Topic
Jurisprudence
169 published works
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…
Islamic Law Blog
Revisiting al-ʿUtbī’s Mustakhraja: Ibn Rushd al-Jadd’s al-Bayān wa’l-taḥsīl
By Janina Safran In this essay, I illustrate the methods of juridical thinking and argumentation at the highest level among Mālikīs in al-Andalus in the early sixth/twelfth century. One aim…
Jotwell
Non-Justificatory Theories of Rights
In his rich and carefully argued book, Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation, Matthew Kramer seeks to articulate the essence of any entitlement (whether legal or moral) that can be…
Jotwell
Legal Theory, Law, and Politics: Making Theory Useful
In his famous 1957 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture at Harvard, the renowned British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart presented a vision of law as a system of rules validated…
Jotwell
Modern Analytical Jurisprudence
By Sean Coyle
The Nature of Law is an insightful and engaging book that challenges almost every touchstone of modern jurisprudence. Proceeding from the thesis that laws must be understood after all as…
Critical Legal Thinking
The Foundational Wrong of Law (Symposium)
By Editor S
Stephen Connelly There is an implicit assumption in jurisprudential reasoning that this reason, as form, is without inconsistency. Error is procedural: it results either from misrecognition of the ‘true’ law,…
In Custodia Legis
Join Us for the 2026 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence featuring Dr. Robert George
Join us for the 2026 Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence! This event, originally scheduled for the fall of 2025, has been rescheduled to April 9,…
Law & Humanities Blog
Chaevitch on Faust: Goethe's Guide to Legal Progress
By christinecorcoslawlit-blogspot-com
Anton Chaevitch, Harvard University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Creighton University School of Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, has published Faust: Goethe’s Guide to Legal Progress. Goethe’s Faust…
Jotwell
What is Real Law?
Brian Flanagan & Guilherme de Almeida, Lawful, But Not Really: The Dual Character of the Concept of Law, 43 L. & Phil. 507 (2024). Izabela Skoczen In the article, Lawful,…