The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment.
Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these …

Environmental law concerns itself largely with the prevention or correction of harm. 1 Under
one view-the view advocated by proponents of the harm principle-harm is a necessary …

In his classic 1897 essay, The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. warned against
blind imitation of the past and called for enlightened skepticism toward the law.'He described …

The world's understanding of the action needed to advance human rights is deeply
structured by the 'respect, protect, and fulfill'framework. But its potential is significantly …

David Rasheed Ali is an observant Muslim and a prison inmate who requested an
exemption from the prison's restrictive policies that prohibited him from wearing a kufi, a knit …

La creciente expansión y protagonismo del Derecho penal en gran parte del mundo, y
especialmente en Estados Unidos, se ha traducido en una gran cantidad de leyes penales y …

Do the Model Penal Code's (MPC) provisions on mental states need revision? The question
might seem preposterous. After all, many believe that these provisions count as the MPC s …

The Abrahamic faiths and received colonial law have been identified as the driving force
behind the criminalisation of homosexual activity in most of the Commonwealth States of …

Eleven years ago, philosopher Robert E. Goodin published No Smoking: The Ethical Issues.
Goodin argued that the liberty of smokers can be justifiably limited for two reasons: to …

Lawrence v. Texas' begins with" Liberty" and ends with" freedom." 2 For the first time in its
history the Supreme Court invalidated a law criminalizing sexual conduct. Add to that …