Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule joins Aimee and Oliver to discuss and at times debate the merits of common-good constitutionalism (which he explains in greater detail in his forthcoming book from Polity Press), "pretty-good" constitutionalism, originalism, the administrative state, and much more. To listen to the full episode, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft

Suggested reading

Vermeule, "Beyond Originalism," https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/

"Local Wisdom," https://newrepublic.com/article/98607/henry-friendly-supreme-court-david-dorsen

"Rules, Commands and Principles in the Administrative State," https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3660026

"Conspiracy Theories" (with Cass Sunstein), https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/119/

Adrian's entire SSRN article catalog, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=231075

Ronald Dworkin, "The Moral Reading of the Constitution," https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/03/21/the-moral-reading-of-the-constitution/

Dworkin, "The Arduous Virtue of Fidelity," https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3328&context=flr

"The Code of Justinian ," https://web.archive.org/web/20130727022718/http://www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/history/justinianc.html