Celeste Arrington’s From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan is an important contribution to the study of law and politics in East Asia and to sociolegal scholarship more generally. The book asks a deceptively simple
William Blackstone is, of course, an omnipresent name for law students and law professors alike. At least once a week during the semester, I teach a Supreme Court opinion that cites the eighteenth-century English jurist’s writings for some proposition or
General jurisprudence can sometimes be surprisingly parochial for a field that purports to study the nature of law, wherever and whenever law exists. In Truly General
The Copyright Act is turning fifty this year. One of the many things that has not changed in U.S. copyright law is a ongoing struggle to map the territory of the elusive fair use defense. Even before its 1976 codification,
David Dyzenhaus’s The War Against Law: What’s Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism (hereinafter, The War Against Law) is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the rule of law in liberal democracies. Dyzenhaus is one of the world’s
Even as the horrors of the Trump Administration mount to benumbing proportions, I’d wager we can still recall the gut punch
Professor Deborah DeMott’s article When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency is a
Alice Ristroph is one of our foremost philosophers of police violence. She has provided important clarity about the physical nature of “force” and its effect on human bodies, and painstakingly traced the ways in which Supreme Court doctrine has concealed
Over the last five years, repeated waves of attacks on transgender children have
Many books are timely. Quite a few books put forth an interesting and well-supported argument. Few books manage to do both while introducing a thesis that can be construed narrowly towards a specific class- in this case women- while also
