The Work of Our Guest Authors

Notes From the Archives

Although the New Digest only put up its first posts some six weeks ago, we’ve been publishing at a rapid clip every Tuesday and Thursday (with occasional notes, links or reading lists on other days), and have been especially pleased to feature a series of stellar posts from guest authors, from varying countries and legal traditions. In case any of our readers missed any of these, we thought we would pause today and feature a roundup of our guest posts, presented in chronological order of publication. (Note that some of these are listed as posted by the New Digest editors, but with an introductory note introducing the guest author).

1. In our first guest post, Stephane Sérafin wrote “Some Thoughts on the ‘Rule of Justice,’” an explanation of the common premises shared by legal progressivism and originalism.

2. Brian McCall wrote “The Differing Ground on Which Textualists and Classical Lawyers Stand” - as the title suggests, a presentation (in McCall’s categories) of the fundamentals of the classical legal tradition, its approach to legal interpretation, and its similarities and differences with the “textualism” of recent decades.

3. Jack Larkin wrote “An Isolated Man in a Disturbed Kingdom: An Essay on Hamlet, the Dane” — a reflection on themes of Christian kingship and classical constitutionalism.

4. In our first (and definitely not last) post on private law, Rajiv Shah wrote “Wisdom From Trajan’s Market,” an analytic taxonomy of the Roman law of quasi-contract and unjust enrichment, with a comparison to the modern taxonomy.

5. Kerry Sun wrote “Legal Form and Administrative Discretion,” an explanation, drawing on Canadian law, of how the classical tradition approaches review of discretionary decisions by administrative agencies.

6. Jose Ignacio Hernandez wrote “John Adams, the Ancient Spanish Constitution, and the Ius Commune,” a study of the influence of the Spanish fueros and the common good on early constitutional law and theory in the United States.

Stay tuned for some excellent forthcoming posts by guest authors — and we hope you enjoy these!