Rafi Reznik

12 funded PhDs in "Aesthetics of Democracy" at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Perfect for anyone who has absorbed my book 'The Landscape of Utopia' ;) aesthetics-of-democracy.de?lang=en

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Issue 35 | The Point Magazine The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 35.

Issue 35—which is dedicated entirely to the question of violence—is coming soon. Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:

Murray on Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice /
lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/07/murr...

This might be an area where Trump echoes Netanyahu and not just the other way around. One of Netanyahu's defining political moments was when he said in the 1990s that the Israeli left has forgotten what it means to be Jews.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

If law is an artefact, can coercion be considered as something necessary for its existence and functioning?

Here, I examine why law may necessarily depend on coercion both to exist and to fulfil its functions - even in law-abiding & puzzled societies.

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link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Mandate Palestine: Trademark and Patent Registries (1922-1948) Mandate Palestine: Trademark and Patent Registries (1922-1948)

ענייני חולין:
הימים פה טרופים ומטורפים, ואין פה עיתוי טוב לכלום.
מרשם הפטנטים המנדטורי המשוחזר באוויר, כאן:
en-law.tau.ac.il/MandatePales...

YouTube video by The Philosopher "A Social History of Analytic Philosophy": Christoph Schuringa in conversation with Tzuchien Tho

ICYMI: "A Social History of Analytic Philosophy"

Christoph Schuringa, with Tzuchien Tho, discusses analytic philosophers' political activism, how the social context influenced them, and how analytic philosophy de-radicalises other discourses.
#Philosophy #philhist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xKz...

🥁‘A Theory of Annexation’, out in the Oxford J of Legal Studies, offers a new theory of annexation.
Ronit Levine-Schnur, Yael Berda & I argue that to uphold the prohibition of aggression, annexation must be identified by reference to actions, not declarations.
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

Liss on International Criminal Law and Complementarity, buff.ly/1pskNRk - Ryan Liss (Western University - Faculty of Law) has posted Complementarity and the Normative Structure of International Criminal Law (65 Virginia Journal of International Law 291 (2025)) on SSRN.

Jia on Interpreting Authoritarian Law, buff.ly/EILWqK8 - Mark Jia (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Interpreting Authoritarian Law (The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism, edited by Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman, and Mark Tushnet (forthcoming)) on SSRN.

109 | Should We Abolish Prisons? w/ Dr. Tommie Shelby | What's Left of Philosophy Get more from What's Left of Philosophy on Patreon

we are back with a new episode!! the crew interviews Tommie Shelby on prison abolitionism, the function of liberal institutions, and the nature of transformative political projects! get it now www.patreon.com/posts/109-sh...

Dr. Ieva Jusionyte on Beyond Borders: Gun Culture & Gun Violence | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Dr. Ieva Jusionyte, the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University, joins us in this episode of Guns Unpacked. We discuss her new…

Beyond Borders: Gun Culture & Gun Violence — On the Guns Unpacked #podcast, @ievajusionyte.bsky.social discusses the cultural and historical context of guns in Mexico, the connections between gun politics and immigration, & how the availability of US guns shapes migration.

The Paradox of Punishing for a Democratic Future Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court grappled with an issue of first impression in this country, but one familiar to other jurisdictions around the world—that is, w

Congrats to @rlopez.bsky.social‬ on her new piece w/ @geoffdancy.bsky.social: “The Paradox of Punishing for a Democratic Future”
Using empirical evidence, the article sheds light on how criminally charging a head of state may affect the democracy which prosecutes them. buff.ly/PRAWYz2 #CiteWomen

KCL Law is hiring a YTL Early Career Research Fellow! 📚⚖️

It's a 1-year, research-only position at the YTL Centre for Philosophy, Politics, & Law. If you work in legal and/or political philosophy, consider applying!

📅Deadline: March 30

Details here: shorturl.at/fH0Zy.

I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done.

There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with:

plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...

English: www.regthink.org/en/the-prese...

Honored to be organizing this Melville Society panel on two of my favorite subjects at next year's MLA in Toronto. Email or DM me with questions/proposals.
mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

I just posted a draft article titled "Miller's Double Crossing," which tells the true story of United States v. Miller (1939) as recounted by Jack Miller's grand-daughter. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Extremely extremely excited about this paper which synthesizes the conversations many fields have been having around the problems and shortcomings of “consent”

By two greats: David Pozen and Daryl Levinson

Well worth a download:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're here!

Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens Can you avoid any law you do not consent to? Can you avoid paying taxes by declaring yourself sovereign? Do courts operate under admiralty or maritime law? No.…

The books brings together the expertise of judges, criminologists, anthropologists, historians, legal philosophers and lawyers from all around the world to reflect upon to this global phenomenon:

Details here:

www.bloomsbury.com/au/pseudolaw...

The collection on 'Rights in Criminal Law' edited by @phirsch.bsky.social and Elias Moser is now out and free to download at www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do.... In my contribution, Ch 7, I argue that victims' rights should make no difference to whether someone can plead a justification.

עיון – כתב עת לפילוסופיה | אחריות אישית בדיקטטורה (1964) אחריות אישית בדיקטטורה (1964), מאמר מאת חנה ארנדט

Coincidentally Arendt's essay was translated into Hebrew a few months ago www.iyyun.co.il/paper/khryvt...

אין ארץ אחרת | שיחה מקומית

In Israel/Palestine the film is available to stream for free: mekomit.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Thanks! Yes definitely re pacifism. I guess this was overstated; I meant it as a lamentation on the marginality/rejection of pacifist thought in contemporary discourse of all ideological orientations. I think Dorlin's approach is representative of the intellectual Left today.

HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb.

Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...

Why Did Luigi Mangione Invoke Self-Defense? | Duke Center for Firearms Law

firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/01/why-...
My take on Luigi Mangione: "encapsulates this curious convergence between a mass shooter persona and a revolutionary discourse. This convergence finds a shared anchor in the logic of self-defense, exercised against a person chosen for purely symbolic reasons..."