Unjust Order: Malaysia's Internal Security Act

Unjust War

I The Traditional Theory of the Just War The traditional theory of the just war comprises two sets of principles, one governing the resort to war (jus ad bellum) and the other governing the conduct of war (jus in bello). One of the central pillars of the traditional theory is that the two set of principles are, in Michael Walzer's words, " logically independent. It is perfectly possible for a j...

The Prevention of Unjust Wars

Interfund borrowing under the Social Security act.

Until recently, the four Social Security trust funds were, by law, kept completely separate, each having its own sources of revenue and paying benefits to specific groups of entitled persons. The original Social Security Act (Public Law 74-271, enacted on August 14, 1935) created the Old-Age Reserve Account, which was later renamed the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund. ...

Defying Unjust Authority: An Exploratory Study

This research explores the psychological factors potentially involved in fostering disobedience to an unjust authority. Our paradigm was modeled after that of the Utrecht Studies on Obedience (Meeus and Raaijmakers European Journal of Social Psychology 16:311-324, 1986) in which participants are ordered to give each of 15 increasingly hostile comments to a participant/victim whenever he fails a...

Typechecking Higher-Order Security Libraries

We propose a flexible method for verifying the security of ML programs that use cryptography and recursive data structures. Our main applications are X.509 certificate chains, secure logs for multi-party games, and XML digital signatures. These applications are beyond the reach of automated cryptographic verifiers such as ProVerif, since they require some form of induction. They can be verified...