Lord Acton's famous insight, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," seems to apply to the behavior of nearly all those security personnel at airports across the world...

True, the Attorney General appeared as the proverbial deer in the headlights as he was hammered by the Democratic Senators of the Judiciary Committee...

My Hoover Institution colleague Benjamin Wittes' new TNR online column continues his examination of proposals to amend the Military Commissions Act and related legislation that were passed under the last Congress...

Larry Solum - that's Lawrence B. Solum, John E. Cribbet Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, to you, thank you very much - one of our leading jurisprudentialists and, I'm pleased to say, a dear friend over several decades, publishes, as part of the well-known Legal Theory Blog, a gradually expanding set of basic concepts in legal theory called the Legal Theory Lexicon...