Jordan Perkins
On Jurisprudential Deflationism
I confess that, over the past few years, I have lost almost all interest in esoteric jurisprudential debates. My position, which I...
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Jordan Perkins
- Feb 9, 2022
- 7 min
Was Dworkin a Legal Positivist?
In the world of live theories in contemporary jurisprudence, Dworkinian interpretivism is often presented as the primary threat to legal...
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Jordan Perkins
- Aug 5, 2020
- 8 min
On Conservatism
[I have occasionally been asked to provide a copy of a Twitter thread I wrote roughly a year and a half ago attempting to provide a...
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Jordan Perkins
- Jul 15, 2020
- 13 min
Schumpeter on Marx and Tautological Social Scientific Explanation
The first part of Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is devoted to a critical engagement with the ideas of Karl...
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Jordan Perkins
- Jul 5, 2020
- 5 min
On Legal and Social Norms, Pt. II
In a prior essay, I wrote (perhaps too circuitously) about the connection between legal and social norms. This is intended to be a brief...
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Jordan Perkins
- May 12, 2020
- 8 min
On the Article VI Oath
‘Constitution,’ like ‘being,’ is said in many ways. I take this to be the key point for understanding a recent exchange between Adrian...
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Jordan Perkins
- Apr 17, 2020
- 9 min
On Legal and Social Norms
One of the supposed virtues of legal positivism, tracing back a half-century into the foundational debates of Anglophone analytical...
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Jordan Perkins
- Apr 2, 2020
- 7 min
On the Necessity of a ‘Common Good’: Or, Against Originalism
By now, most people interested in the intersection of politics and academic law have encountered Adrian Vermeule’s recent piece in The...
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