George Duke
@georgeduke21.bsky.social
Constitutional theory, legal theory, sociology of law, history of political and legal thought. A/Prof at Deakin Law School
Only 1/3 through and already looking worse for wear
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Only 1/3 through and already looking worse for wear
Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not.
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
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Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not.
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
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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!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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.
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We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
Suzhou Gate to East from below
January 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Suzhou Gate to East from below
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A new volume of Comparative Constitutional Studies is out. Honouring @cherylas1.bsky.social, with contributions on the themes that dominated her trailblazing career: global constitutionalism, federalism, constitution making and rule of law. 🌟Open access for the next three weeks. 🌟
January 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A new volume of Comparative Constitutional Studies is out. Honouring @cherylas1.bsky.social, with contributions on the themes that dominated her trailblazing career: global constitutionalism, federalism, constitution making and rule of law. 🌟Open access for the next three weeks. 🌟
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My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine.
Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine.
Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios
criticallegalthinking.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Parmagianino (1523)
January 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Parmagianino (1523)
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Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!
This article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems.
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems - Volume 13 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!
This article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems.
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems - Volume 13 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
This article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems.
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Francis Street, Salford https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/francis-street-salford-1957
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Francis Street, Salford https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/francis-street-salford-1957
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1/ Ming-Sung Kuo's important article on the objects & corresponding methods of comparative constitutional studies, forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and available on SSRN, can be read as an effort to systematize pluralist & eclectic methods in wide use. I remain skeptical about ...
December 15, 2024 at 9:59 PM
1/ Ming-Sung Kuo's important article on the objects & corresponding methods of comparative constitutional studies, forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and available on SSRN, can be read as an effort to systematize pluralist & eclectic methods in wide use. I remain skeptical about ...
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Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
December 8, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
December 8, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).
Published version of my critique of appeals to "constitutional values" now available online first in Federal Law Review.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 30, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Published version of my critique of appeals to "constitutional values" now available online first in Federal Law Review.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review)
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ideological Constitutionalism
A renewed interest in the concept of ideology is evident in recent constitutional theory. Ideology has featured prominently not only in restatements of traditional Marxist positions and attempted ret....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM
New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review)
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Luhmann on “Frankfurter Stil”
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Luhmann on “Frankfurter Stil”
New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review)
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ideological Constitutionalism
A renewed interest in the concept of ideology is evident in recent constitutional theory. Ideology has featured prominently not only in restatements of traditional Marxist positions and attempted ret....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM
New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review)
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
French know how to do a good book cover
November 12, 2024 at 10:38 AM
French know how to do a good book cover
Not an easy one to track down. Gotta love Abe Books
November 8, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Not an easy one to track down. Gotta love Abe Books
My recent paper on Australian constitutional values is now available on SSRN (to appear soon in the Federal Law Review).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 30, 2024 at 7:01 AM
My recent paper on Australian constitutional values is now available on SSRN (to appear soon in the Federal Law Review).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
