I am saddened to learn of the passing of Richard Fallon, the Story Professor Law, at Harvard Law School. I have known Dick for more than 40 years. I was in his Federal Courts class during his first ...

Introduction This week the Legal Theory Lexicon entry focuses on "ambiguity" and "vagueness"--two important concepts for the theory of interpretation. Some legal texts are ambiguous--they contain ...

M. Henry Ishitani (Yale Law School; Yale University - Department of History; University of Tulsa College of Law) has posted The Fourteenth Amendment is Not a Bill of Attainder: Uncovering the ...

Rebecca Stone (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted A Democratic Conception of Consumer Contracts (15 HBLR 93 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: I sketch and ...

Giancarlo Anello (University of Parma) has posted The Duty of Fast: Religious Abstinence and the Quest for Food Security on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Despite the universal declaration of the right ...

Introduction At some point in the introductory class in contract law, students are likely to encounter a very powerful idea--the distinction between "default rules" and "mandatory rules." The basic ...

Talia Roitberg Harmon (Niagara University), Michael L. Perlin (New York Law School), Maren Geiger (Niagara University, Department of Criminal Justice), Lea Roitberg (Niagara University), & Stacy ...

James Toomey (University of Iowa - College of Law) has posted Personhood as Participation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: “Legal personhood” is thought to be a concept of foundational and systemic ...

Jack Kieffaber (Harvard University - Harvard Law School), Kimo Gandall (Harvard University, Harvard Law School), Steven M. Foster, Jr. (U.S. Army), & Kenny McLaren (Harvard University - Harvard Law ...

Rafał Mańko (Central European University, Democracy Institute) has posted Legal Survivals and Juristic Epistemic Authority on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The concept of "legal survivals" has been ...

Introduction This week the Legal Theory Lexicon entry focuses on "ambiguity" and "vagueness"--two important concepts for the theory of interpretation. Some legal texts are ambiguous--they contain ...

Christian Legal Theory William Stuntz (Harvard) has a book review entitled Christian Legal Theory forthcoming from the Harvard Law Review and available now on SSRN (click the article title for the ...