Jacob T. Levy

McGill University - Department of Political Science

Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory

Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5

Canada

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Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 213-226, Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012, pp. 487-502, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-05, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-105
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Willamette University College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, St. John’s University - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of Chicago - Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry M. Walborsky Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Associate Dean, Business Program, Stanford Law School, McGill University - Department of Political Science, Suffolk University Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Marquette University - Law School, Independent, Notre Dame Law School, Northeastern University - School of Law, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Berger & Montague, P .C. and Saint Louis University - School of Law
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apps, authority, Case Western Reserve, cheap talk, citation, dialectic, doctrinal, editing, empirics, equilibrium, falsity, Felix Frankfurter, Folk Theorem, footnotes, fraud, Harvard, Lexis, narcissism, peer review, practice, recursion, second-best, solipsism, truth, Westlaw

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There's No Such Thing as Ideal Theory

Social Philosophy and Policy 33(1-2) 312-333, October 2016
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2016
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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ideal theory, non-ideal theory, political philosophy, justice, full compliance, injustice

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Beyond Publius: Montesquieu, Liberal Republicanism, and the Small-Republic Thesis

History of Political Thought, 2006
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Jun 2005
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Montesquieu, Federalist Papers, Madison, Bnejamin Constant, Destutt de Tracy, federalism, republicanism, eighteenth century political thought, liberalism

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Toward a Non-Lockean Libertarianism

Forthcoming in Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz, eds,. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 May 2016
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Federalism, Liberalism, and the Separation of Loyalties

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Jun 2005
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Federalism, liberalism, Federalist Papers, Madison, Tocqueville, Acton, subsidiarity

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Contextualism, Constitutionalism, and Modus Vivendi Approaches

CULTURAL PLURALISM AND POLITICAL THEORY, Anthony Laden and David Owen, eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Nov 2005
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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multiculturalism, contexturalism, constitutionalism, modus vivendi, political theory, political philosophy, cultural diversity, cultural pluralism

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Self-Determination, Non-Domination, and Federalism

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Nov 2007
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Iris Marion Young, federalism, self-determination, non-domination, liberalism, republicanism

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Multicultural Manners

Revised version published in Michel Seymour, ed., The Plural States of Recognition, Palgrave 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 May 2009 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2013
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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multiculturalism, manners, civility, cities

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Montesquieu's Constitutional Legacies

MODERNITY IN QUESTION: MONTESQUIEU AND HIS LEGACY, Rebecca Kingston, ed., SUNY Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2008
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Montesquieu, constitutionalism, ancient constitution, social contract, 18th century, constitutional theory

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What it Means to be a Pluralist

Revised version published in Yitzhak Benbaji and Naomi Sussmann, eds., Reading Walzer, Routledge, 2013.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 May 2008 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2013
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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multiculturalism, nationalism, political theory, political philosophy, Michael Walzer

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Contra Politanism: Against the Teleology of Political Forms

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Aug 2012
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Indigenous Rights, Modern Political Concepts, and the State

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Three Perversities of Indian Law

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Indian law, jurisdiction, Montana v United States, Oliphant v Suquamish, Tiebout sorting

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The Right to Be Dignified, or the Dignity of Liberty

Arizona State Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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rights, human rights, liberalism, dignity, history of political thought, office

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National and Statist Responsibility

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2011
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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nationalism, global justice, state system, national responsibility

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Federalism and Subsidiarity

NOMOS LV, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, New York University Press, 2014 (James E. Fleming and Jacob T. Levy, eds.), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-41
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 25 Jul 2014
James E. Fleming and Jacob T. Levy
Boston University - School of Law and McGill University - Department of Political Science
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federalism, subsidiarity, dual federalism, foot voting, cities, remapping federalism

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'States of the Same Nature': Bounded Variation in Subfederal Constitutionalism

DUAL ENFORCEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS: NEW FRONTIERS OF STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, James A. Gardner and Jim Rossi, eds., Oxford University Press, 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2009
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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federalism, constitutional interpretation, constitutional theory

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Indians in Madison's Constitutional Order

JAMES MADISON AND THE FUTURE OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, p. 121, John Samples, ed., Cato Institute, June 2002
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Dec 2011
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

NBER Working Paper No. w21254
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2023
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science
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Not so Novus an Ordo: Constitutions without Social Contracts

Political Theory, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2008
Jacob T. Levy
McGill University - Department of Political Science

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constitutionalism, social contract, constitutional theory