Remembering Rumpole
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Law
A collection of 70 posts
Dismantle DEI Ideology
The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.
Heather Mac Donald
· 16 min read
Justice in Stockholm
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Roya Hakakian
· 19 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This
The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Why Not Polygamy?
Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?
Cheryl Mendelson
· 21 min read
The Acquittal of the Colston Four
Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.
Matthew Scott
· 14 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
· 16 min read
Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo
They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo
· 25 min read
No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.
Kenny Xu and Christian Watson
· 7 min read
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Karin Litzcke
· 16 min read
Georgetown's Cultural Revolution
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
Lama Abu-Odeh
· 12 min read
Degree Requirements for Police Officers Will Not Make Us Safer
Relegating police training to outside universities smacks of duty shirking; it should be the responsibility (and purview) of police departments to train law enforcement professionals effectively.
Nicholas Sharrer
· 12 min read
A Reasoned Judgment and a Reputation in Ruins
Depp has found that using the law to defend your reputation is a very expensive way of shattering it.
Matthew Scott
· 10 min read
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment
The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.
Rav Arora
· 14 min read