Arthur J. Jacobson (Cardozo Law School) has posted Law Without Authority: Sources of the Welfare State in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Cardozo Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:In his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), Spinoza mounts an attack on authority in all its forms, including the authority of law and the state.