s but the unprecedented achievement of the framing, ratification, and establishment of the Constitution of the United States. It comprised the work of Diderot, Kant, Locke, Madison, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Sieyes, and Voltaire. It established the idea of a constitution as an intricate mechanism designed to house the untidiness and pluralism of human politics.Download the paper from SSRN at the link. |
Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:54 AM PDT Over at Concurring Opinions, Dave Hoffman is posting the transcripts of some very interesting interviews he has conducted with Game of Thrones author G. R. R. Martin. Game of Thrones is now a huge hit on HBO. See here, here, and here. In the second interview, Mr. Martin discusses the role of lawyers Game of Thrones, which takes the York/Lancaster Wars of the Roses for some of its inspiration. On the Game of Thrones series, see: Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords (Henry Jacoby, ed., Wiley, 2012) (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series). Available in print and ebook formats. |
Nelson Mandela: The Lawyer's Lawyer Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:28 AM PDT Justin Hansford, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published Nelson Mandela: The Lawyer as Agent for Social Change as a Saint Louis University Legal Studies Research Paper. Here is the abstract. On December 5, 2013, a preeminently honorable man, perhaps the most admired in the world, passed away. That man was Nelson Mandela, and he was a lawyer. Download the paper from SSRN at the link. |
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