"We will ever strive for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many. We will unceasingly seek to quicken the sense of public duty. We will revere and obey the city’s laws.
The Center is pleased to invite paper submissions for the Third Annual Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Theory Conference, to be held March 19–20, 2027, at the University of Surrey and co-sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
Selected authors will receive dedicated commentary from a senior scholar in their field, and travel to England will be covered. Selected papers will also be considered for publication in Jurisprudence.
The submission deadline is October 30, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Final papers will be due by February 1, 2027.
For further information, please visit our website: law.georgetown.edu/constitut…
We encourage all interested scholars to submit their work and to share this opportunity with others in their networks who may wish to participate.
@shbarclay@RandyEBarnett@UniOfSurrey
Introducing the new $20 bill, with its advanced and dynamic security features. You’ll start seeing this $20 bill in circulation early next year!
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On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - September 3, 2013: Jean-Denis Fréchette begins his term as Parliamentary Budget Officer! Happy GIC-versary, JDF!!
🎙️ New podcast episode alert!
Can a law be made to disappear from the statute book without a trace? I’m chatting about the odd world of “Unenactment’ on the latest CIAJ podcast. Check it out here: ciaj-icaj.ca/en/podcasts/mag…
Lake Ontario anglers were always an odd bunch anyway. Except for the eastern lake--Quinte, Napanee, thousands islands, St. Lawrence entrance folk are cool.
This is just a hell of a narrative by @Tmgneff about war and loss, memory and forgiveness, and finding shared humanity in the most unlikely places. Worth reading and re-reading.
nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world…
Just got around to posting my forthcoming paper, "The Executive Order". It considers what executive orders can and cannot do and how their internal structure affects agency implementation. Plus empirical insights based on a study of all EOs from Reagan to early Trump II.
Out now: the republication of The Making of the Australian Constitution by J.A. La Nauze with a wonderful Foreword by Justice James Edelman and an insightful Introduction by Professor Anne Twomey.
federationpress.com.au/produ…
Thrilled that my paper "The Object of Interpretation" is out in the @GeorgetownLJ. The paper asks: What exactly is the object of legal interpretation? You can find it below and here: ssrn.com/abstract=5137931
The Object of Interpretation by @FranciscUrbina sets forth a pluralist account of objects of legal interpretation, according to which text, lawmaking choice, practice, and order are all possible objects.
So this is happening! Many thanks to the reviewers, and to those who have read my proposal and sample chapter draft, and heard me present ideas that will be going into this over the years. I'm looking forward to sharing more as the manuscript takes shape.