Constitutionalism and Democracy
The Supreme Court Power of Judicial Review v. We the People—an examination of judicial power measured against popular sovereignty.
Nonfiction Author & Legal Scholar
George Skouras
Constitutional Law · Jurisprudence · Philosophy · Social Sciences · Property Law
I write about constitutional power, property law, and the deeper biological and philosophical roots of the institutions we live under—asking not only what the law says, but why human beings built it that way and what it costs us.
Author of two legal books
Published by Springer Nature
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Books
Published and forthcoming
Interdisciplinary works for readers of constitutional law, democratic theory, property, history, and philosophy.
Takings Law and the Supreme Court
A study of judicial oversight of the regulatory state’s acquisition, use, and control of private property.
Civilization and the Predators’ Ball
Biology, philosophy, and the institutional architecture of the evolved human animal.
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Articles and essays
Published scholarship and accessible commentary on institutions, law, and democratic life.
About
Law, philosophy, history, and the social sciences
George Skouras is a legal and political scholar, researcher, and nonfiction author. His work sits at the intersection of law, philosophy, history, political economy, and the social sciences.
Current research includes a study of gated communities, a critique of liberal philosophy and jurisprudence, and work on the Fuller Supreme Court and the corporate state. His next book, currently in draft, traces the history and development of the social sciences.
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- Constitutional law, jurisprudence, political philosophy, political economy, evolutionary philosophy, American history
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- New York, USA
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