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Merry Christmas

Immigration as Adoption

Natural Law Meets Labor Law

Christianity and the Making of Irish Law

The Unitary Executive: A Collection of Recent Writings

Truth or Consequences

Intellectual Property Textualism, Where Art Thou?

“Some Ordering and Moderating Power”

Unserious Positivists

A Story About Law from Herodotus

An Interview With Le Grand Continent

The Further Adventures of Justice Barrett

The Office of Parliamentary Counsel as Guardians of Classical Principles

A New Paper on Plural Tyranny

The Classical Legal Tradition and the Conservative Legal Movement

The Hispanic world and the Christian Economic Order

Lawful Proscription, Part II: Designation of Antifa as a Foreign Terror Organization

What is Religion?

Lawful Proscription: Designation of Antifa as a Domestic Terror Organization

Justice Barrett’s Dogma

The Classical Tradition as Our Tradition

Leo XIV, Classical Jurist

Normative Constitutional Theory in a Multipolar World

Fidelity and Law

Love Your Enemies

Providence Takes A Longer View

Three Mistakes About Power and Justice

Reflections from a Vigil for Charlie Kirk

A Very Succinct Account of the General Principles of Law

Originalism & The Common Good Debate

The Attorney General, who Prosecutes on Behalf of Justice

Fetishitic Textualism 2: An Intellectual Feast

The Rule of Law (Without Liberalism)

[Repost for Feast of St. Stephen] An English Translation of the Admonitions of St. Stephen, Founder and First King of Hungary

Adjournment

Congress.AI: Part Deux

The Prince and his Lawyers

The Doctor of Anti-Liberalism

The Mutiny of the Judges

Law and Order

AI and The Ordinance of Reason

The Master Meta-List of Classical Legal Sources And Methods

Congress.AI

Bolt and the Bastardized Saint

Give Me That Old-Time Judge Thomas

Disagreeing over Human Rights Law

Classical Tradition Seminar Syllabus

Law-Skepticism On The New Right

The Prince and the Constitutional Order

The Nature and Exercise of the Pardon Power: Three Perspectives

Fetishistic Textualism

Monstrous Government (Reprise)

Some Notes on Justice and Fallen Man in the Classical Natural Law Tradition

The Next Supreme Court Appointment?

[Paywall removed] The Groupchat of the Solicitors General

The Groupchat of the Solicitors General

Yes, There Will Be No Loper Bright “Revolution”

Sir Winston Churchill, Conservative Lawyers, and the Origins of the European Convention on Human Rights

Black Monday: 90 Years Later

What Is “The Unitary Executive”?

Is There a Remedy (in Federal Court) for Every Right?

New Research Project

Dante's Lawyers from Hell

The Rule of Law, The Rule of Courts, and the Rule of the State

Star Wars and the Wages of Weak Government

The Partnership of Natural Law With the “History and Tradition” Framework

[From the Archives] The Influence of the Roman Pontiff on Constitutional Theory

The Case of the Georgean Applicant

Requiescat in Pace

Christus resurrexit

Classical Natural Law, Common Good Constitutionalism, and the Process of Constitutional Change

THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ IN LEGAL CONSTITUTIONS

The Common Good in the Constitution of Chile

Nondelegation, Private Delegation, and Corporatism

Beyond the Feminist Debate: Time to Reclaim a Lost Vision on Women’s Dignity?

An Open Letter To My Students

The Dying Gasp of Corpus Linguistics

History and Tradition in Classical English Constitutionalism

“L’Ordre Public et les Bonnes Moeurs”

The Executive TRO: A Modest Proposal

The 1937 Irish Constitution and Classical Natural Law

Jurisprudence as a Subaltern Science

The Fiat of the Prince

The New Digest and Ius & Iustitium Merger

The State as Daughter, Bride and Mother of the Church

A Note on Gov. DeSantis and State Pedagogy

“A Traditional Respect For the Functions of The Other Branches”

Ulpian and Natural Law

Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Inter-American Court, and Natural Law

Two Versions of “History and Tradition”

The Fearful and Fainthearted

Confusion About the Separation Of Powers

Tilting at Windmills

The Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice Option: A Classical Natural Law Method for Interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights

An English Translation of the Admonitions of St. Stephen, Founder and First King of Hungary

Reversing the Fragmentation of Executive Power in the United Kingdom

Skepticism About the Separation of Powers

The “Trial” and Martyrdom of Louis XVI

De Valera on the Source and Justification for Political Authority

THE “LEX NATURALIS” BY ANOTHER MEANS?

Judges Speak On Classical Legal Theory

Common Good Presidential Administration