I highly recommend the legal theory blog that you can reach by punching in legal theory blog on google.
This is the blog of Lawrence Solum formerly a law professor at the U of San Diego and now at the University of Illinois. The best thing about this blog is that Solum posts many new articles, often still not yet published, on various legal topics. When you punch one of these articles you are usually taken to the Social Science Research Network and will be shown an abstract of the article. Then, you can register with SSRN, for free, and you can download any of their articles.
For example, go to legal theory blog and go to the most distant entries dated 2/18/2006 and you will find a link to Lawrence Solum's and Larry Alexander's (joint authors) forthcoming review of Larry Kramer's book: The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review. This is a very interesting and thorough review that is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. Another interesting link is under the entries for 2/25/2006 and is to a chapter of Sanford Levinson's forthcoming book explaining why our federal constitution is broken. Solum also does a legal theory lexicon that can be found in links on the left hand side of his blog where he defines and discusses commonly used terms in legal theory and legal philosophy.
Another interesting philosophical and legal theory blog (and political discussion or ranting depending on whether you believe that conservatives are always wrong) is leiter reports. Brian Leiter is a professor of law and philosophy at the U of Texas. He is a naturalist, I assume an atheist, and on the political left which is certainly a plus for Texas if one is interested in balance. He has a lot of the philosophy and legal philosophy blogs listed on his blog, and so too does Lawrence Solum on his blog
One final bit on news on the legal theory front. Robert S. Summers, former professor of law at the U of Oregon School of Law, and for many years a professor at the Cornell University Law School, has just had published his book on legal theory that he has been working on for at least ten years. The title of the book is Form and Function In A Legal System: A General Study and it is published by the Cambridge University Press and the price is, can you believe it, $80.
Summers was a student of Lon Fuller at Harvard and then was a student of H.L.A. Hart at Oxford.
I am reading Summer's book now and perhaps will report on it later. When Summers was spending time in Oxford he was quite critical of the work of his former professor Lon Fuller (who, by the way, was a professor of Contracts, etc. at the U of Oregon Law School in either the 30s or 40s). Now, he is much more critical of the legal positivism of H.L.A. Hart and of Hans Kelsen and more appreciative of Lon Fuller's formalism and moralism in explaining what law is. Formalism is the idea that there is something or some things about the law that are more reason-connected or structural or institutional that are necessary for a legitimate legal system and that rules posited by those with the authority to make them is not enough to either explain or legitimate a legal system. Formalism has been out of favor for some time and is often criticized as being too mechanical, deductive, rational and not flexible, practical, or adaptive. Summers defines forms as "purposive systematic arrangements" that play a role in our institutional arrangements - legislature, executive, judicial branches - as well as in different areas of law - contracts, administrative law, etc.- as well as in statutory law, common law, etc.- as well as in legal rules generally. Just as Lon Fuller emphasized the importance of the purposes of law in arriving at his conclusion that that there was an internal, procedural morality of law, so too does Summers emphasize the purposive or teleological aims of law as compared to the kind of rule-based legal positivism of H.L.A. Hart that provided Hart a basis for arguing that there is a pretty clear separation between law and morality. Anyway, for $80 you can find out for yourself, and like I said, I am still reading and trying to get a better grasp of what Summers is up to and what kind of a contribution his book makes to understanding this thing that we call "law."
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