So I'll be going on the market this month, presenting this piece, recently accepted for publication in the Canadian J of Law & Jurisprudence. I'll post a version on ssrn soon; let me know if you'd like to read the penultimate draft.

Excited to see this one out soon, with the inimitable @tkenneth.bsky.social.
We argue for an orienting relation between de jure and de facto authority, stress the importance of political power, and show how attention to it reveals the dynamics of state authority.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...