Category: Law & Philosophy
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Razib at Brown Pundits. A few people have asked me about the Geert Wilders’ affair. If you don’t know Geert Wilders’ is a right-wing Dutch politician prone to making inflammatory remarks about Islam. He’s been brought to court on the grounds of whether his comments violated the speech laws in much of Europe, which sanction…
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Nor do subordinates come with the office. Once again, the news cycle is dominated by stories of powerful men embroiled in sexual behavior which is at best unsavory in one instance and probably criminal in another. Boys will be boys, right? And it is none of our business, most of the time. But older men in positions of power are not adolescent boys and predatory behavior resembling a rutting chimpanzee…
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I don't know how to characterize this story except as a stubborn (and hilarious) philosophical debate.. That this is a real life event and tax payer funds are involved, makes it excruciating. (h/t Leo Lincourt) CLEVELAND, Ohio — What is a photocopier? That seems like such a simple question. But last year, a lawyer in a public-records case being heard by the…
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What would your biography look like if it was written by Google? Would Google emphasize the same aspects of your character and life story that you would? If a set of court cases currently working their way through the Spanish justice system is any indication, Google would likely select the moments in history when you…
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A little over a month ago Wikileaks began to release U.S. State Department diplomatic cables and politicians cried. Previously, Wikileaks had released U.S. Army SIGACT reports, detailing nearly every engagement in Afghanistan since the invasion, and politicians cried. Before that Wikileaks had released the Iraq War logs, before that the Apache attack on Reuters journalists.…
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Surprise! Ron Paul Stands Up for the First Amendment! Ron Paul stands up for the First Amendment, protecting the truth, and supporting the messenger who delivers the truth.
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Ethan Leib (with Michael Serota) in USA Today, on the senate confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan. The political rhetoric and popular media coverage of Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings has been filled with significant debate over matters of constitutional law. We've heard questions and answers (or non-answers) about the freedom of speech, about executive power,…
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Some relief from the ‘Hollow and vapid charade‘ that Kagan once considered the proceeds of a Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing, I presume.
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Dan Solove talks about this at Concurring Opinions. According to news reports, Tiger Woods is going to insist on a confidentiality clause in their upcoming divorce contract / settlement agreement with Elin Nordegren. The interesting question to me is: Why? Tiger Woods has pretty much already had his reputation destroyed. Everyone in the world already…
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Orin has a post up at Volokh Conspiracy posing a thought experiment (or something) to originalists. Essentially, it's been good constitutional law for a long time that the sixth amendment right to counsel means that the state must provide an attorney for a criminal defendant (in a sufficiently serious case). Under stare decisis principles, this…
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