Black-swan law: a law created in response to a highly unrepresentative situation or legal case, which is typically rushed into effect and then used to regulate everyone’s daily life. Never trust a law named after a person. It is most likely a politician’s act of self-aggrandizement or the result of public frenzy. Caylee’s law is the latter.
According to the great Internet-jerk theory, normal person + anonymity + audience = total jerk The actual theory and conclusion use far more obscene language, but the message remains intact: anonymity breeds bad behavior. I disagree. Or, rather, I believe the benefits of online anonymity substantially outweigh its peripheral disadvantages. This
Last month, an international rights tribunal slapped America across the face through a showcase ruling that has no legal force. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that Jessica Lenahan could sue the Castle Rock, Colorado, police department for its refusal in 1999 to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband. The
When Julie Veilleux discovered she was American, she went to the nearest US embassy to renounce her citizenship. Having lived in Canada since she was a young child, the 48-year-old had no idea she carried the burden of dual citizenship. But the renunciation will not clear away the past ten years of penalties with the Internal Revenue Service
“Outright innocence is not sufficient to escape the brutality of detention.” If you reside in America and it is dinnertime, you have almost certainly broken the law. In his book Three Felonies a Day , civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate estimates that the average person unknowingly breaks at least three federal criminal laws every day. This
Presidential election 2020 is the same as every other, except in the ways it isn’t. Allow me to expand on this. What is the same? The purpose of all elections is to allow a band of people called the state to legitimize their claim of control over everyone and everything within a given jurisdiction. In his book The Rise and Fall of Society , the
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. “ T rauma-informed justice ” has percolated in academia and activism for decades. It is now knocking on the door of local police departments to demand changes that could upend the basics of how people relate to law enforcement. The approach converts the police into social workers or
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. President Joe Biden vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, the sexual misconduct hearings will be deeply impacted. These “trials” judge whether those accused of sexual misconduct are
On September 22, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The order speaks of “race or sex stereotyping,” which is defined as the act of “ascribing character traits, values, moral and ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race or sex, or to an individual because of his or her race or sex.”
Las siglas 2SLGBTQ+IA significan dos espíritus, lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales, queer, cuestionadores, intersexuales, andróginos y asexuales. A menudo se dice que la comunidad 2SLGBTQ+IA busca «derechos e igualdad» para sus miembros. ¿Qué persona justa podría oponerse? Sin embargo, cada vez más, la comunidad parece querer también
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