Organization Without Formal Priority?
Aristotle, Mechanism, and the Unity of Living Things—a study of how living unity can be material, dynamic, and distributed without a separate ruling form.
Legal and Political Scholar
George Skouras
Constitutional Law · Democratic Theory · Political Philosophy · Institutional History · Aristotle
I study how law and political institutions acquire authority, organize social power, and justify their governing arrangements. My work connects constitutionalism and jurisprudence with political economy, intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the social sciences.
Author of four legal books
Published by Springer Nature
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Full Member, Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston
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Interdisciplinary works spanning constitutional law, democratic theory, property, philosophy, political economy, and the social sciences. Browse George Skouras on Amazon →
On the Failure of the Congress and the Federal Trade Commission
A history of vitamins, supplements, the FDA, and the law, 1960–2026—examining health promises, scientific proof, and public responsibility.
Calling, Capitalism, and Class in the United States
From Reconstruction and the Gilded Age to the present—a study of how institutions turn unequal resources and opportunities into judgments of merit, responsibility, and failure.
American Constitutionalism and Dualist Democracy
A concise critique of Bruce Ackerman’s theory that “We the People” make higher law during rare constitutional moments and that the Supreme Court preserves their decisions.
Constitutionalism and Democracy
The Supreme Court Power of Judicial Review v. We the People—an examination of judicial power measured against popular sovereignty.
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Takings Law and the Supreme Court
A study of judicial oversight of the regulatory state’s acquisition, use, and control of private property.
The Journal Jurisprudence, Vol. 9: Legal Histories
Featuring George Skouras’s article, “On the Formation of the American Corporate State: The Fuller Supreme Court, 1888–1910,” beginning on page 37.
Civilization and the Predatory Animal
Biology, philosophy, and the institutional architecture of the evolved human animal.
The Curve and the Street
Mathematics, developmental dynamics, and reflexivity in the social sciences.
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Published scholarship · 2020
Modernity, the Commons, and Capitalism
British Journal of American Legal Studies 9, no. 2, pages 367–386. An examination of capitalist modernity, common resources, and the institutions that shape their use.
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Organization Without Formal Priority? Mechanistic Materialism in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z–HRead paper →
From Telephone Unbundling to Digital Bottlenecks: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Antitrust Enforcement, and a Function-Specific Access Regime
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Private Government Behind the Gates: Homeowners’ Associations, Institutional Lock-In, and the Democratic Commons
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On the Formation of the American Corporate State: The Fuller Supreme Court, 1888–1910
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Law, philosophy, history, and the social sciences
George Skouras is an independent legal and political scholar, practicing New York attorney, and nonfiction author. His research joins constitutional law and jurisprudence with political theory, intellectual history, political economy, and institutional analysis.
He holds advanced degrees from New York University, Rutgers Law School, and the New School for Social Research. His books include Constitutionalism and Democracy (Springer Nature, 2024) and Takings Law and the Supreme Court (Peter Lang, 1998). Current philosophical research examines Aristotle’s account of matter, form, organization, and substantial unity, alongside broader work on democracy, capitalism, private government, and the biological foundations of institutional life.
Across these projects, Hellenic philosophy is treated as a living intellectual resource for contemporary questions concerning law, civic order, human nature, and democratic institutions.
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- Constitutional law, jurisprudence, political philosophy, political economy, social-science modeling, statistics, reflexivity, evolutionary philosophy, American history
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- New York, USA
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New York University
M.A. in Political Science, with continuing access to NYU library and research facilities.
Rutgers Law School
J.D., with continuing access to Rutgers library and research facilities.
The Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston
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