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  1. A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

    The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #authority #Constitution #executivepower #government #legaltheory #limitsofpower #power #presidency #president

  2. A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

    The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #authority #Constitution #executivepower #government #legaltheory #limitsofpower #power #presidency #president

  3. A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

    The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #authority #Constitution #executivepower #government #legaltheory #limitsofpower #power #presidency #president

  4. A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

    The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #authority #Constitution #executivepower #government #legaltheory #limitsofpower #power #presidency #president

  5. A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

    The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #authority #Constitution #executivepower #government #legaltheory #limitsofpower #power #presidency #president

  6. A Heap of IP at Santa Clara (WIPIP 2024)

    Today I presented my work in progress, "A Heap of IP: Vagueness in the Delineation of Intellectual Property Rights," at the Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Conference at Santa Clara University School of Law. This project seeks to connect philosophical literature on v

    jeremysheff.com/2024/02/03/a-h

    #LegalTheory #Scholarship #IntellectualProperty #LawAndPhilosophy #LegalScholarship

  7. An international conference on Jürgen Habermas' Legal Theory, May 26 - 27, 2023, at the University of Buffalo.

    Zoom access is available.

    Information: buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events

    Speakers: Seyla Benhabib, Isabelle Aubert, David Ingram, Matthew Specter, Cristina Lafont, William Scheuerman, John D. Abromeit, Phillip Hansen, Brian Caterino, Rurion Melo, Matthew Dimick, and Erin Pineda.

    #philosophy #legaltheory #politicaltheory #Habermas #criticaltheory

  8. A crime punished with a fine is a service that you only have to pay for if caught.

    #uspol #LegalTheory

  9. For those interested in #LegalTheory or #AfricanLaw, I recommend this piece just out, by Angi Porter, a former post-doc fellow I had the pleasure of advising.
    “Africana Legal Studies: A New Theoretical Approach to Law & Protocol”, published in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.
    repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/v

    #LawFedi #BlackMastodon

  10. Presentation: Knowledge as a Resource at WIPIP 2023

    I recently presented "Knowledge as a Resource" - an excerpt from my book project "Valuing Progress" - at WIPIP 2023. Slides available at the link.

    jeremysheff.com/2023/02/06/pre

    #LegalTheory #NormativeTheory #Presentations #Scholarship #ValuingProgress

  11. New Paper on Reverse Confusion in George Mason Law Review

    I've posted a newly published paper to SSRN: Reverse Confusion and the Justification of Trademark Protection, 30 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 123 (2022). This paper continues my series of critiques of the law-and-economics model of trademark law--which doesn't match the cases very

    jeremysheff.com/2023/01/24/new

    #LegalTheory #legalscholarship #Trademark #TrademarkasPromise

  12. This article was one of the last I read in 2022 and has really stuck in my mind. "The Folk Concept of Law: #Law Is Intrinsically Moral" (Flanagan and Hannikainen). While we (legal scholars, broadly) may think of "what the law is" in abstract terms, it's important to consider how law is popularly understood.

    It's also worth questioning if popular understandings of the law change what the law is - or how it is understood and related to. #legaltheory #morals #philosophy

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

  13. Going to a edit a book for Edward Elgar Publishing: A Research Agenda for Comparative Law (2024). e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/book-seri

    The book has a simple purpose: to outline the future of research in (broadly understood) comparative law.

    Contributors are Geoffrey Samuel, Fernanda Pirie, Jen Hendry, Michael Palmer Jan Engberg, Ralf Michaels & Lena Salaymeh, Thomas Duve, Catalina Goanta, Liu Qiao, and yours truly. #comparativelaw #legaltheory #legalhistory #legalscholarship

  14. 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 elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo
    #legalphilosophy #legaltheory #jurisprudence

  15. Please, I need someone to explain this to me.

    Democrats want to end the filibuster in the US Senate. Does this not work against the Democrats in a scenario involving Republican control of the US Senate?

    No party remains in control forever, and a failure to recognize that fact of life is short-sighted and potentially disastrous.

    I feel as if I'm missing some crucial part of this argument, so please enlighten me.

    #senate #filibuster #politics #legaltheory

  16. It seems some server issues of the last days call for a re-#introduction. Apologies for lost followings/posts!

    I am #DigitalHumanitites Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (lhlt.mpg.de/) in Frankfurt/M., supporting projects in all their digital needs: #DigitalEdition, #NLP, #GraphDatabases, #DataModeling, #LOD, #RSE - Jack of all trades, master of none.

    Also, I am philosopher by training with a focus on legal, political and social philosophy and their histories. #DiscourseTheory, #PostPhenomenology, #Deconstruction, #EarlyModernity. I study the development of #SocialTheory in Spanish #Scholasticism. I'm collaborator in both my "digital" and my "philosophical" roles to The School of Salamanca project (salamanca.school/) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

    Tooting mostly about work, some politics and occasionally just funny things.

    Find Pronouns and Orcid in my profile.
    (I have the same handle on the birdsite.)

  17. It seems some server issues of the last days call for a re-#introduction. Apologies for lost followings/posts!

    I am #DigitalHumanitites Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (lhlt.mpg.de/) in Frankfurt/M., supporting projects in all their digital needs: #DigitalEdition, #NLP, #GraphDatabases, #DataModeling, #LOD, #RSE - Jack of all trades, master of none.

    Also, I am philosopher by training with a focus on legal, political and social philosophy and their histories. #DiscourseTheory, #PostPhenomenology, #Deconstruction, #EarlyModernity. I study the development of #SocialTheory in Spanish #Scholasticism. I'm collaborator in both my "digital" and my "philosophical" roles to The School of Salamanca project (salamanca.school/) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

    Tooting mostly about work, some politics and occasionally just funny things.

    Find Pronouns and Orcid in my profile.
    (I have the same handle on the birdsite.)

  18. It seems some server issues of the last days call for a re-#introduction. Apologies for lost followings/posts!

    I am #DigitalHumanitites Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (lhlt.mpg.de/) in Frankfurt/M., supporting projects in all their digital needs: #DigitalEdition, #NLP, #GraphDatabases, #DataModeling, #LOD, #RSE - Jack of all trades, master of none.

    Also, I am philosopher by training with a focus on legal, political and social philosophy and their histories. #DiscourseTheory, #PostPhenomenology, #Deconstruction, #EarlyModernity. I study the development of #SocialTheory in Spanish #Scholasticism. I'm collaborator in both my "digital" and my "philosophical" roles to The School of Salamanca project (salamanca.school/) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

    Tooting mostly about work, some politics and occasionally just funny things.

    Find Pronouns and Orcid in my profile.
    (I have the same handle on the birdsite.)

  19. It seems some server issues of the last days call for a re-#introduction. Apologies for lost followings/posts!

    I am #DigitalHumanitites Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (lhlt.mpg.de/) in Frankfurt/M., supporting projects in all their digital needs: #DigitalEdition, #NLP, #GraphDatabases, #DataModeling, #LOD, #RSE - Jack of all trades, master of none.

    Also, I am philosopher by training with a focus on legal, political and social philosophy and their histories. #DiscourseTheory, #PostPhenomenology, #Deconstruction, #EarlyModernity. I study the development of #SocialTheory in Spanish #Scholasticism. I'm collaborator in both my "digital" and my "philosophical" roles to The School of Salamanca project (salamanca.school/) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

    Tooting mostly about work, some politics and occasionally just funny things.

    Find Pronouns and Orcid in my profile.
    (I have the same handle on the birdsite.)

  20. It seems some server issues of the last days call for a re-#introduction. Apologies for lost followings/posts!

    I am #DigitalHumanitites Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (lhlt.mpg.de/) in Frankfurt/M., supporting projects in all their digital needs: #DigitalEdition, #NLP, #GraphDatabases, #DataModeling, #LOD, #RSE - Jack of all trades, master of none.

    Also, I am philosopher by training with a focus on legal, political and social philosophy and their histories. #DiscourseTheory, #PostPhenomenology, #Deconstruction, #EarlyModernity. I study the development of #SocialTheory in Spanish #Scholasticism. I'm collaborator in both my "digital" and my "philosophical" roles to The School of Salamanca project (salamanca.school/) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

    Tooting mostly about work, some politics and occasionally just funny things.

    Find Pronouns and Orcid in my profile.
    (I have the same handle on the birdsite.)

  21. This is such a good summary of metalinguistic negotiation. The internet is full of these types of arguments, especially if lawyers are also involved.

    lsolum.typepad.com/legal_theor

    #LegalTheory

  22. Hello!
    I'm new here - a recent convert from twitter where I spent years building a community to share ideas with. I'd love to connect with others from #law #academia #legaltheory #criminology #sociology #criminaljustice #highered #higheredtech #pedagogy #socialjustice

  23. Hello (again).
    I'm Adam. I'm a constitutional lawyer at the University of Liverpool.

    I'm particularly interested in
    - the limits of parliament's law-making power (yes, I think there are some)
    - the scrutiny of delegated legislation (I think it's not done well enough)
    - the future of the monarchy (I am sceptical).

    #Introduction #Introductions

    #Law #Academia #LegalAcademic
    #ConstitutionalLaw #PublicLaw Maybe some #LegalTheory #Jurisprudence
    #Legislatures #JudicialPower #ExecutivePower

  24. In this paper, @jukkamahonen and I propose that business law theory should be reconceptualised. We explain why and suggest how - and we are looking forward to constructive comments before we submit this as an article to a journal! #SustainabilityLaw #LegalTheory #Interdisciplinarity #Sustainability #RegulatoryEcology #BusinessLaw #CompanyLaw #Law #Economics
    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  25. A re-#introduction as I recently moved instances.

    I am a legal theorist, working at #DalhousieUniversity in Halifax, Canada. This year, I am teaching #TortLaw and #Jurisprudence. I am also a member of Dal’s #HealthLaw Institute.

    My research is in #LegalTheory, particularly as that relates to the lawful use and disposal of living and dead human bodies and body parts. In doing so, I often draw on cultural legal studies, legal and political philosophy and social theory.

  26. I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

    If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

  27. I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

    If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

  28. I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

    If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

  29. I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

    If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

  30. Hello, so I think you are supposed to do an #introduction post...here goes

    I'm Aoife I'm a #LawProfs Prof at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law where I do #international law #legalfeminism #lawandhumanities #lawandhistory #feminism #legaltheory #feministconstitutionalism
    I'm generally from #IrishTwitter, #AcademicTwitter, #LawTwitter #corktwitter

    I like Cork, films, books, the craic and knowing top facts

  31. Hello, so I think you are supposed to do an #introduction post...here goes

    I'm Aoife I'm a #LawProfs Prof at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law where I do #international law #legalfeminism #lawandhumanities #lawandhistory #feminism #legaltheory #feministconstitutionalism
    I'm generally from #IrishTwitter, #AcademicTwitter, #LawTwitter #corktwitter

    I like Cork, films, books, the craic and knowing top facts

  32. Hello, so I think you are supposed to do an #introduction post...here goes

    I'm Aoife I'm a #LawProfs Prof at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law where I do #international law #legalfeminism #lawandhumanities #lawandhistory #feminism #legaltheory #feministconstitutionalism
    I'm generally from #IrishTwitter, #AcademicTwitter, #LawTwitter #corktwitter

    I like Cork, films, books, the craic and knowing top facts

  33. Hello, so I think you are supposed to do an #introduction post...here goes

    I'm Aoife I'm a #LawProfs Prof at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law where I do #international law #legalfeminism #lawandhumanities #lawandhistory #feminism #legaltheory #feministconstitutionalism
    I'm generally from #IrishTwitter, #AcademicTwitter, #LawTwitter #corktwitter

    I like Cork, films, books, the craic and knowing top facts