@LawatSurrey. Editor, @theNewDigest. Senior Fellow @policy_exchange
London, United Kingdom
Joined August 2018
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Delighted to say I’ll be writing a monograph for Hart’s Studies in Constitutional Law series.
The title is “Government Lawyers in the United Kingdom: Between and Politics”.
It will look and evaluate the influence of Gov lawyers on law and policymaking
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While looking for something else last night, found these , er, convivial pictures of Christopher and me, from 2009, before he fell ill. I thought they were a bit counter-cultural.
New from me at @thenewdigest, a short study of
he Political Theology of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, which I was inspired to write after seeing the great David Suchet play Saint Thomas Becket in my local theatre.
I read it as a drama animated with a profoundly Catholic understanding of power and relationship between Church and State.
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This is a nice write-up by Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, reporting on the conferral of the Pius XI award, which I received recently from the Society of Catholic Social Scientists.
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Extremely excited to share this guest essay by Judge O’Connor.
Only at the New Digest can you expect read essays on law, politics, and theology from Hapsburg Archdukes and US Federal judges. A substack for all seasons!
Today @thenewdigest: the editors are delighted to publish today a guest essay by Chief Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas, on reason as the life and soul of the law. Judge O’Connor explains the “debt that the American legal tradition owes to the Catholic Christian tradition.”
Enjoy!
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Friends, my annual reminder: Be wary. Tonight is All Hallows’ Eve — the one night in the year when, by a mysterious privilege, doomed spirits, nosferatu, shape-shifters, hags, ghouls, neoconservatives (but I repeat myself), legal positivists, and even journalists are allowed to prowl the world, seeking the ruin of souls.
Delighted to get the hard copy of @thelampmagazine and particularly thrilled to have a piece in the Brass Rubbings section, about the rise and fall of Chertsey Abbey, in Surrey
Thanks my friend!
A delight to come home to one the finest hard-copy publications around, @thelampmagazine , even more so when it features a lovely piece by my dear friend @Caseyco231
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An important piece by @MLuipen in @thenewdigest, a publication run by @Caseyco231 and @Vermeullarmine.
The author argues that the weakening of the liberal political consensus may paradoxically strengthen liberal legal doctrines. As public support declines, legal institutions increasingly become instruments for preserving ideological dominance.
The article also discusses The Great Reset, the EU reform proposal published by MCC and Ordo Iuris in 2025, exploring two possible paths: fundamental EU reform or a new framework for cooperation among sovereign European nations.
The key takeaway: electoral victories alone are not enough. Long-term intellectual and institutional work, especially in legal theory and constitutional interpretation, is essential.
Today @thenewdigest: we are delighted to have a guest essay from @MLuipen, of the Pascal Institute and St. John’s, on the increasingly important topic of “liberal authoritarianism.”
Enjoy!
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Today @thenewdigest: we are delighted to have a guest essay from @MLuipen, of the Pascal Institute and St. John’s, on the increasingly important topic of “liberal authoritarianism.”
Enjoy!
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"This notion, of an actually existing unconnected state of nature, is too wild to be seriously admitted."
--William Blackstone
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Today @thenewdigest: we are delighted to publish a fascinating essay by @MaxSaintH on the legal dimensions of the prosecution and persecution of Christians during the Roman Empire.
Enjoy!
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This morning @thenewdigest presents a post by the Managing Editors regarding Justice Alito's recent comments on "Common Sense" Originalism. Enjoy. Link below!
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My letter in this week’s @Spectator, especially for fanboys of my late brother.
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We have a cover! 😍 So excited about this book w/ my collaborator @edwardmwillis. Should be out in 2027 w/@hartpublishing.
Authors include: Dean Knight, Erin Delaney, Gabrielle Appleby, Linda Colley, Mark Walters, Mike Gordon, Pravar Petkar, Nick Kilford, and Janet McLean.
I’m delighted to say I’ve got a short piece out in @thelampmagazine about the rise and fall of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, England.
I am hoping this is a little less dry as dust than my usual legal writings.
In case of interest:
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New pubs by SCLP fellows 📖
👉 Conor Casey on the ECHR, interpretation, and natural law
👉 Kenneth Ehrenberg on what follows from law's social ontology
More here: linkedin.com/posts/surrey-ce…
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Today @thenewdigest: recently, there have been several attempts to reconcile liberalism with Catholic political theology by means of arguments drawn from the School of Salamanca. In this essay, Professor Arturo Salazar Santander critiques those efforts for misunderstanding the theological and anthropological views of the Salamanca scholastics.
Enjoy!
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Substantive canons are all the rage.@joeljohnson13 says they are "legality" canons. @charlesfcapps says they aren't real.
For a classical defense of substantive canons, read my forthcoming article in the @SMULawReview. Long live the substantive canons!
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