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Climate Change, Refugees, and Other Displaced Persons by Matthew Lister (2019).
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Born in the USA: The Battle Over Birthright Citizenship by Nicholas Carroll (2025).
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Defamation in the Age of #MeToo by Adam Slavny (2025).
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Making International Criminal Law Our Own: On the Arrest Warrant of President Putin,Making International Criminal Law Our Own: On the Arrest Warrant of President Putin by Alain Zysset,Alain Zysset (2023,2023).
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Intervention and Revolution by Fernando Teson (2017).
New on Public Ethics: Planning for War’s Aftermath.
David Clark discusses when and why having (or lacking) a postwar plan affects whether going to war can be justified.
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The UK now gives refugees just 30 months' protection before deportation review, repeated every 30 months for up to 20 years.
The government argues this better reflects the true purpose of asylum, but in our latest post, @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social argues it does the opposite.
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Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory? by Daniel Halliday (2020).
New on Public Ethics: Planning for War’s Aftermath.
David Clark discusses when and why having (or lacking) a postwar plan affects whether going to war can be justified.
#Ethics #War #Postwar
From the Archive:
Making International Criminal Law Our Own: On the Arrest Warrant of President Putin,Making International Criminal Law Our Own: On the Arrest Warrant of President Putin by Alain Zysset,Alain Zysset (2023,2023).
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1. The Situation: Increased Urgency and Despair about Addressing Climate ChangeAlthough the urgent need to take significant action to slow, and ideally stop, climate change is clear to all serious observers, there is currently little reason for optimism about achieving these goals. The U.S. has pulled out of the Paris Agreement, and seems determined to make climate policy worse, reducing emission standards for cars, supporting coal, and so on. China, perhaps motivated by a need to keep domestic
It is widely held that violent revolution can be justified to end tyranny. It is equally widely held that foreign intervention is not justified to end tyranny. Intervention is justified, if at all, in a much narrower range of cases – perhaps to halt massacre or genocide, but not to end ‘ordinary’ oppression. On this view, state oppression may be sufficient to furnish internal revolutionaries with a just cause for violence, but simultaneously insufficient to generate a just cause for outside part
In August 2020, Australia’s Prime Minister was asked whether any future coronavirus vaccine would be made mandatory. His reply was “I would expect it to be as mandatory as you can possibly make it”, with exemptions on medical grounds only. After drawing considerable attention, these comments were quickly walked back by the Prime Minister and other senior members of government, all seeking to reassure that a vaccine would not be made “compulsory” after all. Instead, the government would rely on “
The UK now grants refugees just 30 months' protection, after which they face deportation review, repeated every 30 months for up to 20 years. The government claims this reflects the true purpose of re...
