Law & Society Blog

Ola Endre Reitstøen presents this collected a library of interviews and presentations by Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennet (among others).

The French parliament has passed a law, making it a criminal offense to deny the Armenian Genocide of 1915-17, as the BBC reports:
The bill, which provides for a year in jail and a heavy fine, still needs approval from the Senate and president.
Turkey called the decision a “serious blow” to relations with France. It has […]

I have long been critical of the tactics that are sometimes employed by left-wing activists on college campuses, and also of the kind of thinking (or perhaps more accurately not thinking) that tends to motivate the use of such tactics. This criticism has earned me much scorn from members of the campus left, and […]

Scott Horton has written a powerful essay on the moral and legal responsibilities of lawyers in a time of war.

Bruce Schneier recently led a discussion about privacy and security at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as part of a speaker series organized by Cory Doctorow. Here is the podcast, which doesn’t disappoint.

Michael Huemer offers a selection of quotes from the Bible. Some of them are indeed scary:When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations .

With the third season opener for Battlestar Galactica, Ron Moore firmly lays claim to the best series on TV since the West Wing.

Even though the passage of the NSA surveillance bill was stalled at the last minute, it is pretty clear that the only reliable means of ensuring privacy is to rely on technology, not on the law. For example, here is an excerpt from the privacy policy one of the leading providers of anonymous internet access:[W]e disclose personal information only in the good faith belief that we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; respond to any spamming and related abuses of netiquette claims; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of [our co, our customers, or the public.