Privacy and Freedom of Speech

At the same time American courts were recognizing a right to one's image -- a "right to privacy" -- that made embarrassing or ...

Liberals and Religious Conscience

With the courts still grappling with challenges to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, conscience-based objections will li...

Stern on "Fanny Hill" and Obscenity Law

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted Fanny Hill and the 'Laws of Decency': Investigating Obscenity in the ...

Sunday Book Roundup

After a week off, we're back with plenty of book reviews for the long weekend. From The New Rambler , there is a review of The Empire T...

Weekend Roundup

Of course, legal historians know all about Law for the Elephant --but an elephant for the law ?  The schedule for Fall 2015 for the Washing...

Weekend Roundup

“[T]he concept of a legal ‘right to work,' harkens back to the early Twentieth Century when this and other substantive due process doctr...