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law professor @NorthwesternLaw: technology, constitutional and international law theorist, blogger at Law and Liberty, Federalist Society Paul Bator awardee
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The Rise and Fall of the Oxbridge Dons

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By Colin Kidd, Max Skjönsberg, John O. McGinnis
| Law & Liberty Verified
Adam Smith spent some of his most unhappy years as a student at Balliol College, Oxford. “It will be his own fault if anyone should endanger his health at Oxford by excessive study, our only business here being to go to prayer twice a day, and to lecture twice a week,” a studious seventeen-year-old Smith wrote to a correspondent back home in Scotland in 1740.
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An Irreverent Defense of the Classics

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By Mary Beard, Matthew Reising, John O. McGinnis
| Law & Liberty Verified
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville outlined the utility of studying the ancients for certain individuals living under a modern democracy. The ancients, he explained, are not “irreproachable,” but their writings do “have special qualities that can serve marvelously to counterbalance our particular defects.
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A New Map of the Constitution

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By Ilan Wurman, John O. McGinnis, Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug
| Law & Liberty Verified
When I went to law school four decades ago, Laurence Tribe’s treatise American Constitutional Law was the most widely used primer on the subject. Serious students, whether professors or students, relied on it to understand the terrain. It was comprehensive, learned, and very much a product of its time.
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