Civilization and the Predators’ Ball
Biology, Philosophy, and the Institutional Architecture of the Evolved Human Animal
This interdisciplinary work of nonfiction is currently in submission to university presses. It reads law, philosophy, and evolutionary biology together to explain why human institutions take the shape they do.
- Complete manuscript
- Approximately 115,000 words
- Interdisciplinary nonfiction
- Comparable territory: institution-building, evolutionary biology, legal and political philosophy
Author background
George Skouras is a practicing New York attorney and independent legal scholar. His books include Constitutionalism and Democracy (Springer Nature, 2024) and Takings Law and the Supreme Court (Lang Publishing, 1998).