This is Kelsen, or at least a 1945 translation (Wedberg) of General Theory of Law and State, p. 19. Finnis is quoting as part of a critique. Kelsen went on to say there are indeed commonalities.
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Check out the new Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social and Lucia Rubinelli @luxirubsi.bsky.social
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Jealous
yep that’s the one. less dated than those in the mid “that isn’t“ list too
Manuscript now submitted!
📌 this sounds v interesting
Call for papers for the 2026 Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference is now open! For more details please see our website: www.aslp.org.au/conference
Working back from Tierney and Oakley; give ground on genealogy of subjective rights, hold line on voluntarism and nominalism. Motivated reasoning! See how it goes
Good question! I'm up to the "fun" Ockham part now though
Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not.
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
Dworkin less so, which is reassuring!
Raz Between Authority and Interpretation looks like it has done a few miles
Don’t know of a major or standard treatment. The Kochin article in fn 5 of this review of Owen Bradley’s book follows the Straussian hermeneutic for sure, was published in Polis
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Thanks, will check those out
"New German Cinema" stuff like Fassbinder, early Herzog and Wenders. A lot of it is on you tube with (sometimes dodgy) subtitles. Watching Fassbinder's Welt am Draht too many times helped me a lot, particularly for comprehension
These books are great, I found you can mix up attentive listening and having it on in the background sometimes too. I also swear by 1970s German movies. Somehow the dialogue is easier to follow around A2 level and if you get something you like multiple viewings works wonders
Hard agree. Languages have their own rhythms and modulations etc. so even if you don’t understand the content something significant is lost. So it’s not even that irrational IMO
Sandra Leonie Field’s work is worth a look and prob suited to the level. Recent articles build on Field’s analyses of power in Hobbes and Spinoza (see Potentia, OUP, 2020)
Suzhou Gate to East from below
A new volume of Comparative Constitutional Studies is out. Honouring @cherylas1.bsky.social, with contributions on the themes that dominated her trailblazing career: global constitutionalism, federalism, constitution making and rule of law. 🌟Open access for the next three weeks. 🌟
My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine.
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Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
For all the Blumenberg fans out there
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Parmagianino (1523)
Astutely identifying some underlying Calvinism there
Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!
