human dignity
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Undignified
The Supreme Court holds that life imprisonment without parole is unconstitutional. Its reasons are unconvincing. Continue reading
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Sentencing Judgment Found Inside a Chinese Fortune Cookie
The sentencing judgment in the Québec City mosque shooter’s case is badly flawed Continue reading
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Hate, Dignity, and Law
For those who are not yet sick and tired of my expostulations on the subject, I venture some concluding thoughts on the criminalization of hate speech, and on Jeremy Waldron’s argument in support of such criminalization. My previous posts on the topic are here, here, here, and here. Prof. Waldron argues that hate speech must Continue reading
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Offence and Defence
I come to the third and final part of my comment on Jeremy Waldron’s case for criminalizing hate speech, The Harm in Hate Speech, a book that extends the Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard a few years ago. I addressed his attempt to define hate speech as group libel here, concluding that it was not successful. I Continue reading
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Hate Speech and Group Libel
As I promised yesterday, I want to share a few thoughts on some arguments that Jeremy Waldron makes in The Harm in Hate Speech, his book making the case for criminalizing hate speech. (Prof. Waldron’s Holmes Lectures, from which the book grew, were published in the Harvard Law review, and are available here.) I will address Continue reading
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State, Means, and Ends
I am auditing Jeremy Waldron’s seminar on human dignity this semester. Since prof. Waldron’s rule is that auditors “must be seen but not heard” in class, I will use the blog as an outlet for thoughts and comments. One thing we did in yesterday’s seminar was to go through the rights-protecting amendments to the U.S. Continue reading
Double Aspect 