Measuring the cost of justice
Friday, 1 July 2022
Laura Kövesi is the European Union’s head of Public Prosecution.
law
The man who saved Kyle Rittenhouse
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Yale Kamisar passed away 30 January 2022 aged 92. He was an American legal scholar and writer and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Most of us have not heard of him, but his impact on the legal world was ground-breaking. He is known in legal circles as “Father of Miranda”.
If you’ve ever watched an American cop making an arrest on screen, you would probably have heard these words before:
How to judge Biden?
Saturday, 5 February 2022
United States president Joe Biden has been making a lot of noises about appointing an African-American woman to the country’s Supreme Court1 ; this after incumbent Justice Stephen Breyer recently announced his intent to retire at the end of the court’s current term.
Yes, but is it paedophilia?
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Even after his death, there continues to be outrage — deserved, in my opinion — around Jeffrey Epstein's 36 recorded counts of sexual abuse. Some of his victims were 14 years old.
But this is 2020, and even well-meaning people commenting on the matter get taken to task, for example, this: