Constitutional Law · Democratic Theory · Political Philosophy · Institutional History · Aristotle
I study how law and political institutions acquire authority, organize social power, and justify their governing arrangements. My work connects constitutionalism and jurisprudence with political economy, intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the social sciences.
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Homeowners’ Associations, Institutional Lock-In, and the Democratic Commons
Buying a home can mean accepting an enduring system of government. This book asks how shared residential authority can remain accountable—and how owners can retain a practical capacity to change its rules.
Aristotle, Mechanism, and the Unity of Living Things—a study of how living unity can be material, dynamic, and distributed without a separate ruling form.
A history of vitamins, supplements, the FDA, and the law, 1960–2026—examining health promises, scientific proof, and public responsibility.
From Reconstruction and the Gilded Age to the present—a study of how institutions turn unequal resources and opportunities into judgments of merit, responsibility, and failure.
A concise critique of Bruce Ackerman’s theory that “We the People” make higher law during rare constitutional moments and that the Supreme Court preserves their decisions.
The Supreme Court Power of Judicial Review v. We the People—an examination of judicial power measured against popular sovereignty.
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A study of judicial oversight of the regulatory state’s acquisition, use, and control of private property.
Featuring George Skouras’s article, “On the Formation of the American Corporate State: The Fuller Supreme Court, 1888–1910,” beginning on page 37.
Biology, philosophy, and the institutional architecture of the evolved human animal.
Mathematics, developmental dynamics, and reflexivity in the social sciences.
Published scholarship, working papers, archived preprints, and commentary on philosophy, institutions, law, and democratic life.
British Journal of American Legal Studies 9, no. 2, pages 367–386. An examination of capitalist modernity, common resources, and the institutions that shape their use.
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George Skouras is an independent legal and political scholar, practicing New York attorney, and nonfiction author. His research joins constitutional law and jurisprudence with political theory, intellectual history, political economy, and institutional analysis.
He holds advanced degrees from New York University, Rutgers Law School, and the New School for Social Research. His books include Constitutionalism and Democracy (Springer Nature, 2024) and Takings Law and the Supreme Court (Peter Lang, 1998). Current philosophical research examines Aristotle’s account of matter, form, organization, and substantial unity, alongside broader work on democracy, capitalism, private government, and the biological foundations of institutional life.
Across these projects, Hellenic philosophy is treated as a living intellectual resource for contemporary questions concerning law, civic order, human nature, and democratic institutions.
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M.A. in Political Science, with continuing access to NYU library and research facilities.
J.D., with continuing access to Rutgers library and research facilities.
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