June 8, 2007

Informed Consent and Malformed Consent

In a free society, each person decides how best to use his or her own physical body.  Government must respect the rights of people to make knowing, voluntary decisions about how to dispose of their own body tissues and organs.  Those rights...

January 23, 2007

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Horses

Sooner or later the Living Constitution will meet bestiality. The sex-with-animals crowd as alternative lifestyle is on display in a film which just premiered at the Sundance Festival. The "internet-based zoophile community" portrayed in th...

June 13, 2006

Foreign Law Fuelling Judicial Activism

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is expected to be handed down this month. The case could quite likely become the most high—profile instance of justices redefining the U.S. Constitution using contemporary foreign law. Ham...

May 16, 2006

Preserving Self-Preservation

This month the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that there is a fundamental right of self—preservation protected by the U.S. Constitution.  In Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach (D.C. Cir. 2006), the D.C. Circuit faced a due process chal...