🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Delighted to announce the CfP for Vol V of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory @OUPLaw w/ support fr @notredamelaw.bsky.social and @law.rutgers.edu. Papers to be presented at a workshop at @UctLaw in Cape Town in Jan '27. Pls submit! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Thanks @maybell.bsky.social! Really looking fwd to this!

🎉 JUST POSTED 🎉 My latest, "What the Realists Got Right," now on SSRN. Grateful for feedback from many ppl, and especially @brianleiter.bsky.social Also grateful to Thilo Kuntz (HHU) & Andrew Gold (UCI) for organizing & hosting the AJJ symposium on legal realism. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Check out this new blog post from the editors of Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law, Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky #Philosophy #PrivateLaw cup.org/4lYu90z

A rejuvenation & interrogation of the legal philosophy of Adolf Reinach, analyzed alongside contemporary private law theory Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky https://cup.org/4me5DYZ

Delighted to be hosting colleagues @notredame.bsky.social as an element of our partnership with @telavivuni.bsky.social. And of course it has been great working with fellow co-organizers. Looking forward to a rich set of discussions over the coming days!

I had a fantastic day yesterday with colleagues at Catholic U. Milan. Grateful to Giuseppe Portonera and Profs Nicolussi and Benatti for inviting me to speak about the New Private Law and methodology in private law theory. Grazie mille to my hosts for the enriching discussion!

My colleague here @notredame.bsky.social, Jeff Pojanowski, does a wonderful service for legal phil by editing the Am J Jurisprudence w/ Richard Ekins @ox.ac.uk. Per Jeff, the AJJ has just published a lost essay by the great HLA Hart, which you may find here: academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...

Thanks @lsolum.bsky.social for the “highly recommended” endorsement of my latest paper. Very grateful! And comments via email are welcomed!

🚨Just Posted🚨 my latest, "Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office," for What is Good Government? (workshopped @harvardkennedy.bsky.social). Examines qs of political morality (esp judicial role morality) + gen juris (formalism, realism, legality). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨Reminder - Call for Papers - Legal Personhood in Private Law🚨 (Details below). Join us in Rome in Nov '25! Travel costs fully covered. Papers due Jan 31 '25. Excited to be working w/ Eva Micheler and Chris Essert & grateful to ND, LSE and Toronto law schools for support. Pls repost, share.