What Is the Law?
How can we base any stable conception of law on moral notions about which reasonable people are bound to disagree?
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Law
A collection of 68 posts
In Defence of Combat Robots
Human weaknesses in combat are well-documented and largely consistent. Technology, by contrast, improves with every passing week.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
Katy Barnett
· 18 min read
The Folly of a Racialized Criminal Justice Reform Debate
America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and—in state prisons—blacks are incarcerated at five times the rate of whites."
Joshua Hunter
· 7 min read
Portugal Poised to Write Gender Fluidity into Law
It’s difficult to say if it was really created to advance the rights of these people, or if it was simply cobbled together on some sort of whim.
Ricardo Lopes
· 8 min read
Unpopular Speech and the Shaping of the First Amendment
Schenck and Masses provided opportunities for two judges to set the foundations of First Amendment doctrine for many years to come.
Jak Allen
· 9 min read
Pursuit of Injustice: Further Adventures Under Title IX
So, how did the Dear Colleague Letter turn universities into star chambers? It lowered the burden of proof for a guilty finding in sex cases, and stripped the accused of due process.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 7 min read
FBI Director Comey: Straight Shooter or Feckless Careerist? How About Neither
FBI Director Comey's call not to charge Hillary Clinton aimed to avoid political turmoil in a charged climate.
Deion Kathawa
· 5 min read