Jurisprudence
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“The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy”
This is a lightly revised version of a paper I gave last week at a very enjoyable conference with philosophers and lawyers on "Philosophy in the Public Sphere" at the Jindal Global University in Sonipta, India, near Delhi; the abstract: The idea of “public philosophy”—that is, philosophy as contributing to questions of moral and political urgency in…
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An oldie (but goodie!): Leiter v. Shapiro on Bloggingheads TV…
…talking about jurisprudence!
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Leiter & Skeel at the Veritas Forum at Northwestern…
…on "Why Tolerate Religion?"
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Why Tolerate Religion?
En Francais.
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Some papers posted on SSRN during the summer…
…in case they're of interest to anyone who took a vacation from blogs during the summer: "The Case Against Free Speech" "Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism" "Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion?
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“Why Tolerate Religion?” now in paperback…
…and with a new preface.
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Replying to critics of “Why Tolerate Religion?”
The journal Criminal Law & Philosophy kindly organized a symposium on my book, with essays by F. Boucher (Montreal) & C. Laborde (UCL), F. Schauer (Virginia), C. Brettschneider (Brown) and P. Jones (Newcaslte). A draft of my reply is here.
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“Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism”
This draft is for a conference in the fall at UVA Law School on "Jurisprudence and History" organized by Charles Barzun and Daniel Priel; I may not revise it before then, but I will definitely revise it afterwards and before publication.
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Intelligent write-up about Hobby Lobby issues…
…by journalist Dan Fisher at Forbes. I talked to him prior to the perplexing injunction on behalf of Wheaton, but he integrated that effectively. And Justice Sotomayor gets it exactly right in the bit he quotes: it really is preposterous on its face that anyone's free exercise of religion is burdened by a bit of…
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On Raz’s service conception of authority
Anyone working in legal philosophy ought to read this essay.
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“The Case Against Free Speech”
Very much work in progress, so comments welcome.
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“The limits of religious tolerance”
The scholarly debate has made it to the Chronicle of Higher Education,with lots of lawprofs featured, including me, Schwartzmann, Laycock, McConnell, Sager, Smith, and Koppelman.
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“The Recurring Myth about Nietzsche and Fascism”
Now at The Huffington Post.
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My legal philosophy blog…
…is coming back to life.
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On the right to be forgotten
A sensible commentary from my colleague Eric Posner. It's one of the many travesties that is modern First Amendment law that it would prohibit the recognition of such a right here.
People should understand what precipitated my remarks here at Leiter Reports. Also, a few replies and comments on the conversation:…