Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest University School of Law) has posted How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education on SSRN. Here is the
abstract: Discussing federal statutes, Justice Scalia tells us that “[t]he stark reality is that the only thing that one can say for sure was agreed to by both [...]
Dan T. Coenen (University of Georgia Law School) has posted Quiet-Revolution Rulings in Constitutional Law (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 99, 2019) on SSRN. Here is
the abstract: The Supreme Court ordinarily supports its establishment of major constitutional principles with detailed justifications in its opinions. [...]
Howard Henderson (Texas Southern University - Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs) & Frank Wilson have posted Judicial Interpretation of Reasonableness in
Use of Force Cases: An Exploratory Analysis on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Throughout the history of police-community encounters, the use of force has always been [...]
Introduction Most law students begin realize that consent is a powerful legal and moral concept early in the first year of law school. A physical blow to the person is a battery—unless
the blow was landed in a boxing match, in which case consent turns the battery into something that is legally permissible and not actionable, even if it results in [...]
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester. Here is a description:
In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John [...]
The Download of the Week is Law's Halo and the Moral Machine by Bert I. Huang. Here is the abstract: How will we assess the morality of decisions made by artificial intelligence—and
will our judgments be swayed by what the law says? Focusing on a moral dilemma in which a driverless car chooses to sacrifice its passenger to save more people, this [...]
Sam Gilman (Harvard University, Law School) has posted Proliferating Predation: Reverse Redlining, the Digital Proliferation of Inferior Social Welfare Products, and How to
Stop it on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The political economy is beginning to recognize the scope of surveillance capitalism and the influence that the major platforms [...]
Chen Yu (McGill University Faculty of Law) has posted Currency Manipulation and WTO Laws: Should the Anti-Dumping Mechanism Be Entirely Dumped? (Journal of World Investment
& Trade (2019) 20:6, 891-915) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Currency devaluation resembles subsidy and dumping in terms of its impact on global trade – it grants [...]
Sean J. Griffith (Fordham University School of Law; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)) has posted Agency, Authority, and Compliance (Cambridge Handbook on Compliance,
Sokol & van Rooij, eds., Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Compliance can and often does serve as a conduit through which regulators and enforcement authorities [...]
Kathryn Judge (Columbia Law School) has posted The New Mechanisms of Market Inefficiency (45 Journal of Corporation Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Mechanisms
of market inefficiency are some of the most important and least understood institutions in financial markets today. [...]
