This Issue features Essays based on the presentations given by our guest speakers at Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy’s Volume 40 annual Symposium, along with Articles by contributing authors, and Notes by junior editors from the Volume 40 Editorial Board. The title, Serving Two Masters, reflects how each of these pieces engages with issues of legitimacy and claims to authority in conflict—between church and state, between branches of government, and between the past and present.
Speaker Essays
The Constitutional Significance of the First American Pope and the Promise of Listening in an Era of Mutual Suspicion
Derek A. Webb
Justice From the Courts: A Moral Philosophical Approach to Ending Partisan Application of the Law in The United States
Joseph A. Darrow
Attempted Administrative Entrenchment in Trump’s Second Term
Zachary S. Price
Articles
Asymmetric Divestment: The Discord Between Jurisdiction-Stripping and Non-Article III Adjudication
Hari M. Asuri
Supermajority in Supreme Courts: An Old Promise or a New Threat?
Yuval Erez
Notes
A Visible Society: The Imagined Dichotomy In Church Autonomy Doctrine
Thomas Schacht
In the Seventh Year of the Two Weeks: Due Process in the COVID Crisis Revisited
John Blonigen
By the Fiat of Experts: Bitcoin, Monetary Sovereignty, and Talmudic Legitimacy
Dovid Rimmer