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I am presenting two works-in-progress at the 14th Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium, which is taking place at the Loyola Law School in Chicago this weekend. I will therefore resume my “prequel” to Gödel’s loophole in the next day or two. … Continue reading →

Here is a revised excerpt from my new work “Gödel’s Interbellum”; the footnotes are below the fold: In many ways, Gödel’s fate was inextricably intertwined with Austria’s during the interwar period. He was born in 1906 in the small town … Continue reading →

Below is the next installment of my paper “Gödel’s Interbellum” (revised draft, 2023); footnotes below the fold: I will begin my survey with the self-coup of January 6, 1929, when King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia unilaterally abrogated his country’s constitution and … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my series of blog posts on the demise of Central European democracies during the interwar period to make the following statement: last night’s censure of Representative Rashida Tlaib is unamerican. Simply put, although I stand with Israel, … Continue reading →

Interwar Europe through the Eyes of Kurt Gödel Although the story of Kurt Gödel’s discovery in late 1947 of a logical contradiction in the United States Constitution has been retold many times, the content of this discovery is often discounted … Continue reading →

Below is the introduction to my paper “Gödel’s Interbellum: Interwar Europe through the Eyes of Kurt Gödel” (footnotes omitted; emphasis added): “One of the great unsolved mysteries of constitutional law is ‘Gödel’s loophole‘. In brief, the great logician Kurt Gödel … Continue reading →

My most downloaded work of all time, Gödel’s Loophole, describes the logician Kurt Gödel’s discovery of a logical contradiction in the United States Constitution, a discovery he reportedly made while he was studying for his U.S. citizenship exam in 1947. … Continue reading →

My colleague Dan Markel was murdered in his own home in Tallahassee, Florida on 18 July 2014. Yesterday, a jury found Markel’s brother-in-law, Charlie Adelson, guilty of conspiring to murder Markel. Wendi Adelson, you’re next! One of the things we … Continue reading →