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Global Justice

The Law Ought to Be King

Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.

Peera Songkünnatham

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Global Justice

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Down on Law

Germany's most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

William E. Scheuerman

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

The Wound and the Dream

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

Patrick Erouart-Siad

Global Justice, Race

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Susie Linfield

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Global Justice, Politics

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos.

Kieko Matteson, Robert Perkinson

Global Justice, Politics

Identity Politics

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

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

Global Justice, Politics

On Pinochet

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

Paul W. Kahn

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

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

Global Justice, Politics

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

John Tirman

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

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

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

Cass Sunstein

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Toward the End of War

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

Randall Forsberg

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

Betty Sosnin

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