Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any… — Kenneth Lay Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Canada has treated abortion as just another medical procedure since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the old criminal law. Most… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
Applying criminal law to the exchange of bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims would create a morally shocking result of re-victimizing a… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
“ There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Defenders of the prosecution seem to think that anyone charged with a felony must somehow deserve punishment. That idea can only be… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country.… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
