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A great new note by Adrian Vermeule for The New Digest touching on Justice Scalia, judicial prudence, and the dangers of intemperate orders from district judges ⬇️ “judicial review of executive and administrative action is a power to be exercised with patience, prudence,

Today from me The New Digest: a resonant passage from Justice Scalia on the attitude proper to judges reviewing executive and administrative action. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

Today The New Digest we are pleased to have a guest post from Dr. Michaël Bauwens, of the University of Antwerp, who sketches a Marian account of political theology. Enjoy! substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

We are delighted to announce that the New Digest and Ius & Iustitium Ius & Iustitium will be merging under one editorial banner. We are confident this move will help advance our shared aim to explain, translate and adapt the principles of the classical law for a new world, one

Today The New Digest we have a superbly learned and thought provoking piece from our own Adrian Vermeule on the Marian foundations of the rule of law in Western Legal thought. It is a must read

Now that The New Digest has merged with Ius & Iustitium, we plan to share content from the latter’s archives from time to time. Up today: an outstanding essay by Rafael de Arizaga, one of my personal favorites. Hope you enjoy! substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

221 years ago today, March 21 1804, the French civil code (Code Napoléon) was promulgated. We republish today The New Digest an excellent reflection on the Code and its relationship to the classical law, by Professor Sérafin. Enjoy! substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

Today from me at The New Digest is a lightly edited version of remarks I gave at the inaugural Legal Philosophy & Constitutional Theory Junior Scholars Conference at Georgetown Law Constitution Center I was invited to provide commentary on a fascinating paper titled “Some

Today The New Digest: a guest post offers a sharp critique of “corpus linguistics.” Enjoy! substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

From me The New Digest : a response to a recent open letter to students, signed by 92 members of the Harvard Law faculty. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

Must read letter The New Digest from my friend and comrade Adrian Vermeule responding to an open letter by 92 members of the HLS faculty ⬇️

Today The New Digest: an essay by Dr. Gabriela García Escobar, professor of public international law at Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara, on Erika Bachiochi’s recent book “The Rights of Women.” Enjoy! substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/thene…

Today The New Digest, we are most pleased to have a guest post from Arturo Salazar, who explains the origins and interpretation of the provision in the Constitution of Chile that “The State is at the service of the human person, and its purpose is to promote the common good.”

Over at The New Digest we have our own Asanga Welikala writing about common good provisions in written Constitutions, and what those textual references reveal ⬇️

Patrick G Adrian Vermeule The New Digest Because in the classical understanding, the concept of ‘constitution’ is broader and deeper than the positive law of the constitution (of which a written Constitution is itself only one, albeit most important, source) and includes an array of non-legal rules and practices.

Delighted to announce that my colleague Professor Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco and myself have secured funding to establish a Classical Natural Law research hub at the Surrey School of Law Surrey Law School Our first project will be to explore the Christian democratic, natural law, and

Put up revised version of my essay written for volume on Constitutional Change. I was asked to write an account of a classical natural law/common good constitutionalist approach to rules of constitutional amendment and change. Link to SSRN ⬇️

Today from me The New Digest: The rule of law is not the same as the rule of courts. The link is in the next post down. Hope you enjoy!

90 years ago, on May 27, 1935, the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions that struck directly at the (First) New Deal, including a decision that blessed the so-called “independent agencies” and a decision on the so-called “nondelegation doctrine.” Today The New Digest, an

I’m delighted to announce that this September I will take up the post of Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Keble College. I couldn’t be more excited to be joining this incredible community of scholars.