Decriminalising possession of drugs.

Decriminalising homosexuality in India.

This paper examines the successful fight against the provision in Section 377 of the Penal Code of India that criminalised private consensual sex between adults of the same sex. This law had led to serious discrimination against people engaging in homosexual acts, who were subjected to frequent beatings and blackmail attempts by police, who used the threat of prosecution against them. NGOs work...

Decriminalising sex work in the UK.

The Object of My POSSession

The puzzle addressed here is the appearance of the POSS sign, pictured at right above, in both attributive (1a) and predicative (2b) possessive constructions.2 Patterns in the morphosyntax and semantics of POSS possessives reveal that the underlying function of POSS across these constructions is that of a verbal predicate. The analysis of POSS as a verbal predicate is transparently supported by...

The Titling Role of Possession

This paper proposes two hypotheses on the publicity requirement and the limitations of possession to provide information for legal titling. It then tests these hypotheses by examining how legal systems deal with possession in movable and immovable property, and comparing actual and documentary possession. It concludes that exercise of possession is effective as a titling mechanism when it is ob...

Possession as Linear Knowledge

Epistemic logic analyzes reasoning governing localized knowledge, and is thus fundamental to multiagent systems. Linear logic treats hypotheses as consumable resources, allowing us to model evolution of state. Combining principles from these two separate traditions into a single coherent logic allows us to represent localized consumable resources and their flow in a distributed system. The slog...