Progressive Legal Thought

Infallibility in Bentham’s Political and Legal Thought

The Impact of Legal Schools of Thought

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the e ects of legal schools of thought on appellate jurisprudence and criminal sentencing decisions. We construct measures of the in uence of a major school of conservative legal thought Law and Economics using the linguistic features of judicial opinions and attendance at a law-and-economics training program. We examine the impact of law-and-econo...

The Pure Theory of Law: Demythologizing Legal Thought

Neutrality in Liberal Legal Theory and Catholic Social Thought

1985. I presented an earlier version of this paper at the inaugural Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law hosted by Villanova University School of Law in 2003. I wish to thank everyone at Villanova who helped to plan and organize that first symposium, especially Mark Sargent, who as Dean of Villanova has demonstrated a palpable enthusiasm for fostering the Catholic intellectual tradi...

“the Living Oracles”: Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought