The New Digest
Managing Editors- New Digest, Adrian Vermeule, Aníbal Sabater, Conor Casey, Jacob Neu, Jeremy Christiansen, Harsh ShahA forum for short essays on law, politics, political theology, postliberalism, and the common good. We offer reflections on the classical legal tradition and ius commune, and how their precepts and ideas can be adapted and translated.
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Pro Ratione Voluntas Praesidis: The President’s Will Stands In For Reason
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As Kenneth Pennington explains in his wonderful book on “The Prince and the Law,” jurists of the medieval and early modern ius commune debated at length the idea that the will of an authoritative lawmaker might itself...
When Textualism Runs Out: Salazar v. Paramount Global and the Video Privacy Protection Act
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The new Supreme Court term will soon be upon us, and on October 14, 2026, the Court will hear oral argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, which presents the question: “whether the phrase ‘goods or services from a vid...
Do Androids Dream Of The Common Good?
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The sprawling, swirling debates over the common good as a political and legal concept show no signs of abating; indeed if anything they have intensified and broken into the mainstream among commentators with very large...
August Break
As is our tradition, we will put The New Digest on hiatus for the last two weeks of August, rejoining you at the beginning of September — refreshed, tanned, and ready. We leave you with an (uncharacteristically stern) admonition from La Roc...
GRANTING OR DENYING INTERIM RELIEF?
The New Digest is delighted to present a guest essay by Isidro Munõz Acevedo. Mr. Acevedo is a Federal Administrative Judge from Mexico. He writes here in his personal capacity.
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“Utrum lex ordinetur semper ad bonum c...
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Authors
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Conor Casey, University of Surrey School of Law Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School Joel Feil, Attorney and former editor of Ius & Iustitium Rafael Arizaga, Attorney and former editor of Ius & Iustitium
Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School.
Aníbal Sabater is an attorney living in New York.
Associate Professor, University of Surrey School of Law
Patent attorney. May occasionally write about history, law, Catholicism, family, and the South.
Former Big Law partner. Associate Professor at Regent University Law School. Classical Legal Tradition and Natural Law. Still toiling away on the penal statutes of the Empire of Our Lady of Guadalupe. All opinions are my own.
I am a law graduate interested in constitutional law and theory. I earned my LL.B. and LL.M. at Cardiff University (U.K.), and am an incoming student at the University of Wisconsin Law School (U.S.)
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