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Entries Tagged as 'Jurisprudence'

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

First Amendment and Depictions of Cruelty to Animals

By Renee Gerber I know, I know.  Posting twice in two days — where am I finding the time given that I have papers and finals just like everyone else?  Ah, the power of procrastination. I haven’t yet had a chance to talk to anyone about this case that was granted cert last week.  In […]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Supreme Deconstruction

By Publicola Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia just concluded his most recent visit to the Harvard Law School campus, during which he delivered the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughan lecture. His talk, entitled Methodology of Originalism, was concluded with a classic Scalian half-growl, half-battle cry: “I do not have to prove that Originalism is perfect!” In […]

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Was Moses A Republican?

By Jay Schweikert, J.D. 2011 Whoever has seen The Ten Commandments would be hard pressed to forget the scene where Charlton Heston’s Moses spurns the seductions of Pharaoh’s court and famously retorts back: “Man shall be ruled by law – not by the will of other men.” Whose mind doesn’t proudly nod in support of […]