Paul B. Miller
@pbaronmiller.bsky.social
Robert and Marion Short Professor and Associate Dean, Notre Dame Law School. Posts mostly abt goings-on in private law/theory, legal phil, & @ndlaw
Papers, etc: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=364395
Papers, etc: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=364395
Thanks @maybell.bsky.social! Really looking fwd to this!
I'm so excited about this year's line up for our external faculty workshop series, y'all! We'll be welcoming Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, @richardalbert.bsky.social, @valenabeety.bsky.social 1/2
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thanks @maybell.bsky.social! Really looking fwd to this!
🎉 JUST POSTED 🎉 My latest, "What the Realists Got Right," now on SSRN. Grateful for feedback from many ppl, and especially @brianleiter.bsky.social
Also grateful to Thilo Kuntz (HHU) & Andrew Gold (UCI) for organizing & hosting the AJJ symposium on legal realism.
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Also grateful to Thilo Kuntz (HHU) & Andrew Gold (UCI) for organizing & hosting the AJJ symposium on legal realism.
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What the Realists Got Right
<p>For the past several decades, realists and formalists have been deeply at odds. They have, however, mostly been talking past one another, with each side trad
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September 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🎉 JUST POSTED 🎉 My latest, "What the Realists Got Right," now on SSRN. Grateful for feedback from many ppl, and especially @brianleiter.bsky.social
Also grateful to Thilo Kuntz (HHU) & Andrew Gold (UCI) for organizing & hosting the AJJ symposium on legal realism.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also grateful to Thilo Kuntz (HHU) & Andrew Gold (UCI) for organizing & hosting the AJJ symposium on legal realism.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Reposted by Paul B. Miller
Check out this new blog post from the editors of Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law, Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey
#LawSky #Philosophy #PrivateLaw
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#LawSky #Philosophy #PrivateLaw
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July 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Check out this new blog post from the editors of Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law, Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey
#LawSky #Philosophy #PrivateLaw
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#LawSky #Philosophy #PrivateLaw
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A rejuvenation & interrogation of the legal philosophy of Adolf Reinach, analyzed alongside contemporary private law theory
Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky
https://cup.org/4me5DYZ
Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky
https://cup.org/4me5DYZ
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A rejuvenation & interrogation of the legal philosophy of Adolf Reinach, analyzed alongside contemporary private law theory
Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky
https://cup.org/4me5DYZ
Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law ed. Marietta Auer (@mpilhlt.bsky.social), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, Henry E. Smith, & James Toomey #LawSky
https://cup.org/4me5DYZ
Delighted to be hosting colleagues @notredame.bsky.social as an element of our partnership with @telavivuni.bsky.social. And of course it has been great working with fellow co-organizers. Looking forward to a rich set of discussions over the coming days!
June 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Delighted to be hosting colleagues @notredame.bsky.social as an element of our partnership with @telavivuni.bsky.social. And of course it has been great working with fellow co-organizers. Looking forward to a rich set of discussions over the coming days!
I had a fantastic day yesterday with colleagues at Catholic U. Milan. Grateful to Giuseppe Portonera and Profs Nicolussi and Benatti for inviting me to speak about the New Private Law and methodology in private law theory. Grazie mille to my hosts for the enriching discussion!
February 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I had a fantastic day yesterday with colleagues at Catholic U. Milan. Grateful to Giuseppe Portonera and Profs Nicolussi and Benatti for inviting me to speak about the New Private Law and methodology in private law theory. Grazie mille to my hosts for the enriching discussion!
My colleague here @notredame.bsky.social, Jeff Pojanowski, does a wonderful service for legal phil by editing the Am J Jurisprudence w/ Richard Ekins @ox.ac.uk. Per Jeff, the AJJ has just published a lost essay by the great HLA Hart, which you may find here:
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Policies, Principles, and Adjudication: (c. 1977-82)
Abstract. A previously unpublished paper by H.L.A. Hart responding to some of the work of Ronald Dworkin and found among Dworkin’s papers. For commentary o
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December 5, 2024 at 11:25 AM
My colleague here @notredame.bsky.social, Jeff Pojanowski, does a wonderful service for legal phil by editing the Am J Jurisprudence w/ Richard Ekins @ox.ac.uk. Per Jeff, the AJJ has just published a lost essay by the great HLA Hart, which you may find here:
academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...
Thanks @lsolum.bsky.social for the “highly recommended” endorsement of my latest paper. Very grateful! And comments via email are welcomed!
Miller on Judging and Trust, https://buff.ly/3CFEJHS - Paul B. Miller (Notre Dame Law School) has posted Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office (Nikolas Kirby, ed., What is Good Government? (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)) on SSRN.
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November 26, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Thanks @lsolum.bsky.social for the “highly recommended” endorsement of my latest paper. Very grateful! And comments via email are welcomed!
🚨Just Posted🚨 my latest, "Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office," for What is Good Government? (workshopped @harvardkennedy.bsky.social). Examines qs of political morality (esp judicial role morality) + gen juris (formalism, realism, legality).
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Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office, in Nikolas Kirby, ed., <i>What is Good Government? </i>(Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
<p><span>This chapter examines the place of the judiciary in good government. It does so at a fraught moment for American democracy: one in which there are high
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November 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
🚨Just Posted🚨 my latest, "Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office," for What is Good Government? (workshopped @harvardkennedy.bsky.social). Examines qs of political morality (esp judicial role morality) + gen juris (formalism, realism, legality).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🚨Reminder - Call for Papers - Legal Personhood in Private Law🚨 (Details below). Join us in Rome in Nov '25! Travel costs fully covered. Papers due Jan 31 '25. Excited to be working w/ Eva Micheler and Chris Essert & grateful to ND, LSE and Toronto law schools for support. Pls repost, share.
November 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM
🚨Reminder - Call for Papers - Legal Personhood in Private Law🚨 (Details below). Join us in Rome in Nov '25! Travel costs fully covered. Papers due Jan 31 '25. Excited to be working w/ Eva Micheler and Chris Essert & grateful to ND, LSE and Toronto law schools for support. Pls repost, share.