Does the U.S. Supreme Court curtail rights and liberties when the nation’s security is under threat? In hundreds of articles and books, and with renewed fervor since September 11, 2001, members of the legal community have warred over this question. Yet, not a single large-scale, quantitative study exists on the subject. Using the best data available on the causes and outcomes of every civil rig...

• Are we in favour of closing the borders of Europe to refugees and immigrants? • Are we in favour of a police super-computer which serves primarily as an instrument to implement this policy of exclusion? • Are we in favour of uncontrolled information exchange between the police and security services? • Are we in favour of giving police and border guards powers to carry out arbitrary “non-suspe...

Belleau begins to answer the question left to the lower courts in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grady. The court opined, in the Belleau case, that Wisconsin’s GPS monitoring program is reasonable, after considering numerous factors, including the purpose of the program, the invasiveness of the search that a GPS poses, studies on sex offender recidivism, and the reasonableness of the se...