This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in exiling Arius and his followers the treatment of ‘heretics’ had been taken out of the hands of bishops and become… — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into… — Raymond P. Shafer Copy Share Image
“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.” — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The permanent antidote to crime is education alone, Law ‘n policy are just to ensure its true democratization. More than trying a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I had an affinity for criminal law because I came from that background. I understood it. A lot of lawyers of color… — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
