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Law & Justice, Politics

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Colleen Murphy

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Law & Justice

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Down on Law

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

William E. Scheuerman

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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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

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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

Law & Justice, Politics

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Loren Goldner

Law & Justice

Review: Spectral Evidence

Spectral Evidence, The Ramona Case: Incest, Memory, and Truth on Trial in Napa Valley Moira

Edward Greer

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The Immigrant as Pariah

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

Owen Fiss

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

The Right to Choose Death?

Do people have a right to choose death? More particularly, are euthanasia and physician-assisted

F. M. Kamm

Law & Justice, Politics

Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy?

We need a system of free expression that is both old and new.

Cass Sunstein

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

Walter Kendrick

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