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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends On Compromise and Rotten Compromises by Avishai Margalit. Here is a description:
When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What...
The Download of the Week is The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. Presidential Elections by Richard L. Hasen. Here is the abstract:
Since the mid-1970s, the United States system for the financing of
presidential election...
Sarah Armstrong (Glasgow University) has posted Managing Meaning: The Use of Metaphor in Criminal Justice Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper takes an unorthodox approach to the study of policy, by analysing the use of metaphors in policy...
Patrick J. Glen (Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation) has posted On Learning from Nest-Seeking Honeybees and House-Hunting Ants: Collective Decision-Making and its Implications for a Condercetian Normative Theory of...
Dianne Otto (University of Melbourne - Law School) has posted The Exile of Inclusion: Reflections on Gender Issues in International Law Over the Last Decade (Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the...