Dignity, Honor, and Human Rights: Kant’s Perspective

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

Alex Wentker’s book, which will stand as the definitive work on co-party status for years, offers an extremely careful and comprehensive look at the...

Virtue jurisprudence is an approach to normative legal theory that answers normative questions about law from a perspective that is centred on the...

Crosspollination between the transitional justice (tj) and business and human rights (B&H) fields has led to a growing scholarly focus on the role of...

For decades, Colombia has faced an ongoing series of armed conflicts involving a diverse range of non-official armed actors. The legal and public...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to transform public international lawyering. ChatGPT and similar LLMs can do so in at least five ways...

In theoretical linguistics the word “pragmatics” refers to the roles of context and communicative intentions in the production of meaning. Those roles...

This Article develops a new way of understanding the law in order to address contemporary debates about judicial practice and reform. The...

A large segment of the political left identifies as “progressive,” but what does a belief in progress entail? This short essay, written for a...

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

Constitutional theory is a mess. Disagreements about originalism and living constitutionalism have become intractable. Constitutional theorists make...

Moore v. United States raises the question whether unrealized gains, such as an increase in property value or a stock portfolio, constitute “incomes...

A crucial first step in addressing intimate-image abuse is its proper conceptualization. Intimate-image abuse amounts to a violation of intimate...

“Dignity” is a rallying cry of social and political movements worldwide. It also appears in legal doctrine and scholarship. But the meaning of dignity...

Although ethical critiques of markets are longstanding, modern academic debates about the “moral limits of markets” (MLM) tend to be fairly limited in...

Many analyses of law take an unsentimental, perhaps even cynical view of regulated actors. On this view, law is a necessity borne of people’s selfish...