Samuel Moyn

Yale University

Professor of Law

CT 06511

United States

http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn

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1.

Democratizing the Supreme Court

California Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 03 Nov 2020
Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
Harvard Law School and Yale University
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judicial review, jurisdiction stripping, court packing, supermajority rule, democracy

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Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 134
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2024
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Birth of Human Rights

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 May 2008
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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human rights, Jacques Maritain, Catholicism

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The Future of Human Rights

SUR - International Journal On Human Rights, v. 11, n. 20, Jun./Dec. 2014
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Jan 2015
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Human rights, Utopianism, Realism, Social movements

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Legal Theory among the Ruins

In Search of Contemporary Legal Thought, ed. Justin Desautels-Stein and Christopher Tomlins (CUP, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Aug 2016
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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legal theory, critical legal studies, Duncan Kennedy, structuralism, Marxism

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The Ghost of John Hart Ely

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 75, 2022, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2022
Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
Harvard Law School and Yale University
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judicial review, john hart ely, democracy

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From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law

Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2017
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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international criminal law

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Before - And Beyond - The Liberalism of Fear

Forthcoming, Between Utopianism and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith Shklar (S. Ashendem and A. Hess, eds., 2019)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Judith Shklar, Liberalism

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After Courts: Democratizing Statutory Law

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Apr 2024
Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
Harvard Law School and Yale University
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Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 2012
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Judith Shklar, Nuremberg, international criminal law, naturalism, positivism

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To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and Congressional Power after the Civil War

Constitutional Commentary 38 (forthcoming 2023)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2023
Samuel Moyn and Rephael Stern
Yale University and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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James Bradley Thayer, Rational Basis Review, Clear Error Rule, Judicial Deference, Democracy

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Human Rights in Heaven

Adam Etinson, ed., 2014, Human Rights: Moral or Political? (OUP)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2014 Last Revised: 17 May 2014
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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human rights, jurisprudence, legal theory

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The Second Bill of Rights: A Reconsideration

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 618
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2017
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2013
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Ireland, human dignity

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On Human Rights and Majority Politics: Felix Frankfurter's Democratic Theory

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2019
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Human Rights, Democracy, Majority Rule, Felix Frankfurter

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From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 30 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Christian Human Rights: A Debate

King's Law Journal, Vol 28.1 (2017), p.1-50, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2017-29
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 May 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2017
Samuel Moyn, Thomas Pink, John Finnis and Lorenzo Zucca
Yale University, King’s College London, University of Oxford and King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law
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18.

Sufficiency, Equality, and Human Rights

Malcolm Langford and Katharine Young, eds., Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2021
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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human rights, economic and social rights, inequality

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From One Crisis of Liberalism to Another

Social Research, forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Jan 2025
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Christianity and Human Rights

Rafael Domingo Osle and John Witte, Jr., eds., Christianity and Global Law: An Introduction (Routledge), Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2020
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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christianity, human rights, global law

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Animals and Slaves: A Legal Analogy between Domination and Reform

Anne Peters et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (Oxford University Press), Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 16 May 2024
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
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Slavery, Non-Human Animals, Aristotle, Roman Law, Jeremy Bentham, Peter Singer, Abolition, Emancipation

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Global Reconfigurations, Constitutional Obligations, and Everyday Life

2018 Volume of Yale's Global Constitutionalism Seminar, a Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights., Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 662
Number of pages: 302 Posted: 08 Nov 2018
Judith Resnik, Douglas NeJaime, Clare Ryan, Helen Keller, Harold Hongju Koh, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Muneer I. Ahmad, Lucas Guttentag, Cristina Rodriguez, Marta Cartabia, Amy Kapczynski, Samuel Moyn and Manuel Cepeda-Espinosa
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, University of Alabama School of Law, European Court of Human Rights, Yale Law School, Yale Law School, European University Institute, Yale Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale Law School, Constitutional Court of Italy, Yale University - Law School, Yale University and Constitutional Court of Colombia
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International; comparative; constitutional; human rights; family; marriage; parentage; surrogacy; sports; doping; free speech; competition; arbitration; corruption; refugee; asylum; immigration; detention; social and economic rights; political economy; health; medicine; drug pricing

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The Vietnam War and International Law

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Feb 2025
Kevin Jon Heller and Samuel Moyn
University of Copenhagen (Centre for Military Studies) and Yale University
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Substance, Scale, and Salience: The Recent Historiography of Human Rights

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 8, pp. 123-140, 2012
Posted: 31 Oct 2012
Samuel Moyn
Yale University

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