On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court upheld state and city-level bans on sleeping in public spaces—effectively, laws against homelessness. In his majority opinion for Grants Pass v. Johnson, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the local ordinance in Grants...
In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in legal terms. Months later, in a piece that has reached somewhat of a cult-status in the discipline, some of the...
A Response to the Symposium on Struggles for the Human On the anniversary of publication of Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press, 2024), it is a pleasure to respond to the contributors to...
In an essay crafted in 1964, “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” Hannah Arendt reflects on a set of moral issues concerning our capacity to judge.[1] The difficult questions she raises in this essay remain pertinent in our own genocidal times unfolding...
While Kantian’s are concerned with duties, Aristotelians with human flourishing and consequentialists with aggregating value, Simone Weil’s central concern is the distance that separates us. Naturally, she has much to say about duties and human flourishing, but these...
“Yes, and here’s to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don’t even care” Leonard Cohen, Night Comes On When a human being is attached to another by a bond of affection which contains any degree of necessity, it is impossible that he should...
