Yesterday, we came to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Aber heute kann man fragen, ob nun vielleicht doch noch "Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie – Was leistet die Systemforschung?" von 1971 ins Englische übersetzt werden darf?
George Duke
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Constitutional theory, legal theory, sociology of law, history of political and legal thought. A/Prof at Deakin Law School
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Check out the new Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social and Lucia Rubinelli @luxirubsi.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Call for papers for the 2026 Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference is now open! For more details please see our website: www.aslp.org.au/conference
Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not. Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ. academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
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We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law. First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
A new volume of Comparative Constitutional Studies is out. Honouring @cherylas1.bsky.social, with contributions on the themes that dominated her trailblazing career: global constitutionalism, federalism, constitution making and rule of law. 🌟Open access for the next three weeks. 🌟
My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine. Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
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Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Parmagianino (1523)
Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!
George Duke@georgeduke21.bsky.social · 2y agoThis article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems. A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems. A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems - Volume 13 Issue 3
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1/ Ming-Sung Kuo's important article on the objects & corresponding methods of comparative constitutional studies, forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and available on SSRN, can be read as an effort to systematize pluralist & eclectic methods in wide use. I remain skeptical about ...
Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
Published version of my critique of appeals to "constitutional values" now available online first in Federal Law Review. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
George Duke@georgeduke21.bsky.social · 2y agoMy recent paper on Australian constitutional values is now available on SSRN (to appear soon in the Federal Law Review). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review) Paper attempts to: - Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory - Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ideological Constitutionalism
A renewed interest in the concept of ideology is evident in recent constitutional theory. Ideology has featured prominently not only in restatements of traditional Marxist positions and attempted ret....
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New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review) Paper attempts to: - Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory - Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ideological Constitutionalism
A renewed interest in the concept of ideology is evident in recent constitutional theory. Ideology has featured prominently not only in restatements of traditional Marxist positions and attempted ret....
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My recent paper on Australian constitutional values is now available on SSRN (to appear soon in the Federal Law Review). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
