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I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640, revised, corrected, and adorned with a striking new cover image, has just become the latest […]
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captivates our attention, while we fear that worse is coming. China threatens Taiwan, Iran almost certainly will become a nuclear power before long. The last omnibus funding bill passed by the U.S. Congress – maybe the last for some time, as the House since has flipped against the Biden Administration – left […]
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This blog is the first in a series of five posts responding to the festschrift published in 2021 by my dear colleagues and friends Edward Dove and Niamh Nic Shuibhne and entitled Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie (CUP, 2021). I am incredibly humbled by this act of scholarly […]
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ASEAN in the Limelight The contemporary global vortex of geopolitics and geoeconomy throws one region into sharp relief: ASEAN. Despite a double tribulation of the United States – China trade war and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economies of the ASEAN member states have demonstrated remarkable levels of resiliency. While Asia’s trade volume […]
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Ever since the establishment of the Nuremberg tribunal following the end of the Second World War, the trials against alleged perpetrators of mass atrocities have captured the imagination of the global public. This is not surprising – international trials concern ‘unimaginable’ crimes that ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’, including genocide, crimes against humanity and […]
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“I know a person when I talk to it.” With these words Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines in June 2022, thinking that a Google chatbot had become sentient. Google did not appreciate these headlines, and Lemoine was fired. But what is remarkable about this incident is that, as of 2022, someone in the industry […]
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Warren Buffet famously remarked: ‘only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked’. Given his success with a common-sensical and longer-term perspective on money and investing, his quote can be painfully timely with regard to central banks. For more than a decade, we have witnessed central banks embarking on many experiments […]
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Chimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue, diarrhea, brain fog, and loss of vision in one eye, along with other symptoms. The symptoms were debilitating, preventing Smith from working […]
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