The Crucible of Adversarial Testing
Albert Einstein once said: A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Experiments help us find the answers to problems. Experiments help us find...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Principles of American Justice
Scott Greenfield’s blog, Simple Justice, is probably the only legal blog where I try never to miss a post. If I fall behind, it bugs me, and when I get the chance, I’ll catch up by spending an hour or...
View ArticleLost Moorings: The Great Experiment Fails
Some readers of this blog may have noticed a recent tendency to talk about “instrumentalist” approaches to the law. My offline focus lately has been on the methods and principles that lie behind the...
View ArticleReasonable Doubt & The Lack of Political Will
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out certain things. Two that I seem to spend an immense amount of time on lately are these: Is the world really becoming a more insane, or at least idiotic,...
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Law & Freedom
Properly utilized, Law-with-a-capital-L is necessary to ensure freedom for as many people as possible in any space shared by more than one individual with divergent desires. This is ironic, since laws...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Meaninglessness of Justice
While trawling the Internet, trying to decide what to write about – because having a blog means it’s always begging for content, and however poor my writing skills may be, they still cry out for a walk...
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Justice, Only Justice
On the wall at my house, hangs a piece of Jewish art I bought more years ago than I can remember. I found it back in the halcyon days when I was a religious conservative Jew jetting around Fresno on...
View ArticleAll Those Words
Someone—it may have been Scott Greenfield—suggested the other day that we imagine that Congress did away with all the laws on the books, and replaced them with one law to rule them all: It shall be a...
View ArticleThe Crucible of Adversarial Testing
Albert Einstein once said: A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Experiments help us find the answers to problems. Experiments help us find...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Principles of American Justice
Scott Greenfield’s blog, Simple Justice, is probably the only legal blog where I try never to miss a post. If I fall behind, it bugs me, and when I get the chance, I’ll catch up by spending an hour or...
View ArticleLost Moorings: The Great Experiment Fails
Some readers of this blog may have noticed a recent tendency to talk about “instrumentalist” approaches to the law. My offline focus lately has been on the methods and principles that lie behind the...
View ArticleReasonable Doubt & The Lack of Political Will
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out certain things. Two that I seem to spend an immense amount of time on lately are these: Is the world really becoming a more insane, or at least idiotic,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Law & Freedom
Properly utilized, Law-with-a-capital-L is necessary to ensure freedom for as many people as possible in any space shared by more than one individual with divergent desires. This is ironic, since laws...
View ArticleThe Crucible of Adversarial Testing
Albert Einstein once said: A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Experiments help us find the answers to problems. Experiments help us find...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Principles of American Justice
Scott Greenfield’s blog, Simple Justice, is probably the only legal blog where I try never to miss a post. If I fall behind, it bugs me, and when I get the chance, I’ll catch up by spending an hour or...
View ArticleLost Moorings: The Great Experiment Fails
Some readers of this blog may have noticed a recent tendency to talk about “instrumentalist” approaches to the law. My offline focus lately has been on the methods and principles that lie behind the...
View ArticleReasonable Doubt & The Lack of Political Will
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out certain things. Two that I seem to spend an immense amount of time on lately are these: Is the world really becoming a more insane, or at least idiotic,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Law & Freedom
Properly utilized, Law-with-a-capital-L is necessary to ensure freedom for as many people as possible in any space shared by more than one individual with divergent desires. This is ironic, since laws...
View ArticleThe Presumption of Guilt
Over at Simple Justice, the blog of my old friend, Scott Greenfield, a debate was posted. (Haha! I did it again! I recover my old blog by firing my marketing company, and my posts return to being...
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