Fred Schauer Has Passed, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20…: It is with a heavy heart that I report that Fred Schauer passed yesterday, Sunday, the first of September, 2024.  I have known Fred for almost forty years. At the very beginning of my academic career, Fred provided comments on my

RIP Fred Schauer. Like many, I learned a ton from reading him over the years, but here's an early favorite. I read this piece as a 1L, and it changed the way I thought about "formalism," which was most often used thoughtlessly as a derogatory term in my first encounters with it.

Finally out! husovec.eu/book/

Congratulations to the 2024 Peter Birks Book Prize winners, Timothy Liau , ‘Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts' & Vilija Vėlyvytė ‘Judicial Authority in EU Internal Market Law: Implications for the Balance of Competences and Powers’

V pleased that my article on mutual consent and the conferral of authority in agency law is coming out in the OJLS! Now available on advance access: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-a…

I wrote about the rule of law, and Jeremy Waldron’s latest book on the topic, for London Review of Books. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I need this when I have a deadline approaching

🚨Delighted to announce the publication of Interstitial Private Law OUP Law, ed w/ my friend & Notre Dame Law School colleague Sam Bray + John Goldberg and Henry Smith Harvard Law School.Features a terrific line up! Check it out here: google.com/url?q=https://…

Academic job market tips: 1) Inherit wealth 2) Be luckier somehow 3) Time travel to the 90s 4) Start your own fake university

Lacuna Matata: a gap in the research that no one should worry about

“Maximizing shareholder value is my passion.”

I certainly don’t expect gifts from my advisees. But it’ll be hard to beat this one.

Harvard Law School 1L exam for Criminal Law, 1871. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view…

My university has informed us that we are moving to a “customer service” model. Not a joke.

A very interesting and thought-provoking paper. Worth reading!

This speech on judging by Justice Jagot of the High Court of Australia actually contains good advice for writers everywhere hcourt.gov.au/assets/publica…

Dr Joseph Spooner Joseph Spooner recently contributed to the UK Insolvency Service’s Personal Insolvency Review, acting as independent academic chair of a series of stakeholder workshops and has published a report of the workshop proceedings. Read more ... lse.ac.uk/law/news/2024/…

I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not Trump’s win. It is the Democrats who have lost this election.

Two years after the publication of Standing in Private Law, OUP has kindly made available for download chapter 1, free of charge. academic.oup.com/book/46686/cha…