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
Law
A collection of 78 posts
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
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
· 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 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
· 6 min read
Fabricated Innocence
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
Andrew Hammel
· 42 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
· 12 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part Two: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Jamie Palmer
· 35 min read