Legal doctrine is generally thought to contribute to legal decision-making only to the extent it determines substantive results. Yet in many cases, the available authorities are indeterminate. I ...

Revisiting the reasoning in the 31st December Case is therefore not an exercise in historical nostalgia or political advocacy. It is an invitation to reflect on constitutional coherence, and on how ...

In law, doctrine is the coin of the realm. Yet judges, lawyers, and law students often take the very idea of doctrine for granted, without asking how doctrine works—what it means, does, or might be ...

I’ve written several posts about biases and motivated reasoning. Although both can be adaptive for survival and generally offer more upsides than downsides to decision-making, both can also lead to ...

Experiential legal education is an active method of teaching that integrates theory and practice by combining academic inquiry with actual experience. SLU LAW offers multiple in-house clinics, ...

The Third Appellate District affirmed in part and reversed in part a judgment. The court held that the ministerial exception barred a ministerial employee's tort claims against her former employer, ...

This article argues that Jürgen Habermas's view of religion as anathema to rational critical discourse reflects his misunderstanding that religion comprises a monolithic and immutable body of dogma ...