Category: Law/Justice

Was Emancipation Constitutional?

By James Oakes, New York Review of Books In The Broken Constitution, Noah Feldman argues that the Confederate states had a constitutional right to secede and that Lincoln violated the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves. Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor […]

American teacher is sentenced to death in China for fatally stabbing his 21-year-old girlfriend when she tried to break off their relationship

By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press Shadeed Abdulmateen, originally from Los Angeles, was sentenced to death on Thursday for international homicide in China  Abdulmateen, a teacher at Ningbo University of Technology, met the victim, identified only by her surname, Chen, in 2019 after lying about being […]

Belgium Decriminalizes Prostitution

I believe this makes Belgium the most liberal country in Europe, perhaps anywhere, when it comes to prostitution laws. The closest competitor is probably New Zealand. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason Belgium is the first country in Europe to decriminalize selling and paying for sex. Belgium is decriminalizing […]