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A new paper by University of Virginia School of Law professor Charles Barzun '05 critiques a recent movement in legal theory that claims to find provide support for originalism in current law. While it's becoming popular for scholars to use current legal doctrine as the standard for settling

Just over a year after it was published, Professor Frederick Schauer’s “The Force of Law” (Harvard University Press, 2015), which argues for law’s power to coerce behavior as its distinctive feature, has spawned a raft of scholarly responses, lectures and symposia worldwide, and even a book dedicated to the topic. Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, recently paused to take stock of the attention the book has garnered.

A new book co-edited by University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan honors the scholarship of law and philosophy giant Michael S. Moore, while also expanding upon his transformative theories.

How juries, judges and other decision-makers think about evidence doesn't always match up with what the rules of evidence assume they will think. That's one focus of a new book co-authored by University of Virginia School of Law professor Barbara A. Spellman . In " The Psychological Foundations of