“Hale claimed that, as Christianity was part of English law, offences against God ‘are as punishable as to the King, or any common person.’ In sum, Hale modified common law defamation to present Taylor as having uttered insults against God that threatened temporal damage.”
Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2-3 (September 2019)
Administrative Constitutionalism and the History of the Administrative State
Editor’s Note: On October 19 and 20, 2018, University of Pennsylvania Law Review hosted a symposium on administrative constitutionalism. In the last ten years, a field of scholarship has developed that sheds new historical and theoretical light on interlocking issues of administration and constitutional law. Gathered under the moniker administrative constitutionalism, these scholars study the…