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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is fantastic. Highly recommended.

Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Case Viewer, my quirky side project of building my ideal legal search & reading app, has come a long way. With lots of help, it's grown into the best way to find & read cases on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Check it out or download on the App Store below. And follow @CaseViewerApp for updates!

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

And read @jackbalkin.bsky.social's book! www.amazon.com/Memory-Autho...

Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)

Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) [Balkin, Jack M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

Download it! t.co/L1mqet2Nn6

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5390242

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

4th & finally, while Balkin thinks that more typical originalists' attempts to tighten uses of history are too optimistic, the charge may cut against Balkin's own deep vision of how constitutions work--of how they could help a society negotiate its moral divides.

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

... deeper still?! ...

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

...going deeper ...

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

3rd, Balkin's disagreements with more typical originalists reflect a beneath-the-surface clash over the question of why *have* a constitution at all...

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

2nd, Balkin’s account makes it harder for him to justify judicial review than it is for almost anyone else—whether more typical originalists on the one hand, or living constitutionalists on the other (pp. 2006-07)

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

1st, A theory of history’s proper uses in constitutional interp. should have a robust theory of history's *abuses,* too, but Jack Balkin’s may not
E.g., Balkin’s limits on history’s uses may be loose enough to make his own constitutional arguments too easy to refute (pp. 2004-05)

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Aug 13

New piece in Penn Law Review - “The Abuses of History in Constitutional Interpretation” - on @jackbalkin.bsky.social's
(characteristically engaging) new book.

The piece is short, esp. for me! Still, I read my own piece so that you wouldn't have to. The short version, in 4 strokes...

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 16

Dick's unbelievable generosity at the toughest imaginable moment is on display in his last email to @dorfonlaw.bsky.social (and me), which Mike included:

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 16

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https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/07/remembering-richard-fallon.html

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 16

Beautiful tribute to Dick Fallon from Mike Dorf. I was one of the many, many beneficiaries of Dick's generosity, and was honored and excited to work w/him & Mike when they asked me to join their con law casebook after Fred Schauer passed. A huge personal and professional loss.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jul 14

Oh dear. RIP to one of the great ones, as a scholar and as a person.

William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Jul 14

RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

Link - 9/9 - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How the Law School Can Succeed - An Invitation

This keynote address, delivered at the Harvard Law School Federalist Society's conference on Intellectual Diversity in the Legal Academy, in April 2013, offers

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

What the conservative job-seeker needs to do...plus the limits of desirable diversity. 8/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

So what to do? And what *not* to do... 7/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

How the friendship forged through debate doubles back to promote sharper thinking, but in the most pleasant way... 6/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

How personal friendship can be forged, not just despite, but *through,* disagreement... 5/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

Another aim for diversity--civic friendship--helps us decide which *kinds* of diversity matter. (A deeper sort of friendship is also at stake, stay tuned!) 4/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

One intellectual fruit of diversity (deeper than just hearing people voice conclusions you reject)... 3/9

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

Law schools should feel free to be ideological (openly), and that could actually bear intellectual fruit! But... 2/9 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Sherif Girgis @sherifgirgis.bsky.social · Jul 11

I gave a talk (in 2013) about when/why academics should & shouldn't care about intellectual diversity. More personal than my usual fare (& the most readable thing I've written--not saying that's a high bar)... 1/9
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Joyce Carol Oates on X: "most universities & colleges surely have faculty members who are contrarians? liberals & progressives are always quarreling with one another; "the left eats its own"; hiring conservatives per se will result in very lop-sided resumés especially in the sciences. really, research" / X

most universities & colleges surely have faculty members who are contrarians? liberals & progressives are always quarreling with one another; "the left eats its own"; hiring conservatives per se will result in very lop-sided resumés especially in the sciences. really, research

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