Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Anthony Michael Kreis
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After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
Cheers to @kabcommons.bsky.social on this stellar article. She is a thoughtful, meticulous scholar. I recommend this to anyone who is interested.
And, on a personal note, I am glad to call Kathleen a valued and trusted colleague in the academy-- worth not just a read, but certainly a follow, too.
Call for Papers: Guest Student Scholar at NOMOS (ASPLP)
The annual meeting of NOMOS (the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy) is pleased to announce a Guest Student Scholar presentation in connection with its annual meeting. Please distribute the following call for papers to…
To produce and preserve knowledge in the pursuit of truth.
Et docere et rerum exquirere causas.
To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.
“If you start looking at the sources he’s citing, they often just don’t say what he says they say, and the underlying logic and principles that he’s trying to convey don’t work.”
The more archival work I do, the more I find what @kewhittington.bsky.social says.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In 1869, a year after the 14A was ratified, the Lord Chief Justice articulated the common law rule on natural born subjects, shown here.
Compare that with Thomas Jefferson’s 1783 notes on the common law.
Is there any evidence that the LJC and TJ were wrong, but Professor Wurman et al. are right?
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
And another thing: allegiance for protection is out of order, unless the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution never happened.
"On advice of His Majesty’s Government, and at the invitation of The President of the United States, The King and Queen will undertake a State Visit to the United States of America."
Explicitly, what is that higher calling?
Anthony Michael Kreis
Anthony Michael Kreis
legaltheoryblog.com
The annual meeting of NOMOS (the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy) is pleased to announce a Guest Student Scholar presentation in connection with its annual meeting. Please distribute the following call for papers to graduate students who may be interested: CALL FOR PAPERS: NOMOS, aka The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) invites applications by Ph.D. students, S.J.D.
