Law & Society Blog

After an eye-opening trip to Toronto earlier this year, we’re now exploring Montreal, another truly great city.

It seems that we can’t get enough of this timeless problem.

It is common practice in university departments to evaluate texts by way of “the principle of charity”. Some formulations of this principle make for fantastic additions to our analytical toolkit(s). Other formulations are mere distractions, and they waste our time.
It is misleading in the first place to speak of one single principle of charity, as […]

Glenn Greenwald argues:
The basic mechanics of American democracy, imperfect and defective though they may be, still function. Chronic defeatists and conspiracy theorists — well-intentioned though they may be — need to re-evaluate their defeatism and conspiracy theories in light of this rather compelling evidence which undermines them (a refusal to re-evaluate one’s beliefs in light […]

Here is an inspired cartoon by the Australian artist Bill Leak.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003345862
I don’t really want to lower the tone of this blog, but I have to say, this story is revolting at a level I find hard to express.
Greg Mitchell reports:
The true stories of how American troops, killed in Iraq, actually died keep spilling out this week. On Tuesday, we explored the case of Kenny Stanton […]

Privacy International published an interesting survey of the degree of informational privacy afforded by various countries to its citizens.