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Revisiting Leigh Van Valen’s “A New Evolutionary Law” (1973)
Leigh Van Valen was an American evolutionary biologist who made major contributions to evolutionary theory. He is particularly remembered for his...
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Political Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy
Altogether, political philosophy, law, and public policy make up the official positions and practices regarding racial difference in society....
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Taiwan’s Road to an Asylum Law: Who, When, How, and Why Not Yet?
Taiwan is considered to be one of the most progressive countries in Asia but has no asylum law. Does it need one? Many in Taiwan, including officials...
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Convivial Mythologies: The Poiesis of Modern Law
In a tribute to the intellectual legacy of Peter Fitzpatrick, this article explores the poiesis of modern law, as a constitutive ambivalence...
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Navigating abortion law dilemmas: experiences and attitudes among Ethiopian health care professionals
BackgroundEthiopia’s 2005 abortion law improved access to legal abortion. In this study we examine the experiences of abortion providers with the...
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Human Rights Law and the Obligation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Human rights law has been called upon to help with the problem of persistently high greenhouse gas emissions. An obligation on states and other legal...
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Decolonising the Curriculum in International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Calls to decolonise the curriculum gain traction across the academe. To a great extent, the movement echoes demands of the decolonisation era itself,...
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Law in the Renaissance, Roman
Although the penetration, prominence, and authority of Roman law in practice varied across Europe, the academic study of jurisprudence, which spread...
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On the (in)significance of Hume’s Law
Hume’s Law that one cannot derive an “ought” from an “is” has often been deemed to bear a significance that extends far beyond logic. Repeatedly, it...
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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law and the Rights to Life and Equality at International Law
In international law, the right to life has been described as the most fundamental human right, without which other core human rights cannot be...
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Self-Interest as a Source of the Common Good in Post-Hobbesian Natural Law
Thomas Hobbes’s radical tendency to view natural law as a means of individual self-preservation sparked critical responses among natural law...
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Digital Humanitarian Map** and the Limits of Imagination in International Law
Humanitarian maps assembled using digital technology are indicative of transformations underway in how the world is made knowable, sensible, and...
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Children as voices and images for medicinal cannabis law reform
This article situates the movement for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis within the bigger picture of the impetus toward recreational cannabis...
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Regulatory Entrepreneurship, Fair Competition, and Obeying the Law
Some sharing economy firms have adopted a strategy of “regulatory entrepreneurship,” openly violating regulations with the aim of rendering them dead...
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The Restlessness of Resistance: Community, Myth, and Negativity in Law
Peter Fitzpatrick’s intellectual relationship with Jean-Luc Nancy centred on the related problems of myth and community. In this article, I will...
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A Late Antique Rabbinic Discourse on the Linguistic (In-)determinacy of the Law
The late antique rabbis of Roman Palestine were seasoned jurists, experts on exegesis and legal interpretation. Yet rabbinic literature does not...
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The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations
This paper illustrates how an experimental discovery can prompt the search for a theoretical explanation and also how obtaining such an explanation...
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Unrecognised States: The Necessary Affirmation of the Event of International Law
Fitzpatrick’s writing on international law did not constitute the main focus of his oeuvre. However, the determinate-responsive nature of law that...