Indeed, we even questioned whether the doctrine existed until the conservative majority discovered it in the Biden years. As we now confront the daily blizzard of President Trump’s executive ...

The doctrine of double effect is sometimes put forward as a defence, but it does not always apply. For example, if an army base in the middle of a city is bombed and a few civilians living nearby ...

there has been a great deal of talk about “mens rea,” the legal doctrine that people generally should not be prosecuted for crimes if they had no criminal intent. These arguments are pretty ...