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
Law
A collection of 105 posts
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
How Institutional Complaints Procedures Get Weaponised
My cardinal sin was to publish a book three years ago called The Welfare Trait that summarised data linking personality and welfare dependency.
Adam Perkins
· 7 min read
The Folly of Racialised 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 Writes Self-Definition of Gender 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
Cakeshop Conflicts — Let Them Eat Rights
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
Brian K. Miller
· 9 min read
The Pursuit of Injustice — Adventures in 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
Universal Basic Income — A Threat to Tyranny?
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
Shai Shapira
· 7 min read
I Survived a Title IX Star Chamber
Most people think of Title IX in relation to women’s access to college sports, but in fact it mandates gender equity in all aspects of higher education.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 13 min read
Mental Health Disabilities as Legal Superpowers
Mental disorders are highly stigmatized conditions, but they have a hidden upside.
Geoffrey Miller
· 24 min read
The Runaway Executive
‘Everyone else has to march up East Street in the heat,’ he’d go on, ‘or make arrangements with my pupil’ (that pupil was me). ‘Why shouldn’t they?’
Helen Dale
· 5 min read
When Accusations Abound Who Will Protect the Falsely Maligned?
Allowing one group to use freighted words like homophobe or racist or rapist to tarnish an individual’s reputation without proof violates a principle of fairness that some of us hold dear.
Irene Ogrizek
· 9 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
Should Governments Outlaw Bad Child Names?
Unites States is hardly the only country that regulates child naming. Some, such as Portugal, have a list of government pre-approved names, so parents can choose from the list.
Eldar Sarajlic
· 7 min read