William J. Stuntz

Conservative Christians have in recent years devoted a good deal of energy and attention to criticizing lawyers and courts. Though some of the criticism seems overheated to me, a lot of it is richly deserved, and I have engaged in my share. But as we criticize, even rightly, I fear we miss . . . . Continue Reading »

Legally speaking, we live in strange times. Late-twentieth-century American law has a strong libertarian streak––stronger than ever in our past and getting stronger all the time––which shows up in the law’s treatment of contentious moral topics like abortion, medical treatment for the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is common in some circles to say that our legal system worries too much about rights and not enough about responsibilities. The complaint is a fair one, as far as it goes. But the real problem with rights—and with what Mary Ann Glendon calls “rights talk,” a kind of talk that dominates . . . . Continue Reading »