In this article I argue for greater attention to be paid to science fiction within sociolegal scholarship. In the first half of this paper I highlight that science fiction and law are already intertwined, science fiction having been commented on in a number of judicial decisions and law having been the focus of a number of science fiction texts. I then move on to outline how the law and science...

Intellectual property (IP) scholars have long struggled to explain the boundaries of and differences between copyright and patent law. This Article proposes a novel explanation: copyright and patent can be fruitfully understood as establishing a dichotomy between two different groups of human senses. Copyright traditionally involves objects addressed to the senses of sight and hearing while pro...

International law is a peculiar form of global ordering, one marked by the “imperative trying to turn capacity for crude coercion into legitimate authority.” 1 The international law-making system therefore discursively structured around an aspiration “publicness,” 2 commitment secure “some responsiveness claims and interests developed within relevant publics.” 3 As it evident any observer, this...

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Peggy Cooper Davis is the John S.R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics at New York University and Director of its Experiential Learning Lab. Ebony Coletu is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo and Associate Director of the Experiential Learning Lab at New York University. Bonita London is an Assistant Professor of Psychol...

The gun death rates in New Zealand from suicide and homicide are considerably higher than in Australia. In 2005, these gun death rates per 100,000 people were .91 in Australia 1,2,3 and 1.3 in New Zealand.4 Are the higher death rates in New Zealand a result of your country’s relatively relaxed laws in relation to gun ownership? Apart from exceptions such as pistols, military-style semi automati...