Ethan J Leib
Biographic Data
| ID | 1440607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan J Leib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Leib |
| SIGNATURE | LEIB E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0131-6045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fiduciary Parenting of Transgender Youth
This article aims to evaluate whether parents of minors who identify as transgender have moral duties to help their children achieve social or medical transition and whether they have moral permission to take a more oppositional posture and, if so, under what conditions. Very child-centred theories of parenting might recommend that children should get to make their own decisions without parental gatekeeping and very parent-centred theories of par…
Contract as Vow or Oath
Many scholars and judges attempt to harmonize legal practices of contracting with the social practice of promising in ordinary life. This article explores an alternative genealogy of contract in traditional social practices that track many of contract's core norms: taking vows and oaths. Without denying that promissory morality infiltrates modern contract, contract-as-vow-or-oath can expose by way of a supplementary account why some contract rule…
Three Modalities of (Originalist) Fiduciary Constitutionalism
There is an ongoing body of scholarship in contemporary constitutional theory and legal history that can be labeled ‘fiduciary constitutionalism’. Some have wanted to strangle this work in its cradle, offering an argument pitched ‘against fiduciary constitutionalism’, full stop. But because there are enough different modalities of fiduciary constitutionalism—and particularly originalist varieties of it at the center of recent critiques—it is wort…
Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s "Open Democracy"
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms of direct democracy, to internet crowdsourcing, to representation through random selection to a citizens’ assembly: “representing and being represented in turn” (p. xvii). Her aim: to replace citizen consent with citizen power. The critics advance both praise and misgivin…
The core of fiduciary political theory
“Fiduciary political theory” applies norms developed within fiduciary law to public officials and political institutions. Fiduciary political theorists contend that these fiduciary norms describe or, at least, offer insights into the political authority of states and other major questions of political morality. However, many fiduciary political theorists disagree about methodology—specifically, how directly to apply fiduciary norms to the realm o…
Fiduciary Representation and Deliberative Engagement with Children
Recent work on “fiduciary representation” has opened up a useful avenue for understanding how state leaders should navigate their representative roles in democratic political systems and for specifying the ethical duties that come with political office. Political theorists throughout the ages have generally thought of the democratic representative as either a “delegate” of the constituent-principal on the one hand, or as a “trustee” for the const…
Representation in America
Research Article| January 01 2007 Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and Deliberative Engagement Ethan J. Leib; Ethan J. Leib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David L. Ponet David L. Ponet Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711244 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sear…
Hearing the Other Side
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy. By Diana C. Mutz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 184p. $60.00 cloth, $20.99 paper.Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life. By Andrew J. Perrin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 208p. $45.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.Deliberative democracy is no longer reserved for the theorists. Empiricists now want a part of the action. With their various to…
The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China
This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese
The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy
The Democratic Century
Journal Article The Democratic Century Get access The Democratic Century by Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M. Lakin. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 480 pp. $34.95. Ethan J. Leib Ethan J. Leib University of California, Hastings College of the Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.200…
Rorty's New School of American Pride
This paper is an historical study of Richard Rorty's political philosophy, demonstrating how his 'mature' thoughts about patriotism and nationalism (evidenced in Achieving Our Country) advance the complexity and nuance of his political theory. By showing where Rorty diverges from his earlier insistence upon the severe separation of the public and private, the paper hopes to expose his newfound appreciation of the private and cultural spheres and …
Fiduciary Representation and Deliberative Engagement with Children
Recent work on “fiduciary representation” has opened up a useful avenue for understanding how state leaders should navigate their representative roles in democratic political systems and for specifying the ethical duties that come with political office. Political theorists throughout the ages have generally thought of the democratic representative as either a “delegate” of the constituent-principal on the one hand, or as a “trustee” for the const…
Hearing the Other Side
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy. By Diana C. Mutz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 184p. $60.00 cloth, $20.99 paper.Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life. By Andrew J. Perrin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 208p. $45.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.Deliberative democracy is no longer reserved for the theorists. Empiricists now want a part of the action. With their various to…
Rorty's New School of American Pride
This paper is an historical study of Richard Rorty's political philosophy, demonstrating how his 'mature' thoughts about patriotism and nationalism (evidenced in Achieving Our Country) advance the complexity and nuance of his political theory. By showing where Rorty diverges from his earlier insistence upon the severe separation of the public and private, the paper hopes to expose his newfound appreciation of the private and cultural spheres and …
Rorty's New School of American Pride
This paper is an historical study of Richard Rorty's political philosophy, demonstrating how his 'mature' thoughts about patriotism and nationalism (evidenced in Achieving Our Country) advance the complexity and nuance of his political theory. By showing where Rorty diverges from his earlier insistence upon the severe separation of the public and private, the paper hopes to expose his newfound appreciation of the private and cultural spheres and …
The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy
The Democratic Century
Journal Article The Democratic Century Get access The Democratic Century by Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M. Lakin. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 480 pp. $34.95. Ethan J. Leib Ethan J. Leib University of California, Hastings College of the Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.200…
The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China
This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese
Representation in America
Research Article| January 01 2007 Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and Deliberative Engagement Ethan J. Leib; Ethan J. Leib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David L. Ponet David L. Ponet Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711244 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sear…
Hearing the Other Side
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy. By Diana C. Mutz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 184p. $60.00 cloth, $20.99 paper.Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life. By Andrew J. Perrin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 208p. $45.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.Deliberative democracy is no longer reserved for the theorists. Empiricists now want a part of the action. With their various to…
Fiduciary Representation and Deliberative Engagement with Children
Recent work on “fiduciary representation” has opened up a useful avenue for understanding how state leaders should navigate their representative roles in democratic political systems and for specifying the ethical duties that come with political office. Political theorists throughout the ages have generally thought of the democratic representative as either a “delegate” of the constituent-principal on the one hand, or as a “trustee” for the const…
The core of fiduciary political theory
“Fiduciary political theory” applies norms developed within fiduciary law to public officials and political institutions. Fiduciary political theorists contend that these fiduciary norms describe or, at least, offer insights into the political authority of states and other major questions of political morality. However, many fiduciary political theorists disagree about methodology—specifically, how directly to apply fiduciary norms to the realm o…
Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s "Open Democracy"
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms of direct democracy, to internet crowdsourcing, to representation through random selection to a citizens’ assembly: “representing and being represented in turn” (p. xvii). Her aim: to replace citizen consent with citizen power. The critics advance both praise and misgivin…
Contract as Vow or Oath
Many scholars and judges attempt to harmonize legal practices of contracting with the social practice of promising in ordinary life. This article explores an alternative genealogy of contract in traditional social practices that track many of contract's core norms: taking vows and oaths. Without denying that promissory morality infiltrates modern contract, contract-as-vow-or-oath can expose by way of a supplementary account why some contract rule…
Three Modalities of (Originalist) Fiduciary Constitutionalism
There is an ongoing body of scholarship in contemporary constitutional theory and legal history that can be labeled ‘fiduciary constitutionalism’. Some have wanted to strangle this work in its cradle, offering an argument pitched ‘against fiduciary constitutionalism’, full stop. But because there are enough different modalities of fiduciary constitutionalism—and particularly originalist varieties of it at the center of recent critiques—it is wort…
Fiduciary Parenting of Transgender Youth
This article aims to evaluate whether parents of minors who identify as transgender have moral duties to help their children achieve social or medical transition and whether they have moral permission to take a more oppositional posture and, if so, under what conditions. Very child-centred theories of parenting might recommend that children should get to make their own decisions without parental gatekeeping and very parent-centred theories of par…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Fiduciary (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)