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Jurisprudence
166 published works
ContractsProf Blog
Common Law Judging and the Great Tradition
The following is guest post by Richard Hyland (below), Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School In his contracts course, Friedrich Kessler often discussed cases in pairs. As I taught from…
Legal History Blog
Likhovski's "Legal Theory in the Colonies"
By Dan Ernst
New from Cambridge University Press and the ASLH’s book series, Studies in Legal History: Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule by Assaf Likhovski, Tel-Aviv…
Jotwell
General Jurisprudence’s Generality Problem
By Bill Watson
Felipe Jiménez, Truly General Jurisprudence, __ Legal Theory __ (Forthcoming), available at SSRN.General jurisprudence can sometimes be surprisingly parochial for a field that purports to study the nature of law,…
The Law Blog
Gandhi, Swaraj, and the Law
By The Law Blog
The Weekend Reading List series at The Law Blog is curated and brought together by Anshuman Sahoo, the founding editor of The Law Blog and Director at Law Matters Centre…
PrawfsBlog
JOTWELL: Erbsen on Francois and Hershkoff on Pennoyer as Con Law
The new Courts Law essay comes from Allan Erbsen (Minnesota) reviewing Aderson Bellegarde François & Helen Hershkoff, Pennoyer, Due Process, and the End of Reconstruction, __ N.Y.U. L. Rev. __…
Legal Bites
CLAT PG Mock Legal Practice Questions July 2026
Legal Bites presents the CLAT PG Mock Legal Practice Questions – July 2026, carefully designed to sharpen your preparation strategy and elevate your legal aptitude for the upcoming examination. In…
TortsProf Blog
JOTWELL Jurisprudence: Gold & Kuntz on Realism and Formalism
At JOTWELL, Andrew Halpin reviews Andrew Gold & Thilo Kuntz's Bridges Between Realism and Formalism.
Jotwell
Realism or Formalism or Both?
In their essay, Bridges Between Realism and Formalism, introducing a special symposium issue of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Andrew Gold and Thilo Kuntz provide a clear and helpful survey…
India Legal
CJI hails Justice Sanjay Karol as a Judge who saw what the Law would overlook
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday delivered a deeply personal farewell to Justice Sanjay Karol, describing his retiring colleague as a judge whose contribution to the law extended…
Islamic Law Blog
Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī, Ashʿarism, and the Politics of a Phrase: A Case Study in Historiographical Anachronism
By Ilyass Amharar Framing the Question This third essay in our series on the early encounters between Mālikism and Ashʿarism focuses on perhaps the most contested figure in the debate…