Conor Casey
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Final draft of my Constitutional Commentary review of Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials. I argue the books arguments are undermined by the Utopianism of Political Liberalism ⬇️ Thanks
@shbarclay
@michaelpforan
@welikalaa
@dominicburbidge
for comments
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Called to the Irish Bar this morning. An added bonus was being called along with some great friends.
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Not a Sinn Fein supporter. But think silly to paint this as beyond the pale of political commentary. It’s not slagging the Gardaí, but pointing out the Government’s actions will make them party to the enforcement of an unjust property regime, with antecedents in our history.
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We got married (sacramentally) yesterday in Trinity College Dublin Chapel surrounded by friends and family from far and wide. My cup overflows!
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Delighted to say passed PhD viva exam this morning. Only possible due to family, faith, and countless friends. Many thanks to you all.
@cgdanda
@dkennytcd
@RA_Costello
@dairemccg
@oran_doyle
@hogan_hilary
@TCDLawSchool
@OrlaKelleher92
@ecasey114
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Got (civilly) married today! Looking forward to our sacramental wedding in Dublin 1st July - but today was a truly lovely day.
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One of the greatest of all time
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V happy to say I’ll be joining University of Liverpool School of Law
@LivUniSLSJ
as lecturer/assistant professor in August 2021. Would not have been possible without lots of friends, family, colleagues advice&help along the way. Thanks to all.
@cgdanda
@dkennytcd
@DonalkCoffey
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Watching old home videos a while back came across this gem. My sister sends it on my bday every year to remind me of how good a brother Ive always been.
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After many years of fundraising my local church unveils its new facade. Some beautiful stone masonry work done.
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Having spent the vast vast majority of my Italian based postdoc in (the lovely but v much not Italian) Northern Ireland, I have to say it is good to be back.
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Excited to say I will be joining the University of Surrey Law School
@LawAtSurrey
as a Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof in Public Law & Legal Theory effective June 2023. Looking forward to joining such a powerhouse of legal theory and jurisprudence!
@SurreyCentreLP
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John M. Kelly is probably best known as the leading Irish constitutional scholar of his day, writing the leading textbook that still bears his name. But he was equally a learned scholar of Roman law&jurisprudence. His intro to legal theory is an excellent gem,highly recommended
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Submitted PhD this morning. Only possible with the profound help of family, faith, friends and a great supervisor. Thanks to
@TLRHub
@TCDLawSchool
@davidkenny311
@cgdanda
@James_Rooney_93
@RA_Costello
and countless others.
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Many thanks to all our well wishers. Two things- first, I am indeed delightedly punching above my weight; second, we seriously would appreciate all your prayers for our engagement!
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Can’t recommend this book enough. Its erudition is stunning & every other line offers compelling insights as relevant the day were written on: natural laws relationship to posited law, flexibility re forms of government, and importance of CG as source of laws authority. Go&read!
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@Binette228
The fact I had to do three degrees and a post doc to get an entry level position. Really gave me the time and space I needed to decide if it really was the right path for me.
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Delighted to join
@LivUniSLSJ
as Lecturer in Law. Looking forward to getting to know new colleagues/students. Wouldn’t be here without my beloved family & dear friends/colleagues and their help
@cgdanda
@dkennytcd
@oran_doyle
@DonalkCoffey
@Vermeullarmine
@CiaranTolandSC
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The birth of Christ would usher in a moral revolution whose ripples are still being felt today.
It’s why the cruelty of the Roman world feels so alien to most of us
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V happy to be cited by Court of Appeal in Burke v Minister for Education. Looks like a blockbuster case for admin/con lawyers. Court clarifies that exercises of executive power not automatically subject to most deferential ‘clear disregard’ of constitution test 1/3
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A simply devastating outline of why the Bar should not give itself plaudits for being an inclusive profession. Mentions inter alia comically high entry costs and reflexive hostility to considering reform as parts of problem
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Bought early 1945 copy of Ireland’s 1937 Constitution. Always fascinated by the original article 44 which not only recognised Catholic Church as guardian of the majority faith, but also the Jewish congregations of Ireland, at a time of horrific European anti Semitism.
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I *may* be writing something about the natural law tradition atm.
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Interesting
@FinancialTimes
profile of my occasionally divisive friend and colleague
@Vermeullarmine
. Worth a read!
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V happy to see my essay on John Finnis' treatment of constitutional design & theory published in the American Journal of Jurisprudence. Its available open access here:
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Delighted to have piece forthcoming with
@HarvardJLPP
co-authored with
@Vermeullarmine
on ‘Myths of Common Good Constitutionalism’. We hope it will address some frequent critiques and move debate forward. Here’s link to draft:
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Happy to say my piece with the Modern Law Review on fair procedures, separation of powers, and citizenship stripping is now available online & open access:
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Paul Mescal looking like a Minister in W.T. Cosgrave’s Free State government circa 1927
Paul Mescal is seen on the set of 'The History of Sound' in Tarquinia, Italy.
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Woops! Ah sure, no harm done, we all make mistakes.
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Soon to be colleague sent me little snap of my soon to be office at
@LivUniSLSJ
. Makes it feel real! Truly delighted to be joining such welcoming colleagues and a great law school.
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John Finnis wrote Natural Law & Natural Rights (one of the most influential modern restatements of the classical legal tradition) only 15 years post PhD, around the age of 40. A truly stunning intellectual achievement.
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V happy to see my piece on the basics of new debate over common good constitutionalism officially published in Public Law October volume. Available now on Westlaw U.K. Have off-print PDFs for any interested.
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16k is the absolute best scholarship available for PhD students to my knowledge. Most on a lot less. Makes going into academia preserve of middle/upper classes and those who can somehow live rent free. Not good.
For context: €16,000 is the total annual pay of a PhD student (and rates haven’t changed in 10+ years)
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V happy to say have article out with
@dkennytcd
in International Journal of Constitutional Law. It’s a comparative study of executive branch lawyers and their impact on executive power. Available open access here:
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While I can’t bear to read it yet, if anyone interested in a comparative constitutional study of executive power and executive dominance, my PhD thesis has been made open access by Trinity. Looks at the how and why of executive dominance in Ireland, UK &US
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My friend Adrian Vermeule will not like that the US Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron doctrine, but he should take solace in the correct observation of Justice Kagan that he (along with
@CassSunstein
) is one of the finest administrative law scholars of his time. Congrats!
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Mr Justice Gerard Hogan J. about today's Supreme Court case in Costello: "the present appeal may yet be regarded as among the most important which this Court has been required to hear and determine in its almost 100-year history." Hence the 7 judgments across 500+ pages!
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Happy to start new year by having my first US law review piece officially published by
@MdLRev
-short comparative essay on executive control of the bureaucracy. The editors were just exceptional in the help they gave. Article available here:
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We haven’t got full wedding album back from photographer yet, but got a few sneak peaks! Wonderful memories
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V happy to say
@dkennytcd
and I’s piece on Star Wars and it’s lessons for constitutional law is now published open access with Law & Literature. Looking forward to this sparking future debates with Galactic Empire haters and losers:
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He’s not on X at the moment, but if you want Prof Adrian Vermeule’s take on the US Supreme Courts overruling of Chevron we have it over
@thenewdigest
⬇️
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Married the most wonderful woman
EVERYONE INCLUDED; Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2023 that you’re proud of?
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If AG advises it’s unconstitutional and the Government choose to drop measure and not test in Courts, then it’ll be a powerful indictment of how powerful AG has become and how their role now often badly distorts policymaking/ detracts from role of Gov and the Courts
@dkennytcd
Government asks AG about legality of ban on housing estate bulk-buys
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Finally getting around to reading “Say Nothing”. I’ve read a tonne about the Troubles and history of my homeland. And this is one of the most chilling passages I’ve ever encountered.
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A gross insult to Saint Brigid and to the Cross of Christ, but that’s probably the point…
➡️On St Brigid’s Day Bank Holiday, NWC and the Abortion Working Group are calling for the Government to take action on
#abortionaccess
📌Five years on from repeal, women’s access to reproductive healthcare in Ireland is still not guaranteed.
❌This isn’t good enough
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For reasons unknown I’ve been sent a second LLB degree parchment instead of the PhD one id been waiting on. So if there’s a Conor Casey out there who’d like to buy - at a really reasonable rate - a law degree from Ireland’s best university, then please do hit me up.
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If this pans out, it’ll put Canada even further down it’s current path of disrespecting the most fundamental of rights. Very worrying rights backsliding going on. Needs more attention from scholars of public law!
Canada will legalize medically assisted dying for people addicted to drugs next spring.
Some drug user activists are calling it "eugenics" and say Canada should be paying for better harm reduction practices:
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There can be no common good in a country as wealthy as ours without a just and fair economy where work pays a wage that is fit for families to live on. My good friend Jack Larkin points out one part of the solution below:
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My hotel room in DC…I can only hope Irish hotels follow suit some day.
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Was v happy to present evidence this morning to the House of Lords Constitution Committee on the role of the Law Officers. Great to present alongside
@ConorMcCormick
. Recording here:
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Delighted to be cited by the Irish Supreme Court in a judgment concerning the non delegation doctrine and how much statutory rulemaking authority Parliament can vest in the executive.
Draft of cited paper here:
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Following Supreme Court, President Irvine issues High Court practice direction allowing public access to the written submissions of parties to proceedings. Excellent resource for students, academics, and practitioners.
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Irish Supreme Court has upheld the Judicial Appointments Bill in the Art 26 Reference made by President Higgins.
I’m honoured to be cited by the Court in its judgment.
One of my first pieces ever published, back in 2017 with the
@dulawjournal
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V happy to be starting fellowship at
@MaxWeberProgram
. First day in Florence today. It really is as lovely as everyone said it would be.
Villa Paola is open again too!
We look forward to meeting the new cohort of
#MWFellows
next week!
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V happy to say article by
@davidkenny311
and myself on underexplored expressions of political constitutionalism in Ireland and Japan has been published by International Journal of Constitutional Law. Link here if any interest:
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Happy to say I’ll be joining the
@EuropeanUni
next year as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow. So bit of incentive to get the PhD done and dusted in good order...
@MaxWeberProgram
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Not surprising a hack journalist should think orthodox Catholicism is viciously homophobic.
I just hope he’ll be adding Justice Elena Kagan to his list of incredible disappointments (who just referred to Adrian as one of the finest admin law scholars of his time).
It’s incredibly disappointing that so many law professors on here still cite and celebrate Adrian Vermeule, a 2020 election denier and vicious homophobe who openly despises LGBTQ people. Must be nice that he doesn’t want to erase your family, but we don’t all have that privilege.
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Some are critiquing
@LaurCah
because they think “not possible” should be swapped for “very very difficult”. That totally ducks the crux of the point, which is that access to this v influential & important profession is a great deal more difficult for those of modest means.
It is simply not possible to be a barrister in Ireland unless you are very well off - especially if you are not from Dublin. If we want a diverse legal community and a diverse judiciary this has to change.
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The Irish constitution is amongst the States greatest achievements, its natural law underpinning cemented a vibrant jurisprudence centred on human dignity - at a time when totalitarian fascism and communism were on the ascendancy. Pure anti-Christian dross from the Irish times.
If you read the Irish Constitution, you’ll find that, by its standards, the Burkes are a lot less weird than they seem, writes Fintan O’Toole (via
@IrishTimesOpEd
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New edition of Public Law just out. V happy to have piece by
@dkennytcd
and myself on the endurance of exec dominance in Westminster systems. Always nice to get the hard copy!
@AileenMcHarg
@mastermanmurray
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Looking forward to starting with
@LivUniSLSJ
imminently. Soon be time to swap out canonical constitutional law texts. Forgive me De Valera 🙏
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Last day in
@TCDLawSchool
after 7 years as undergrad and PhD. All can say is that it’s a special place and I’ve friends and colleagues for life because of it. On to
@EuropeanUni
now, but like 20th century voting in Chicago I hope to return to it early and often.
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Great opportunity for early career scholars with 3 years of capital reserves to burn through to set up camp in Cambridge. The coolest part is you get to set your own salary!
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V happy to say I’ll be joining Policy Exchange
@Policy_Exchange
as a Senior Fellow.
I hope to bring a comparative constitutional law angle to the Judicial Power Project’s
@judicialpwr
work on topics like constitutional balance, self-government, and judicial power. More to come!
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The American Journal of Jurisprudence has just published its special symposium issue on Common Good Constitutionalism.
A reply essay from Adrian will feature in the next issue, so stay tuned!
The link to the issue:
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happy to say article with
@eoinmauricedaly
about Irelands culture of legalism and how it stifles the autonomy of political judgment, is now available with
@Eu_Const
. Article open access here:
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V happy to say I’m joining the Dublin University Law Journal
@dulawjournal
as a co-editor, along with my friends
@oran_doyle
@hogan_hilary
& Prof Surya Roy.
We’ve big plans for the journal in the months ahead, and are proud to continue its long tradition of quality scholarship.
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Have short case note forthcoming in Public Law. I look at three recent major Irish separation of powers cases: Ryanair v. An Taoiseach, Burke v. Minister for Education, NECI v. Labour Court. Happy to send PDF if interested.
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For my private law friends: my mother in law’s friends (from Kansas) bought a house in England and they have the title deeds going back to the early 1700s
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@Vermeullarmine
Another question that should make one die a little is: ‘well who gets to decide what the common good is?’ As if all governments don’t already explicitly/implicitly act on the basis they are acting for some common good.And if they are not so acting then what are they acting for?
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My younger sister graduates from medical school on Monday. We are very proud in the Casey household and plan to treat the day with all due solemnity 👩🎓
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Extremely interesting to see Lord Sales of the U.K. Supreme Court citing approvingly to arguments made by
@Vermeullarmine
in “Common Good Constitutionalism”
Great stuff my friend!
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About to take my first class at
@LivUniSLSJ
on the Law and Social Justice module. First Q is why should we critique law. As a dedicated formalist the only answers I’ll be accepting across the next two hours is ‘for doctrinal consistency.’
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Encourage anyone interested in public law and especially executive branch to get copy of this excellent book. One of few works to offer general theoretical treatment of executive power-think Prof Mansfield ‘Taming the Prince’ in scope. Was lucky to have Prof Cohn as PhD examiner.
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Nice to see Sunday Times editorial cite work done on the Irish Attorney General by
@dkennytcd
and myself. Paper out in the Dublin University Law Journal if interested:
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Political actors often cite legal advice to justify controversial policies. Happy to say have chapter ftcoming soon with
@CambridgeUP
volume looking at how legal advice is deployed by the executive to enhance its legal credibility/ political legitimacy:
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First time visiting Oxford to celebrate my best friend Jack Larkin’s MPhil graduation. Any good pub recommendations?
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V happy to say panel proposal on ‘Constitutionalism and the Common Good’ has been accepted for
@ICON__S
Public Law conference in July. Truly excited to get to chair a panel of such excellent scholars.
@Vermeullarmine
@rachaelawalsh
@michaelpforan
@SpesScotorum
@xavierfm3
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2 years since submitted PhD…and I can say I have had absolutely no nostalgia for it whatsoever…awful craic all together
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Happy to have short comment on Irish States response to Covid in July edition of Public Law with
@dkennytcd
.We say most concerning aspect is the (possibly deliberate) disregard for basic rule of law principles.We draw on report done for
@_IHREC
with
@oran_doyle
&
@DrDonnaLyons
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Not everyday one gets cited by a US Federal judge(albeit in robustly critical way).Speech cites piece with
@Vermeullarmine
on Myths of Common Good Constitutionalism. You can read the cited piece here and compare which take on originalism is most convincing:
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My short review of Prof
@CassSunstein
and
@Vermeullarmine
‘Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State’ now available with
@ModernLRev
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Being a US Senator and VP pick are impressive achievements.
But they doubtless don’t match the high that comes with being published in the American Republic’s premier Catholic journal of letters and urbane/obscure scribblings
@thelampmagazine
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If any Irish law students ever feel beaten while down slogging through a 24 page Irish Jurist or Dublin University Law Journal article, count your blessings you are not in a US Law School: leading article in HLR 246 pages!
Good morning! Today we released the first issue of Vol. 134, aka our Supreme Court Issue. Please check out all of its content on our website, including Prof. Michael Klarman's Foreword, "The Degradation of American Democracy — And the Court."
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Delighted to get my hands on a copy of ‘Natural Law and Modern Society’, which is doubtless Professor Coyle’s magnum opus. Coyle is one of the foremost natural law jurists on these isles -so it’s a must read.
Looking forward to commenting on the book in
@bhamlaw
in April
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Congrats to
@jdmortenson
and
@Vermeullarmine
for being cited by Kagan J in West Virginia v. EPA dissent. Both fantastic articles that strongly suggest US Supreme Court is really projecting distinctly modern libertarian concerns into the past when it comes to executive rulemaking
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Nice to get the proofs. Essay gives a constructive account of Vermeule’s approach to interpretation, putting his work pre and post common good constitutionalism in conversation. Part of an edition based on a symposium held in Oxford last year.
Draft here:
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