Title

Empire

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

8-26-2009

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; International Law & Trade eJournals; Antitrust & Regulated Industries eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Intellectual Property Law eJournals

Abstract

This essay explores the concept of empire and the problems with delineating its scope and contours As a way of examining these problems it examines the relationship between the concept of empire and the concept of law through different jurisprudential views of the latter This essay serves as an introduction to the Meador Lectures on Empire which were presented at the University of Alabama School of Law during 200708 The lectures were given by Daniel Hulsebosch José Alvarez Herbert Hovenkamp and Michele Goodwin

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