You know the criminal justice situation in the US is bad when you open the morning paper and read this paragraph as the lede in a front-section article (that happens to be written by Adam Liptak): In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling for the abolition of life imprisonment without the possibility […]
Category: international law
BBC News is reporting that the mother of a 15-year-old girl who has severe cerebral palsy is asking doctors to perform a hysterectomy on the girl. The mother’s reason? To prevent her disabled da
Some good news out of Washington: Congress voted last night to get rid of the Global Gag Rule, which denies funding to all international organizations that “perform abortions in cases other than
Dan Drezner (cursed be his name) aptly sums up my thinking on international law and Iraq. First, I think he’s quite right to call out John Quiggin on the latter’s implication that international law has caused the reduction in wars since 1945: Quiggin is factually correct that interstate war has been on the wane since […]