Paul Linden-Retek

Combining interests in critical political thought with international socio-legal 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 the European Union—and recommends caution in seeing either commercial integration or human rights as adequate frameworks for justifying and sustaining post-national law. In their place, I develop a critical legal theory centered on narrative—the extended temporal character of political life—as the paradigmatic form in which to reimagine solidarity, legal interpretation and authority, and constituent power beyond the nationstate. Speaking to the EU’s enduring challenges, this work devotes particular attention to migration and asylum, where struggles over the meaning of solidarity, law, and political membership are most acute and generative.” LECTURER IN LAW & SOCIETY RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE BALDY CENTER FOR LAW & SOCIAL POLICY

PhD, Yale University JD, Yale Law School AB, Harvard University

(716) 645-5541 plinden@buffalo.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CRITICAL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND LITERATURE REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAW TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY

ARTICLES Neither Trumps nor Interests: Rights, Pluralism, and the Recovery of Constitutional Judgment, 70(3) Cleveland State Law Review (forthcoming 2022).

History, System, Principle, Analogy: Four Paradigms of Legitimacy in European Law, 26(3) Columbia Journal of European Law 1 (2021).

The Refugees We Are: Solidarity, Asylum, and Critique in the European Constitutional Imagination, 22(4) German Law Review 506 (2021).

Our Fleeting Moments: Legal Thought in a Confessional Key, Law, Culture, and the Humanities 1 (2020).

The Subjects of Spatial Statism: Reclaiming Politics and Law in International Entanglement, 18(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 36 (2020). CHAPTERS Constitutional Patriotism as Europe’s Public Philosophy? On Solidarity and Responsiveness in Post-National Law, in EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology and Utopia (Jan Komárek, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022).

Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism (with Seyla Benhabib), in The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law 295 (Jens Meierhenrich & Martin Loughlin eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021).

OTHER Whose Suffering Matters, Boston Review Online Forum (September 2020). bostonreview.net/law-justice/ paul-linden-retek-whosesuffering-matters