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Stanley Fish, Intentionalism, and Law Teaching
Stanley Fish has an interesting column about teaching law with specific reference to learning about constitutional law and the religion clauses. He says much that I agree with and that picks up on at...
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Gross on Emergency Measures in Jewish Law
Oren Gross (U. of Minn. Law School) has posted Violating Divine Law: Emergency Measures in Jewish Law. The abstract follows. Judaism is a thoroughly legal culture. Structured around the concept of...
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A Thought on Evolutionary Textualism
One of the more interesting things about the directions in which Employment Division v. Smith has been interpreted by subsequent judges is the possible implication for textualism as a theory of...
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Levy, “Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages”
An absolutely wonderful looking book dealing with religion and political and legal authority round about the 15th century by Ian Christopher Levy (Providence College), Holy Scripture and the Quest for...
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Conference: Revelation and Interpretation: Legal Interpretation of Religious...
For those who are able to make it, the Journal of Law, Religion and the State (a project of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization) is putting on its third annual conference at NYU,...
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My Review of “Reading Law” by Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner
Commonweal has posted my review of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner. The piece is behind a paywall, I’m afraid. The review reflects on the...
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