Meir Yarom

So I'll be going on the market this month, presenting this piece, recently accepted for publication in the Canadian J of Law & Jurisprudence. I'll post a version on ssrn soon; let me know if you'd like to read the penultimate draft.

Challenging the State’s Claim to Authority - Law and Philosophy The state’s authority involves elements of legitimacy and power. A rich body of literature addresses the former, de jure aspect of authority. This article explores the latter, de facto aspect, and its...

Our paper--Challenging the State’s Claim to Authority-- is officially published (open access) in Law & Philosophy!

@yaromeir.bsky.social and I explore the relationship between states' normative claims and their de-facto power

Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks, Alma! For you excellent comments on previous drafts, too.

Excited to see this one out soon, with the inimitable @tkenneth.bsky.social.
We argue for an orienting relation between de jure and de facto authority, stress the importance of political power, and show how attention to it reveals the dynamics of state authority.
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I reviewed Tom Adams's new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity on @jotwell.bsky.social : check it out! (And read Tom's paper, it is great). juris.jotwell.com/clarifying-l...