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In the advisory opinion of July 25, 2025, Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) took a bold step to declare that human rights law is the most relevant...
November 5, 2017, marked a century since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the famous Buchanan v. Warley case, striking down racial zoning in the United States. With more than 100 years of land use practices...
In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary...
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about. We are all corpus linguists, i.e. we use specialist software to study...
Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started...
Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture,...
The basso continuo of these essays is Euclid’s algorithm. The author wants readers to discover that almost every page contains the algorithm either visibly or implicitly or in disguised forms. Readers...
In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic and legendary, catapulted Orvieto into the...
In 1947, Winston Churchill—no longer Prime Minister but still sparring from the backbenches—famously quipped that democracy is “the worst form of government except for all the others that...
My new book, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan, challenges the conventional wisdom that law and courts play marginal roles in Korean and Japanese politics. In the...
Émile Zola’s Le Rêve—The Dream, in English—appeared in book form in October 1888. It was a strikingly slender novel, by Zola’s standards—the shortest of the twenty volumes that would make...
During the 2022 Oscars ceremony, actor Will Smith famously walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face, in response to a joke about the former’s wife. Pictures of the slap...
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