How to Preserve Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance: Democracy or Technology?
It is obvious to most people that we live in an age of mass surveillance. The proliferation of digital technologies and the gadgets that...
Private Guns and Public Safety: Making Sense of the Tension
A natural way to understand the conflict between respecting individual rights and advancing the public good is as follows: if a socially worthwhile cause...
Hamilton’s Folly: The U.S President’s Pardoning Power and Questions of Forgiveness
“The benign prerogative of pardoning”
At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to...
The 49th Parallel: Canadian Philosophy and American Imperialism
In the weeks leading up to his second inauguration as U.S. President, Donald Trump began talking about “annexing” several countries, including Panama, Greenland, and...
How Chinese Youth Engage with Vulnerability Theory: A Reflection
Vulnerability theory, which has gained considerable traction in Western legal and philosophical discourses, particularly in Europe and North America, remains relatively unknown in Chinese...
Is the Law Helpful for Feminist Battles? MacKinnon and Cigarini’s Perspectives
Is the law a tool for feminism or an expression of patriarchy? Is the law able to authentically recognize the differences between the sexes,...
Understanding the Duty to Care: A Vulnerability Perspective
Vulnerability theory differs from liberal political and legal perspectives in significant ways. The theory argues that we must replace the liberal theoretical subject with...
The Supreme Court’s Symbolic Code of Conduct
Two things seem true about modern professional life. One, most professional activities nowadays (legal ones, anyway) are backed by a code of conduct—roughly, a set...
UNDRIP’s Limits on Corrective Reforms to the Basic Structure
§1 Introduction
The United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is intended to provide “a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival,...
Why Care About Fair Legal Procedures?
It appears uncontroversial that having proper legal procedures is integral to the legitimacy of any judicial system and that the nature of these procedures...