Perry Dane (@perrydane) profile picture

Professor of Law, scholar of religion and law and other fields, committed Jew, husband and father. https://nitter.gq/t.co/TZKD9leH7S

Camden, NJ
Joined October 2009
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On 303 Creative, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Justice Robert Jackson, and more. Feel free to download. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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#chq2023 Can the themes you emphasize speak to folks whose politics are otherwise very different from yiurs?
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I was delighted to give the keynote address last week at the Law Day celebration of the Middlesex County Vicinage of the New Jersey Superior Court. The title of the talk was “Polarization, Weaponization, and the Rule of Law.” facebook.com/perry.dane/post…
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This piece by Perry Dane is interesting. I do not agree with everything in it, but the comparison of the problem of identifying present public meaning to the problem of prediction in (some variants of) legal realism is suggestive. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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My RH D'var arguing that the process of teshuva is not only about abandoning our obvious sins. There are also aspects of our lives that, in their own day, were right and praiseworthy, but which, at the appointed time, must change. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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As the Supreme Court begins its new Term, I thought I'd link again to my forthcoming article (which still requires more editing) critiquing the theory of original public meaning. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Today, the Court definitively buried the Establishment Clause endorsement test. I have long been a critic of the endorsement test. But I also warned that the alternative might be worse. Given this Court's trajectory, that might turn out to be true. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Rutgers University: Thank You President Holloway for Signing the Memorandum of Understanding - Sign the Petition! chng.it/2tFpG7KK via @Change
My essay on David VanDrunen's account of political theology is available is now available in the new issue of @JLRatEmory. The issue is #freetoread until Nov. 15, 2021 at tinyurl.com/Dane-on-VanDrune…. @CUP_Law @RutgersLaw
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A meditation on and reconsideration of Robert Cover's vision of legal pluralism in the light of our current state of polarization and national brokenness. @RutgersLaw @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
My review of a book that, I argue, sings "an evocative, lyrical, melody, but just ever so slightly off key." cup.org/3osLFyY
Posting again as we get closer to Shabbat: A D'var Torah on Parshat Re'eh. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
This coming Shabbat's Parsha is Re'eh. I hunted up and posted a D'var Torah that I delivered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Its theme is cities. I've added a short coda on our current crisis. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
My latest Drash: “Lest the Wild Beasts Grow Too Numerous”: A D’var Torah on Parshat Eikev @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…