natural law

July 16, 2024

The Common Good Enlightenment

Governing for the common good has been tried before, Martyn Rady explains. It did not go well. Continue reading

History, Legal philosophy

common good, Enlightenment, Europe, natural law, Roman Law, Rule of Law
August 31, 2021

Tanstaafl

What do a libertarian society and its laws look like? Thoughts on Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Continue reading

Legal philosophy, Literature, Political philosophy

adjudication, constitutionalism, Heinlein, natural law, positive law, science fiction
July 25, 2020

Antigone in Hamilton

The confrontation between New Zealand legal system and a family trying to bury a dead husband/father is eerily like Sophocles’ tragedy Continue reading

Criminal Law/Policy, Legal philosophy, Literature

Antigone, civil disobedience, covid, natural law, New Zealand, sentencing
August 28, 2017

The Rule against Violence

A timely opinion on freedom of expression by Justice Miller for the Ontario Court of Appeal Continue reading

Constitutional law

Charter, freedom of expression, natural law, protest, violence
February 26, 2017

First of All Our Laws

Natural law in a Québec Court of Appeal decision in 1957 Continue reading

History, Law and Religion, Legal philosophy

implied bill of rights, Jehovah’s witnesses, natural law, Québec, religious exemptions