Williams on the Jurisprudence of Sandwiches @sawilliams.bsky.social

Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, has published The Jurisprudence of Sandwiches. Here is the abstract.

The question of what bread-based foods count as sandwiches is a contentious one that seemingly everyone has an opinion on. This includes many prominent legal minds, including prominent judge Richard Posner and Supreme Court Justices Scalia, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor. This question is not purely hypothetical to the law, as courts have had to determine the meaning of a sandwich in cases with thousands of dollars on the line. In this essay, I examine this budding sandwich jurisprudence and how it explains and exemplifies several unique features of legal thought, including the ongoing debate between legal formalism and legal realism, the reasonable person, and the breaking up of binary political identity into more nuanced portrayals of "liberal" and "conservative" justices. By biting in to this developing jurisprudence, I help to bridge the gap between the legal mind and the broader world of sandwich analysists.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.