Law

Prosecuting Torture Isn’t Politics, It’s Human Rights

Why do so many legal theorists think prosecuting would be undemocratic?

  • Adam Hosein

The Law Behind Torture

Justifying the necessity defense in Israel and the United States.

  • Itamar Mann

Brazil’s Era of Possibility

A Berkeley radical returns to his native Brazil after the Berlin Wall's fall.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Extraordinary Criminals

Why don’t corporate wrongdoers go to prison?

  • Jessica Pishko

Lena Dunham Wasn’t a Pedophile, and Neither Were You

Why are we even debating whether a seven-year-old child was a child molester?

  • Judith Levine

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

  • Omri Boehm

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Trench Democracy in Public Administration #3: An Interview with Jamie Verbrugge

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

  • Elaine Scarry
  • Simon Waxman

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families detained in Artesia, New Mexico, are suing the U.S. government

  • Lauren Carasik

Six Shots in Michael Brown

The judicial process cannot account for what matters most: the policies and biases that enable white men to claim justification in the murder of black men.

  • Simon Waxman

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

  • Assaf Sharon

On Human Shields

If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?

  • Seth Lazar

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

  • F. M. Kamm

People v. Dole

Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?

  • Susanna Bohme

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

A Business Can Exercise Religion, but Hobby Lobby Still Gets It Wrong

Why did the Supreme Court extend religious exercise rights to for-profit corporations?

  • Kiel Brennan-Marquez

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

How to stop the United States from overreaching, overspending, and overcommitting. 

  • Barry R. Posen

SCOTUS Protects ‘The Privacies of Life’

At last, a unanimous Supreme Court decision in which the Justices agree with… me.

  • Reed Hundt

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Only Government I Know

How the Criminal Justice System Degrades Democratic Citizenship

  • Vesla M. Weaver

Campus Gun Control Works

Despite recent shootings, schools, including college campuses, exemplify the success of gun control.

  • Evan DeFilippis

Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

Is it naïve to see whistleblowing as a form of civil disobedience?

  • William E. Scheuerman

Privacy is Not Dead—It’s Inevitable

The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.

  • Neil M. Richards
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