Occupation: Philosopher Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: February 14, 2013
We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands..
What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality..
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to o….
Moral principle is the foundation of law..
Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process..
Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right ….
Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative ….
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as s….