Lerer on an Evolutionary Theory of Legal Language, buff.ly/xUFGhyE - Ignacio Adrian Lerer has posted Law as Language: From Scandinavian Realism to Evolutionary Jurisprudence on SSRN.

Giacomini & Gastaldo on Rights of Nature, buff.ly/pX2qhzl - Giada Giacomini (University of Hull - School of Law) & Francesca Ceresa Gastaldo (University of Genoa) have posted Critical Approaches to Rights of Nature on SSRN.

Balganesh & Zhang on Legal Internalism, buff.ly/i7vLrZR - Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia University - Law School) & Taisu Zhang (Yale University - Law School) have posted Legal Internalism as a Mode of Reasoning (American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 71, forthcoming) on SSRN.

Alschuler on Trump, January 6, and Presidential Immunity, buff.ly/OipKQz0 - Albert Alschuler (University of Chicago Law ) has posted The Justice Department's Reluctance to Prosecute, the Special Counsel's Regrettable Choices, and the Supreme Court's Unfortunate Immunity Decision: A History on SSRN.

Jotwell: The Future of Notice and Takedown? - Intellectual Property buff.ly/sr5Dox3

Monopoli on Women's Rights and Popular Constitutionalism, buff.ly/uNwud41 - Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN.

Kadiri on Judicial Precedent, buff.ly/FnTKlw2 - Abdulmaleek Kadiri (Obafemi Awolowo University) has posted Judicial Precedent and the Killy-loo Bird Analogy: Striking a Balance between Tradition and Progress on SSRN.

Tushnet on Judicial Time, buff.ly/g5Xf6PK - Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law School) has posted Judicial Time: A Research Note on SSRN.

Spaic & Rabanos on Schauer on Free Speech, buff.ly/PzZCAIq - Bojan Spaic (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Law) & Julieta A. Rabanos (University of Girona) have posted Schauer on Free Speech: A Lifelong Enquiry on SSRN.

Legal Theory Lexicon: Path Dependency, buff.ly/QResd7e - This Lexicon entry explores the idea of path dependency.

What a nice honor! I do hope you’ll download (and read) my new article, “The Amended Statute”!

Legal Theory Bookworm: "The Heritage Guide to the Constitution," edited by Blackman & Malcolm, buff.ly/zDohM13 - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: Fully Revised Third Edition, edited by by Josh Blackman & John Malcolm.

Download of the Week: "The Amended Statute" by Cross, buff.ly/F7L2lEX - The Download of the Week is The Amended Statute by Jesse Cross.

Redstone on Griggs v. Duke Power, buff.ly/4fBxM7Z - Ilana Redstone (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Sociology) has posted The Unintended Consequences of Griggs V. Duke Power on SSRN.

Wasserman on Trump v. CASA, buff.ly/tPD5tPf - Howard Wasserman (Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law) has posted Constitutional Litigation After Trump v. CASA on SSRN.

Jotwell: Coercive Constitutionalism: Between Agency and Coercion - International & Comparative Law buff.ly/GGYHwWq

Barbas on Beauharnais, buff.ly/NzE3Wko - Samantha Barbas (University of Iowa - College of Law) has posted The Story Of Beauharnais v. Illinois (Journal of Free Speech Law, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2023) on SSRN.

Legal History Blog: Keller on China, Legal Transplants, and Policy Irritants legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/kell...

Order Without Formalism, buff.ly/TVJFayz - Jesse Cross (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted The Amended Statute (92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1291 (2025)) on SSRN.

Legal History Blog: Fighting Words at the Founding

Priel on Political Theories of the Realists, buff.ly/HsjECBJ - Dan Priel (City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - School of Law; York University - Osgoode Hall Law School) has posted The Political Theories of the Legal Realists on SSRN.

Shiman on Rules as Supreme Court Information Gathering, buff.ly/bZyFFUS - Yehonatan Shiman (Ono Academic College Faculty of Law) has posted The Role of Rules – A Model for the Pursuit of Information within the Judicial Hierarchy (29 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 861) on SSRN.

Lerer on Latin Maxims as Memes, buff.ly/vNzL148 - Ignacio Adrian Lerer has posted Dead Language, Living Law: Latin Legal Maxims as Perfect Memes on SSRN.

Oza on Changing the Highest Legal Rule, buff.ly/qJwcPge - Manish Oza (University of Western Ontario - Faculty of Law) has posted Can we legally revise the highest legal rule? (Legal Theory (forthcoming)) on SSRN.

Rapoport on Law Firm Responses to Targeting by Executive Order, buff.ly/2Pw8AmC -Nancy B. Rapoport (University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law) has posted Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders (Vol 13, Emory Corp. Gov. & Account. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

Balkin & Levinson on Popular Sovereignty, buff.ly/urniyMG - Jack M. Balkin (Yale University - Law School) & Sanford Levinson (University of Texas Law School) have posteed The Problem of "Popular" "Sovereignty" (5 Liberties 135 (2024)) on SSRN.

Legal History Blog: Larson on Rape and Medieval Canon Law legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/lars...

Suri on Ethics and AI Governancce, buff.ly/qCeYvWG - Pranay Suri (Pennsylvania State University) has posted Aligning Ethics and AI Governance: A Comparative Study of ISO 42001 and Global Standards on SSRN.

Rabanos & Spaic on AI Law Creation, buff.ly/t9c8mqx - Julieta A. Rabanos (University of Girona) & Bojan Spaic (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Law) have posted The Death of the Legal Author. Authority, Intention, and Law-Creation in the Advent of GenAI on SSRN.

Kadiri on the Pure Theory of Law, buff.ly/2eyeNjY - Abdulmaleek Kadiri (Obafemi Awolowo University) has posted Law as a System of Norms: An Analytical Study of Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory on SSRN.

Roughan on Recognition and the Concept of a Legal System, buff.ly/uKBtbE2 - Nicole Roughan (University of Auckland - Faculty of Law) has posted Recognition in the Concept of a Legal System (Burazin, Himma and Pino (Eds) Jurisprudence in the Mirror (Oxford University Press)) on SSRN.

Jefferis on Excessive Force, buff.ly/EBgeblO - Danielle C. Jefferis (University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law) has posted Our Progressively Brutal Constitution: A Legal Expressivist Account of the Excessive Force Doctrine on SSRN.

Legal History Blog: University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop, AY 2025-26 legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/univ...

Pereira on Entrenched Contitutional Clauses, buff.ly/4ylsKNA - Jane Reis Gonçalves Pereira (Rio de Janeiro State University) has posted Entrenched Clauses (Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]. Oxford University Press, 2022, p. 1-20) on SSRN.

Guevara & Valdez on Exclusionary Ableism, buff.ly/lDNQf0D - Dr. Angélica Guevara (Indiana University - Kelley School of Business) & Tania N. Valdez (George Washington University Law School) have posted Exclusionary Ableism on SSRN.

Barrera-Rojas on Substantial Interference with Religious Convictions and Public Educagtion, buff.ly/QqqMLHY - Jorge Barrera-Rojas (Yale University - Law School) has posted From Mahmoud v. Taylor to Strasbourg: The Substantial-Interference Test in Public Education on SSRN.

Heikal on Constitutional Trust, buff.ly/zlA9ta7 - Sherif Heikal (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Hankuk University) has posted Constitutional Trust and its Breakdown: A Fiduciary Analysis of Executive Power in South Korea and the Arab Spring States on SSRN.

Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI, buff.ly/S3sT27b - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proc. 20th Intern. Conf. on AI & Law (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.

Squitieri on Qui Tam and Article II, buff.ly/K03laf1 - Chad Squitieri (The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law) has posted Qui Tam Relators as Article IV Officials on SSRN.

Kuntz on Formalism and Realism, buff.ly/8mxidNA - hilo Kuntz (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) has posted Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts (American Journal of Jurisprudence (forthcoming)) on SSRN.

Stein on Statutory Interpretation, buff.ly/OHn84Dx - Alex Stein (Israel Supreme Court) has posted Between Probabilism and Pragmatism: An Essay on Statutory Interpretation on SSRN.

Pruss & Allen on AI Judging, buff.ly/emlNDPq - Dasha Pruss (University of Illinois Chicago) & Jessie Allen (University of Pittsburgh - School of Law) have posted Against AI Jurisprudence: Large Language Models and the False Promises of Empirical Judging on SSRN.

Gingerich on Surreal Speech, buff.ly/n04yobd - Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers Law School) has posted Thinking in the Dark: The Case for Surreal Speech on SSRN.

Marcos & Waltermann on the Logics of International Law, buff.ly/vv5ltBx - Henrique Marcos (Maastricht University) & Antonia Waltermann (Maastricht University - Faculty of Law) have posted The Logic(s) of International Law on SSRN.

Legal Theory Lexicon: Efficiency, Pareto, and Kaldor-Hicks, buff.ly/d0Ca2f5 - This Lexicon entry explores the idea of efficiency in normative law and economics.

Download of the Week: "Plutocratic Democracy, Elon Musk, and the Limits of Campaign Finance Reform" by Charles & Peale, buff.ly/99zILB4 - The Download of the Week is Plutocratic Democracy, Elon Musk, and the Limits of Campaign Finance Reform by Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Farris Peale.

Legal Theory Bookworm: "Listening to the Law" by Barrett, buff.ly/02hIfR7 - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution by Amy Coney Barrett.

Enforcing Morality | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame buff.ly/wRgkKk0

Legal History Blog: Aulakh's "Empire and the Peasant Proprietor"

Iskandar on an Indonesian Folk Theory of the Unitary State, buff.ly/WT4ldoe - Pranoto Iskandar (McGill University, Tarumanagara University) has posted Negara Kesatuan, A Different Kind of Unitary State: Theorizing a Folk Theory of the State on SSRN.