Conjectures & Arguments, Philosophy & Law

Monday, May 6, 2019

Birthright citizenship and the 13th Amendment

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This is not a typo.   Of course it is the 14 th Amendment that contains the citizenship clause and so is front and center in every s...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

"high Crimes and Misdemeanors" as a Term of Art

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In the interpretation of enacted law terms of art , for example, “third degree of consanguinity,” have a special place.   Just how speci...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Libertarian Island III: Coercion and Degrees of Freedom

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Where we left off shipwrecked Ann, whom I have called a “left- libertarian,” has not been able to convince shipwrecked right-libertarian Bob...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Is a Non-Amendable Constitutional Provision Legitimate?

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Is Impeachment Mandatory?

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The distinguished Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein has recently argued, in a widely published opinion piece, that if a US president...
Monday, October 15, 2018

“Her” Computer Consciousness: Can an Artificial Intelligence Be In Love?

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The 2013 movie Her , for which Spike Jonze, won an Oscar for best screenplay, raises the question whether one day soon there could be artifi...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Mitchell's Memo on Ford and Kavenaugh

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“A ‘h e said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that…I do not think that a reasonable p...
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Lawrence Crocker
My Ph.D, was from the Harvard Philosophy Department of Rawls, Putnam, Quine, Nozick, Kripke, Boyd et. al. in 1970. I taught at the University of Washington. Later with a J.D. from Duke, I clerked on the 9th Circuit, did corporate, then air crash litigation, then prosecuted in Manhattan, taught at NYU law, litigated some more, and then taught philosophy at Dartmouth, where I am now a Resident Scholar.
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