In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

When lawyers compare state juvenile justice systems, there is a natural temptation to begin with the visible rule: the minimum age, the availability of diversion, the possibility of transfer to adult court, or the existence of a restorative justice program. Those are important starting points. They are not always the rules that determine what actually [...]

The United States Constitution is the oldest written national charter still in force anywhere in the world, and the men who drafted it in 1787 worked in a predemocratic era, for a country whose leaders did not yet trust ordinary people to govern themselves. Some of what they produced is admirable. Other parts of it [...]

Autonomous systems now write code, diagnose illness, drive vehicles, and trade securities with steadily diminishing human oversight. In the event of damage caused by robots, private law’s classical subjects of natural persons and legal entities are not a perfect match. This blog stems from the idea that while machines do not meet all the criteria [...]

The room is dark, and only a little light enters through the windows. A man stands in the middle of it. He is a dictator, and the fear that has taken hold of him is visible now in a way that the authority of his position has perhaps never allowed anyone to see. Outside, voices [...]

Speaking at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, President Donald Trump made a headline-grabbing commitment: should Republicans maintain congressional control (House of Representatives and the Senate) in the upcoming November midterm elections, he would authorize a $5,000 cash distribution to every American adult, to be called the “Trump Dividend.” The next night, [...]

It has been 80 years since the Nuremberg tribunal released its historic judgment, for the first time ruling that those responsible for the worst crimes known to humankind could be held individually criminally liable under international law.  The United States stood at the center of those efforts—establishing the tribunal, providing a judge and a chief [...]

The US Supreme Court’s emergency 6-3 ruling reviving the Trump administration’s expanded use of the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to cross-reference voter registries represents an alarming new frontier in the erosion of American voting rights. While framed by the executive branch as neutral administrative upkeep, the structural reality of this decision [...]

In May 2026, The Gambia’s High Court acquitted three women prosecuted in connection with the death of an infant following female genital mutilation (FGM). The court found that the child had died from injuries sustained during FGM, but in her ruling, Justice Isatou Janneh upheld a “no case to answer” submission by the defense on [...]