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[Review of “Jerks, zombie robots, and other philosophical misadventures” (MIT Press, 2019) by Eric Schwitzgebel.] Professor Schwitzgebel’s beautiful new book (pictured below and available here via the MIT Press) consists of 58 short philosophical reflections. Like a modern-day Montaigne, Schwitzgebel … Continue reading →

That is the title of my latest paper, which was published in Volume 9 of the Journal of Law, available here (via the Journal of Legal Metrics) or here (via SSRN). In summary, my paper contributes to the literature on … Continue reading →

Alas, my Christmas break ends early this year (I resume my teaching duties on Monday, Jan. 6). In the meantime, here is a subset of what I have been (or will be) reading over the holiday season (in addition to … Continue reading →

In this post, I will conclude my extended review of Altwicker & Diggelmann’s helpful taxonomy of legal progress. The fourth and final method they identify is what they call “paradigm shift-talk,” which in turn is based on the influential work … Continue reading →

Let’s proceed with our extended review of Altwicker & Diggelmann’s taxonomy of legal progress–i.e. their systematic classification of the various ways in which legal scholars make up stories about legal progress, to be more precise. In addition to the use … Continue reading →

Merry Chrismukkah! As I mentioned in a previous post, Tilmann Altwicker (Basel) and Oliver Diggelmann (Zurich) have identified four ways in which the ideal of progress is “socially-constructed” in the field of international law, beginning with the crude method of … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, so I am interrupting my series of blog posts on the “social construction of legal progress” to share this creative end-of-year “movie trailer mashup” (hat tip: Kottke). I will resume my review of progress in law on Monday … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I shared a wide variety of law review articles and scholarly papers on the theme of legal progress. The larger question I care about, however, is this: is it possible to objectively measure progress in any … Continue reading →