Law - Quillette (Page 2)

Why Not Polygamy?

Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

28 May 2022 · 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

25 Jan 2022 · 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.

23 Nov 2021 · 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

20 Jul 2021 · 24 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

6 Jun 2021 · 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

19 May 2021 · 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

9 Apr 2021 · 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

16 Jan 2021 · 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

7 Nov 2020 · 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

8 Sep 2020 · 13 min read

Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won't Help Anyone

Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.

Joshua Hunter

8 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

Arguing in America

Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.

Geoff Costeloe

6 Jul 2020 · 5 min read

Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory

Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.

RJ Smith

7 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

Fabricated Innocence

The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.

Andrew Hammel

8 Mar 2020 · 41 min read

An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion

The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”

Silvia G. Poratelli

26 Feb 2020 · 12 min read