Abstract Nudge advocates contend that nudges are liberty preserving, while government regulations not. We interrogate assumption by considering negative in the forms suggested proponents of nudges. Specifically, we examine three ways measuring – as freedom choice, absence coercion and interference applying measures to a case study relevant nudge literature: governing healthy food manufacture. s...

Before exploring the questions about creativity, subjectivity, and sociotechnical ordering raised in Chapter 1, it is useful to establish a general framework for those inquiries. I have promised an account of the “networked self,” related in some way to something called the “play of everyday practice.” Those terms are not usual in legal scholarship about information policy. For most legal schol...

power, security, and liberty, considered as the objectives of political sovereignty by some scholars, are also incorporated in naraghi's conception of justice. in his view, political power is a mere instrument for the application of justice, and providing security is a major function of state and can be maintained only in the light of justice. the citizens and members of the islamic societ...

yahya alsamavi is one of iraqi's contemporary poets who has experienced iraqis’ predicament in the years of saddam dictatorship and in the following years of american occupation and the false liberty. he is a committed poet has devoted himself honestly to the iraqi people and their sufferings, while he is himself a victim of resistance on ideals and became homelessness. his true feelings r...

In this paper we study the role of religiosity in political choices such as redistribution and individual liberties. To a standard model with consumption and effort, we add a third good: civil liberties with a cap established by law. More liberties, like divorce, abortion, gender parity, or gay marriage, may be considered good by the secular and detrimental by the religious individuals. With st...

the protection of fundamental human rights at the time of war or peace is an obligation that should be observed at anytime by the states and international organizations. after the second world war, the non-peaceful situations such as occupation and economic sanctions have occurred numerously, which in some cases lasted for more than a decade. unfortunately, the laws governing these situations a...

It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

o consider liberty in relation to the Constitution is to enter upon a subject of some ambiguity. Which Constitution are we to consider? The document has undergone dramatic shifts in its coverage and in its meaning over the course of our history. The unamended document ratified in 1787 had little explicit to say about individual liberties. Aside from provisions such as those barring states from ...