When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
Apr 17, 2017 02:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Twittersphere went into meltdown on Monday night after a spat on ABCs QA between bioethics professor Margaret Somerville and 81-year-old audience member Patricia Fellows. Somerville defended, at some length, her...
Will we reverse the little progress we've made on environmental justice?
Apr 17, 2017 01:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Law
The Flint water crisis was perhaps the most high-profile example of the social inequalities tied to environmental issues. But it is hardly the first. There is ample evidence that hazardous waste facilities, Superfund...
Is the Supreme Court acting less like a court?
Apr 16, 2017 14:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
As the pinnacle of the judicial branch, the U.S. Supreme Court is necessarily involved in some of the highest-profile, most controversial and most political cases across the country. And it is one of the most widely...
How pop culture can (and should) change legal views on swearing
Apr 12, 2017 15:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Entertainment
Warning: The following article contains explicit language. A bedtime storybook urges children to Go the F . . k to Sleep! The Wolf of Wall Street, one of the sweariest movies of all time, contains 506 f-bombs. And in...
Hungary’s assault on academic freedom is a threat to European principles
Apr 11, 2017 14:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Tens of thousands of people recently demonstrated in the Hungarian capital of Budapest against attempts by their government to close the Central European University (CEU). This was the second large-scale demonstration...
We could soon face a robot crimewave ... the law needs to be ready
Apr 11, 2017 13:41 pm UTC| Technology Law
This is where we are at in 2017: sophisticated algorithms are both predicting and helping to solve crimes committed by humans; predicting the outcome of court cases and human rights trials; and helping to do the work done...
Shadow banking and where it came from
Apr 11, 2017 07:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
The term shadow banking often has connotations of dodgy lending and borrowing practices, out of reach of regulators. And while its use may contribute to risk, in reality shadow banking does serve a purpose in our economy,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects