Law

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

  • Hugo Adam Bedau

Review: Crossing Over

Reporting from the border zones. 

  • Scott Saul

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

  • Joshua Cohen

Down on Law

On Carl Schmitt, Germany’s most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

  • William E. Scheuerman

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

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Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Susie Linfield

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos

  • Kieko Matteson
  • Robert Perkinson

Eliminating the Danger

What can we do to prevent a nuclear catastrophe?

  • Boston Review
with responses from
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence S. Wittner
  • Vladislav M. Zubok
  • Jonathan Schell
  • Sergey Rogov

Identity Politics

Forced deportations threaten to turn the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war.

  • Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

When Rights Are Wrong

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan
with responses from
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Joel F. Handler
  • Carol S. Steiker
  • Wesley G. Skogan
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Franklin E. Zimring
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Paul Farley
  • Richard H. Pildes

Banishing the Specter of War

How early warning and early action can prevent the escalation of disputes into armed violence.

  • Randall Forsberg
  • Jonathan Dean
  • Saul Mendlovitz
with responses from
  • Kosta Tsipis
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Alan Cranston
  • Lora Lumpe
  • Randall Forsberg

On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

  • Paul W. Kahn

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

  • Loren Goldner

Review: The Color of Truth

By Kai Bird.

  • Jeff Jones

Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

  • John Tirman

The Immigrant as Pariah

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Jennifer Gordon
  • Ulrich Preuss
  • Iris M. Young
  • Robin West
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Myron Weiner
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Muzaffar Chishti

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”

  • Cass Sunstein

Review: Spectral Evidence

  • Edward Greer

Constitution-Making in South Africa

The process illustrates a refreshing jurisprudence, at once principled and pragmatic.

  • Margaret A. Burnham

Toward the End of War

Modern weapons are so destructive that war is less and less likely to take place.

  • Randall Forsberg
with responses from
  • Robert Borosage
  • Edward Luttwak
  • Raimo Väyrynen
  • Ulrich Albrecht
  • Carl Kaysen
  • Bruce Russett
  • Ronald V. Dellums
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