Wednesday, July 18, 2007

On the Temptation of American law School Deans to Play Great White Father (or Mother)

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Pauline Schloesser's book, The Fair Sex (New Edition, New York: NYU Press, 2005) nicely studies the way in which women in the post re...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Of Globalization and Carpet Merchants in Istanbul

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Walking by the endless shops in the touristy SultanAhmet section of Istanbul can be instructive for the ways in which modern global economic...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Of Political States and "Soft" Religion as the Basis for State Organization

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Since the beginning of American difficulties in Iraq--that is since the moment the Iraqi population failed to metastasize into English yeom...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

The Management of Deviance and the Foundation of Law

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First year law students are introduced to a legal fiction with extraordinary power--the "reasonable person" (who used to be a rea...
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Friday, July 06, 2007

Islamic Courts and Rule of Law in Malaysia:

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Over the past several years the Islamic courts of Malaysia have built a significant place for themselves within the legal structure of Malay...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Countess Satan: "Formulas Will Destroy the World and it is We Who Invent Them"

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It has been about a quarter century since the West began to confront a new form of political expression--terrorist acts from members of non-...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Law: Benedict XVI and the Constitution of Political States

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On May 10 2007, Pope Benedict XVI started his visit to Brazil. See P apa apóia excomunhão de politicos pró aborto , O Globo , May 10, ...

Permanent Mission of India to the U.N. v. City of New York: The State as Private Actor in a World of Private Actors

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In a little noticed case decided June 14, 2007, the American Supreme Court held that the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 , 28 ...