Paul Linden-Retek LECTURER IN L AW & SOCIET Y R E S E A R C H F E LLOW AT TH E B A LDY C E NTE R FOR L AW & SOCIAL POLICY PhD, Yale University JD, Yale Law School AB, Harvard University (716) 645-5541
Combining interests in critical political thought with international socio-legal
plinden@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Constitutional Patriotism as Europe’s
CRITICAL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY
Public Philosophy? On Solidarity and
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Responsiveness in Post-National Law,
LAW AND LITERATURE
in EU Constitutional Imagination:
REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAW
Between Ideology and Utopia
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY
(Jan Komárek, eds., Oxford University
ARTICLES
Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism (with
Neither Trumps nor Interests:
Seyla Benhabib), in The Cambridge
Rights, Pluralism, and the Recovery
Companion to the Rule of Law 295
of Constitutional Judgment, 70(3)
(Jens Meierhenrich & Martin Loughlin
Cleveland State Law Review
eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021).
studies, I study transformations of legal and political form under contemporary globalization. My current research examines the legality and democratic legitimacy we find in the overlapping jurisdictions of
Press, forthcoming 2022).
(forthcoming 2022).
the European Union—and
OTHER
recommends caution in seeing either commercial integration or human rights as adequate frameworks for justifying and sustaining post-national
History, System, Principle, Analogy:
Whose Suffering Matters, Boston
Four Paradigms of Legitimacy in
Review Online Forum (September
European Law, 26(3) Columbia
2020). bostonreview.net/law-justice/
Journal of European Law 1 (2021).
paul-linden-retek-whosesuffering-matters
law. In their place, I develop a
The Refugees We Are: Solidarity,
critical legal theory centered
Asylum, and Critique in the European
on narrative—the extended
Constitutional Imagination, 22(4)
temporal character of political
German Law Review 506 (2021).
life—as the paradigmatic form in which to reimagine
Our Fleeting Moments: Legal Thought
solidarity, legal interpretation
in a Confessional Key, Law, Culture,
and authority, and constituent
and the Humanities 1 (2020).
power beyond the nationstate. Speaking to the EU’s
The Subjects of Spatial Statism:
enduring challenges, this work
Reclaiming Politics and Law in
devotes particular attention
International Entanglement, 18(1)
to migration and asylum,
International Journal of
where struggles over the
Constitutional Law 36 (2020).
meaning of solidarity, law, and political membership are most acute and generative.”
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