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So I'll be going on the market this month, presenting this piece, recently accepted for publication in the Canadian J of Law & Jurisprudence. I'll post a version on ssrn soon; let me know if you'd like to read the penultimate draft.

Our paper--Challenging the State’s Claim to Authority-- is officially published (open access) in Law & Philosophy! @yaromeir.bsky.social and I explore the relationship between states' normative claims and their de-facto power Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Challenging the State’s Claim to Authority - Law and Philosophy

The state’s authority involves elements of legitimacy and power. A rich body of literature addresses the former, de jure aspect of authority. This article explores the latter, de facto aspect, and its...

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Excited to see this one out soon, with the inimitable @tkenneth.bsky.social. We argue for an orienting relation between de jure and de facto authority, stress the importance of political power, and show how attention to it reveals the dynamics of state authority. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

I reviewed Tom Adams's new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity on @jotwell.bsky.social : check it out! (And read Tom's paper, it is great). juris.jotwell.com/clarifying-l...