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Justice is often defended as fair. That claim does a lot of work, most of it before anyone realises it’s working at all.
🎲 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/24/the-felt-beneath-the-table/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=socialThis essay looks at fairness and commensurability not as moral virtues, but as preconditions quietly installed so that retributive justice can function at all.
#philosophy #Justice #LegalPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #Ontology #PhilosophyOfLaw #PowerAndKnowledge #Fairness #InstitutionalCritique #Jurispridence #Blog #Podcast
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Justice is often defended as fair. That claim does a lot of work, most of it before anyone realises it’s working at all.
🎲 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/24/the-felt-beneath-the-table/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=socialThis essay looks at fairness and commensurability not as moral virtues, but as preconditions quietly installed so that retributive justice can function at all.
#philosophy #Justice #LegalPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #Ontology #PhilosophyOfLaw #PowerAndKnowledge #Fairness #InstitutionalCritique #Jurispridence #Blog #Podcast
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New on our blog!
Debating Cosmopolitan Law – 9 Years On
#CosmopolitanLaw #HistoryOfInternationalLaw #LegalPhilosophy
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/debating-cosmopolitan-law-9-years-on/
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New on our blog!
Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation
#CustomaryInternationalLaw #InternationalLegalTheory #Interpretation #LegalPhilosophy
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/reflections-on-customary-international-law-and-interpretation/
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CW: New publication: Exploitation and the Desirability of Unenforced Law
In some economic conditions, coercively enforced anti-exploitation laws may harm the people they are intended to help. Under these conditions, legislatures should consider enacting anti-exploitation laws that include a mixture of enforced and explicitly unenforced provisions.
Forthcoming in Business Ethics Quarterly. Open access PDF available.
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CW: LGBT rights and "religious liberty" (1/3)
Recent academic and legal discourse in the U.S. mistakenly asserts that there is a conflict between religious liberty and LGBT rights.
Religious exemptions to laws are often justified when the law in question is paternalistic or when the public bears the burdens of an exemption.
We should allow exemptions to drug laws for people who want to use peyote in a religious ritual. Draft laws should allow for conscientious objection.
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CW: LGBT rights and "religious liberty" (1/3)
Recent academic and legal discourse in the U.S. mistakenly asserts that there is a conflict between religious liberty and LGBT rights.
Religious exemptions to laws are often justified when the law in question is paternalistic or when the public bears the burdens of an exemption.
We should allow exemptions to drug laws for people who want to use peyote in a religious ritual. Draft laws should allow for conscientious objection.
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The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6
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The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6
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The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6
#ShareYourWork (Pinned profile post has hashtag explainer)
#LegalWriting
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The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6
#ShareYourWork (Pinned profile post has hashtag explainer)
#LegalWriting
#LegalPhilosophy
#Argumentation
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The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6
#ShareYourWork (Pinned profile post has hashtag explainer)
#LegalWriting
#LegalPhilosophy
#Argumentation
#ArgumentationSchemes
#WritingStudies
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Thanks in part to great suggestions I've had over the last couple days about making my Mastodon experience even better, I'm following a bunch of folks from #lawfedi #philosophy and #CommStudies. Just sayin in case I look like some kinda crazy follow-bot. I use hashtags to post on and track topics I'm interested in. Follow back if any of these are your gigs:
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#TeamRhetoric
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Thanks in part to great suggestions I've had over the last couple days about making my Mastodon experience even better, I'm following a bunch of folks from #lawfedi #philosophy and #CommStudies. Just sayin in case I look like some kinda crazy follow-bot. I use hashtags to post on and track topics I'm interested in. Follow back if any of these are your gigs:
#LawProfs
#argumentation
#LegalPhilosophy
#LegalWriting
#TeamRhetoric
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@aaron_bruhl @jessecross Very eager to see this research on #SSRN (and happy to provide feedback, if you are looking for it). Looking deeper into how #briefs and #courts use #LegalAuthorities in their arguments is my jam. Links to my 2021 and 2022 papers on that below. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814925 & https://ssrn.com/abstract=3540538
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@aaron_bruhl @jessecross Very eager to see this research on #SSRN (and happy to provide feedback, if you are looking for it). Looking deeper into how #briefs and #courts use #LegalAuthorities in their arguments is my jam. Links to my 2021 and 2022 papers on that below. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814925 & https://ssrn.com/abstract=3540538
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Any #mastodonlawprofs looking for #legalphilosophy scenarios for discussions in class? How about #Titanic and the Plank of Carneades?
“James Cameron says he has scientifically proved that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack could not have survived Titanic’s infamous “floating door” scene with Kate Winslet’s Rose.”
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Any #mastodonlawprofs looking for #legalphilosophy scenarios for discussions in class? How about #Titanic and the Plank of Carneades?
“James Cameron says he has scientifically proved that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack could not have survived Titanic’s infamous “floating door” scene with Kate Winslet’s Rose.”
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New book Interpretivism and the Limits of Law ed. by Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Francesca Poggi &Im Izabela Skończeń has just been published in Edgar Elgar. Among author: Brian Bix, David Plumkett, Paolo Sandro, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Giovanni Tuzet, Torben Spaak, Thomas Bustamante, Thiago Lopes Decat, Francesco Ferraro, David Duarte, Pedro Moniz Lopes, but also Poles: Krzysztof Posłajko, Adam Dyrda, Paweł Banaś, Marcin Matczak https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781802209327/9781802209327.xml
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Dear Void… just an #introduction 👋🏻
I’m Hugo, a #philosophy and #law #gradstudent at #Stellenbosch Uni in South Africa. Currently working on my LLM thesis in the #legalphilosophy of #animallaw. Broadly, my research draws on #decolonial theory, #criticalanimalstudies , #ecofeminism , and #posthumanism to displace #anthropocentrism as a quasi-transcendental limit of legal discourse.
Other interests include #psychoanalysis #queertheory #litfic #poetry #architecture
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Dear Void… just an #introduction 👋🏻
I’m Hugo, a #philosophy and #law #gradstudent at #Stellenbosch Uni in South Africa. Currently working on my LLM thesis in the #legalphilosophy of #animallaw. Broadly, my research draws on #decolonial theory, #criticalanimalstudies , #ecofeminism , and #posthumanism to displace #anthropocentrism as a quasi-transcendental limit of legal discourse.
Other interests include #psychoanalysis #queertheory #litfic #poetry #architecture
Uhm yeah, see y’all around ✌🏻