Law

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Bracingly liberal views

Dwight G. Duncan | 28 February 2013 |

tags: law, obituaries, political correctness

Legal scholar Ronald Dworkin, the grand old man of political correctness, died earlier this month.

No standing: what marriage radicals really think of “the people”

Jennifer Roback Morse | 16 September 2011 |

tags: law, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage

Is it same-sex marriage rights they want, or a revolution in the American legal system?

Are we all travelling incognito?

Denyse O'Leary | 21 June 2011 |

tags: crime, law, neuroscience

Does "my brain made me do it" seem like a good excuse in a court of law?

Justice overwhelmed is justice denied

Carolyn Moynihan | 17 May 2011 |

tags: genocide, law

Does it make sense to haul every last participant in genocide before a court, no matter how unimportant he was?

Your Constitutional right to be crazy

Theron Bowers | 24 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, insanity, law

The man who killed six people and seriously wounded a Congresswoman in Tucson was crazy. But not crazy enough to be locked up.

Scholars turn their minds to marriage

Margaret Somerville | 02 December 2010 |

tags: law, marriage, philosophy

A collection of in-depth essays on a beleaguered institution turns out to be a fascinating read.

Why we can’t not legislate morality

Micah Watson | 11 November 2010 |

tags: law, morality

All legislation is moral. The sooner we recognize this fact, the better.

Credentialism triumphs over democracy

Michael Cook | 05 August 2010 |

tags: homosexuality, law, same-sex marriage

A Federal Court judge has struck down California's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Citizens United and the problem of modern judicial activism

Carson Holloway | 09 February 2010 |

tags: judicial activism, law, Supreme Court

Why the concept of “strict scrutiny” is alien to the Constitution and why it poses a threat to a constitutionally defensible judicial review.

Ethical pitfalls in academic publishing

Margaret Somerville | 10 September 2009 |

tags: ethics, law, publishing, research

Today's ghost-writer might be simply yesterday's research assistant, argues an ethicist.