Writings On Legal History
Justice
The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, First Edition. Edited by Michael Gibbons. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The Judge as Tragic Hero: An Arendtian Critique of Judging
HannahArendt.net, Articles/Research Notes v.4 (2008)
- Revised version, originally published in The Graduate Review (cont. as Critical Sense) v. 1, #1 (1994)
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Democratic Legitimacy and the Scientific Foundation of Modern Law
Theoretical Inquiries in Law, v. 8.1 (2006)
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The Encyclopedia of Truth
Law, Culture, and the Humanities, v. 2, #1 (2006). Review of Rainer Maria Kiesow's The Alphabet of Law
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The Accusers: Law, Justice, and the Image of Prosecutors in Hollywood
Griffith Faculty Law Review v. 13, #2 (2005)
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The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
Harvard University Press (2005); Law Press (Forthcoming, 2010). Chinese language edition; Fordham University Press (2010). Paperback.
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Error-Centricity, Habeas Corpus, and the Rule of Law as the Law of Rules
Louisiana Law Review v. 64 (2004)
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Law, Justice, and the Transformation of the Prosecutorial Ethic
Rechtssysteme im Vergleich: Die Staatsanwaltschaft, ed. Dieter Simon, et al. (2004)
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Some Prefatory Remarks on Positive Law (Gesetz)
Rechtshistorisches Journal, v. 19 (2000). Review of A. Sebok's Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence.
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Crossing the Warrior Path
Rechtshistorisches Journal, Volume 16, 1998. Review essay on Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
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Highlighting the Unknowable
Rechtshistorisches Journal, Volume 14, 1995. Review of Questions of Evidence, ed. J. Chandler, A. Davidson and H. Harootunian
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The Angry Jew: Hannah Arendt on Revenge and Reconciliation
Roger Berkowitz, Philosophical Topics, Fall 2011.
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From Justice to Justification: An Alternative Genealogy of Positive Law
University of California, Irvine, Law Review v. 1.3 (2011).
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Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Some Thoughts on Laurie Ackermann's Dignity Jurisprudence
Acta Juridica (2008)
- Reprinted in Dignity, Freedom and the Post-Apartheid Legal Order, ed. by Alfred Barnard (Jutta, 2009).
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Disorderly Differences: Recognition, Accommodation, and American Law
(With Austin Sarat). Law and Religion, ed. Gad Barzilai (Ashgate, 2006)
- Originally published in Yale J. of Law and Humanities (June 1994).
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the Code of Manu, and the Art of Legislation
New Nietzsche Studies v. 6 (2006)
- Expanded version, originally published in Cardozo Law Rev. v. 24 (2003).
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Harsh Justice
Law, Culture, and the Humanities, v. 1, #1 (2005). Review of James Whitman's Harsh Justice
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The Spring of Law: Some Thoughts Inspired by Nietzsche's Doctrine of the Sittlichkeit der Sitte
Rechtsgeschichte v. 6 (2005)
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'Not Guilty' - Millennial Speculations on Legal Defense from Queen Fredegond to Bill Clinton
Advocatus Defensorum, ed. Dieter Simon, et al. (2000)
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Truth and Error: Legal Error and the Uniquely American Doctrine of Habeas Corpus
Error Iudicis. Juristische Wahrheit und justizieller Irrtum, ed. A. Gouron, et al. (1998)
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The Judge as Captain
Europaische und Amerikanische Richterbilder, ed. A. Gouron, et al. (1996)
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