by Jackson Allen In this post, I argue that because private prosecutions illegitimately privatise a key public function and create accountability deficits, they should have only the most minimal ro…

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by Sorcha McCormack In this post, I argue that humans are not rational robots; rather, we are defined, in part, by our vulnerability to circumstances and to each other. The law relating to sexual c…

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by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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Professor Andrew Simester is Dean of National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, and Amaladass […]

by Chloë Kennedy In this post, I outline the argument I make in my recently published book, Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law, where I suggest that we consult the genealogy of legal…

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by Adam Kolber In this post, I outline the argument I make in my recently published book, Punishment for the Greater Good. I argue that a pure consequentialist approach to punishment (one that deni…

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