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Publication day! SO excited for my piece with @beau_baumann "Clarifying Judicial Aggrandizement" to finally be out in its final form with @PennLRev Online. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_revie…
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Allen Sumrall
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Allen Sumrall
@AllenSumrall
Postdoc @UCILaw | political & constitutional development, separation of powers, judicial politics | PhD @UTGovernment | JD @UTexasLaw
Albuquerque, NM Katılım Haziran 2009
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@beau_baumann Other than his failure to define legitimacy, which makes it much easier to put all styles of criticisms in the same basket and paper over important nuance, my favorite was his point that the Court consistently varies between liberal and conservative over time.
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💫New Paper Alert💫
CORRUPTION AND THE SUPREME COURT, forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
Abstract and link to paper below. It's short and punchy--as law review articles go, anyway. Comments very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Delighted that my article on “Strategic Judicial Empowerment” has finally been published in the latest edition of the American Journal of Comparative Law! Thanks to the many, many people who engaged on this in conversations, workshops, lectures etc.!
academic.oup.com/ajcl/article-a…
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But in other news, stay tuned for some work I have on this topic in the coming months.
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I so badly wish we could consistently distinguish between attacks on judicial legitimacy from attacks on an aggrandized judiciary. One can question the judiciary's place as the often-perceived final arbiter of political disputes without wishing people would ignore courts.
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I had a wonderful time presenting my paper on "The Limits of Formalism in the Separation of Powers," at @UVALaw faculty workshop on Friday. Thanks to @lsolum for the invitation and to the faculty for their incredible engagement with the project!
Link!:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Re-upping in light of today’s NYT story.
Richard M. Re@RichardMRe
I’m unconvinced by the many commentators arguing that the Trump immunity case was uncharacteristic of the Chief Justice. The decision is packed with ambiguities. That uncertainty can be frustrating, but it’s also a big source of compromise, flexibility, and gradualism. /1
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@RichardMRe . . . combined with his disinclination from diverting from the (perceived!) status quo of how constitutional politics works AND his belief that the court is above it all and ought to draw lines.
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@RichardMRe I think I follow. I *think* that falls into my definition of juridical aggrandizement, but I recognize how that seems similar even if it doesn’t. I agree that it’s characteristic of CJR. To me, the decision makes total sense as an example of Roberts’ views of the presidency . . .
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@RichardMRe Can you elaborate? (I realize it’s Twitter so not great for that, but I’m curious!)
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@AllenSumrall Yes (tho not necessarily defined in the way you do in your illuminating work).
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I was the discussant for Matt’s paper. It is very interesting, very well done, and spawns about a million more research questions. Somebody give Matt a job!
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I’m on my way to my first APSA! I’ll be serving as a discussant and presenting a chapter of my dissertation on judicial power. I’m not on the job market this year since I’m employed 2025-26, but I’ll likely be on the law teaching market next year!
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@joshchafetz I read his work in college but finally met him at @RichardMRe’s law and rhetoric conference in April. So sad.
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A huge loss for the academy.
Fred was both a brilliant scholar and (on the handful of occasions I got to interact with him) a kind and generous person.
Lawrence Solum@lsolum
Fred Schauer Has Passed, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20…: It is with a heavy heart that I report that Fred Schauer passed yesterday, Sunday, the first of September, 2024. I have known Fred for almost forty years. At the very beginning of my academic career, Fred provided comments on my very first law review--an act of great kindness and intellectual generosity. One of my most important scholarly projects, the development of virtue jurisprudence, originated with a paper I wrote that responded to a paper of Fred's. Throughout my career, I have consulted Fred's work again and again on multitudinous topics. He is one of the greats, a scholarly giant and a wonderful human being. He is irreplaceable and his loss is a heavy blow that will be felt far beyond the University of Virginia.
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I currently have bandwidth in the next few weeks to read and comment on some papers! If anyone was hoping for Beau’s feedback but will settle for my thoughts instead, let me know.
I’m trying to spend less time on here, but my email is always open!
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(1) Thrilled to say that my piece, "Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism," is heading to @YaleLJournal. This piece shows that--contrary to decades of SOP scholarship--Congress had its own equivalent to the DOJ's OLC for 50 years. (link below)
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@beau_baumann I mean, it’s one thing to say the SOP is problematically juricentric. It’s quite another to say juristocracy is a normatively bad development in constitutional politics worldwide.
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Finished my PhD. Immediately went to Paris to watch the Olympics.
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