Sooner or later, most law students encounter the idea that "transparency" (as opposed to "opaqueness") is (all else being equal) a desirable characteristic in markets, procedures, and governance ...

Philip N. Pettit (Princeton University; Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)) has posted Dispersing Power within the State on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It ...

Rafał Mańko (Central European University, Democracy Institute) has posted Towards an Ideological History of Private Law or What Legal History Can Gain from Critical Legal Theory on SSRN. Here is the ...

The Download of the Week is The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 by Robert Post. Here is the abstract: This paper is written for a forthcoming ...

Robert Post (Yale University - Law School) has posted The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper is written for a ...

Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University School of Law) has posted Law's Duality on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Frédéric Mégret's engaging contribution, A Look Back at The Women's Hague Peace Conference: ...

Rafał Mańko (Central European University, Democracy Institute) has posted Legal Transplants, Legal Survivals and Legal Revivals: Towards a Reconceptualisation of the Circulation of Legal Forms in Time ...

Belisa Pang (Yale University - Law School), Dalié Jiménez (University of California, Irvine School of Law; Harvard Law School - Center on the Legal Profession), & Matthew A. Bruckner (Howard ...

George Letsas (University College London - Faculty of Laws) has posted Structural Injustice and The Law: A Philosophical Framework on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What is the role of law in injustices ...

Gary B. Born has posted International Law in American Courts on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Book addresses the status of international law in American courts and the power of those courts ...

Leah Trueblood (Worcester College) has posted Public Functions of Political Parties in the United Kingdom on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Political parties are both private and public bodies. Some ...

Amr Ibn Munir (International Islamic University, Islamabad) has posted The Fundamental Precepts of Sociological Jurisprudence: An Introduction (Journal of Law & Social Studies (JLSS) Volume 6, Issue 4 ...