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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 have been tried.” What he feared most were schemes run by self‑appointed “super‑planners” who would tell everyone else what was good for them without oversight. A year later, the Universal Declaration of Human […]
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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 book, I document the emergence of legalistic approaches to governance in the “hard cases” of Korea and Japan, where governance was previously […]
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The first year of Trump’s second term has been a chaotic one for trade, as for so much else. Before inauguration, the President had already threatened tariffs against Denmark to force a “sale” of Greenland. Within days of taking office, he began threatening or imposing illegal tariffs against Colombia, China, Mexico, Canada, all steel and […]
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Before his death on the battlefields of the First World War, the young philosopher Adolf Reinach was a rising star—prime assistant to Edmund Husserl; mentor and friend to a generation from Max Scheler to Edith Stein. Since then, his influence has waned. To be sure, he developed something like speech act theory decades before John […]
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Writing the life of a thinker is a long and difficult process. As an author, one often needs sources to which one can return and which never fail to refresh one’s original interests and revive the spirits, reanimating one’s pen. For me, writing about Neil MacCormick, one of those key sources was hearing MacCormick’s voice. […]
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Exposure to the current media culture in almost any sphere – news, entertainment, business, politics, or technology – involves near constant contact with reporting on, and often barely concealed promotion of, artificial intelligence (AI) as a new and rapidly emerging area of computer engineering. One facet of this coverage is the characterisation of modern AI […]
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The international economic order is in a state of flux. Major political and economic developments are reconfiguring globalization as we know it: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is on life-support, a new era of economic statecraft has sparked confrontations between major trading countries, and domestic backlash has led to the emergence of globalization-skeptical parties and […]
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Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors, and—the subject of this book—lawyers. The worsening rural lawyer shortage is not new. What is new is the idea that we should do something to solve the crisis. […]
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