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I am a Professor of Philosophy<\/a> at the University of Richmond<\/a>, and also the founding coordinator of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL<\/a>).\u00a0 I hope you find the scholarship and teaching materials I have posted here useful, and I welcome your questions and comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

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New article on the Nature of (International) Law<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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What gives law life?\u00a0 What animates it, and in so doing warrants the claim that law contributes to the production of social order in a particular community?\u00a0 In an article just published in the Hague Yearbook of International Law<\/em>, I argue that law lives, or exists, only in those societies where law rules, and law rules only when the exercise of political power is conducted under the supervision of lawyers, agents for whom realizing the rule of law is a calling or vocation.\u00a0 Even more\u00a0 surprisingly, I contend that the most prominent proponent of this account of law in the field of international law and legal theory is Martti Koskenniemi.<\/p>\n

For a link to the article, please click on the Scholarship tab above.\u00a0 Comments welcome!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\t\n\t\t\n

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New article on legality beyond the state<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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I’m pleased to share that “Legality Beyond the State,” my contribution to a symposium on transnational legal and political theory, has just been published in the Buffalo Law Review. To read an abstract or download the article (published Open Access), please click on the ‘Scholarship’ link above. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\t\n\t\t\n

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Two new articles on the international rule of law<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Just out this week – two new articles in which I argue for a sceptical take on the international rule of law. “A New Philosophy for International Legal Skepticism,” has been published in International Theory<\/em>, and “Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders” appears in the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Law<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Having trouble sleeping?\u00a0 Check out this video of my presentation on state consent and the legitimacy of international law<\/a> at the College de France!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\t\n\t\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond, and also the founding coordinator of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL).\u00a0 I hope you find the scholarship and teaching materials I have posted here useful, and I welcome your questions and comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lefkowitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}