Law Reform After The War

International Law after the Cold War

Reform of the Law

slowly than medicine and this is not in keeping with knowledge about causation and treatment which is the fruit of research. It is ironic that the regulations governing certification still reflect a greater concern for the liberty and good treatment of the patient's body than of his mind, and in some cases they are apparently designed to prevent victimisation by unscrupulous doctors?an attitude...

The Morality of War and the Law of War

There is a general presumption that the law should be congruent with morality— that is, that the prohibitions and permissions in the law should correspond to the prohibitions and permissions of morality. And indeed in most areas of domestic law, and perhaps especially in the criminal law, the elements of the law do in general derive more or less directly from the requirements of morality. I wil...

The Law of War in the War against Terrorism

Serious Tort Law Reform

Tort law is a form of collective intervention into social and economic affairs that carries with it substantial costs, both public and private. These costs include higher prices for goods and services, higher taxes, and the socially undesirable consequences that tort law has on people's behavior such as the failure of companies to develop and introduce products the public wants, the wasteful an...