Before exploring the questions about creativity, subjectivity, and sociotechnical ordering raised in Chapter 1, it is useful to establish a general framework for those inquiries. I have promised an account of the “networked self,” related in some way to something called the “play of everyday practice.” Those terms are not usual in legal scholarship about information policy. For most legal schol...

The two purposes of this essay. general philosophical problem with most versions social libertarianism and how essay will proceed. specific liberty explained by a thought-experiment. positive abstract theory interpersonal liberty-in-itself as ‘the absence initiated constraints on want-satisfaction’, for short ‘no imposed costs’. individualistic liberty-maximisation solves the problems clashes, ...

This review essay considers Adrian Vermeule’s The System of the Constitution and Richard Epstein’s Design for Liberty. Vermeule’s contribution to the study of constitutions applies some essential tenets of systems thinking that are only barely evident in legal analysis and almost nonexistent in political science, and so if the book is widely read in both fields it has the potential to alter the...

Treating the confused patient in a general hospital presents legal and ethical challenges for clinicians. The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, as a safeguarding organisation, has developed a body of knowledge and guidance on these matters. This paper summarises some of the advice and guidance we have given and directs clinicians to other relevant documents. Visits to patients receiving t...

The similarities and differences between ethics, morality and law is complex and a matter of considerable disagreement. Some have argued that law properly targets immoral or unethical conduct. Those who defend the liberal view that law should not be used to prohibit immoral conduct that does not harm others need not be legal positivists. While liberals want to restrict the law from forcing cert...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic exposed sports administrators’ lack of crisis management preparedness and athletes, coaches, support staff’s mental for a pandemic. Sports administrators were in the unenviable position having to protect health their staff, wider population by preventing spread disease with restrictive policies, such as bio-bubbles quarantines, while at same time not restricting a...

INTRODUCTION More than any other area of emergency medicine, legal issues are paramount when caring for an agitated patient. It is imperative to have a clear understanding of these issues to avoid exposure to liability. These medico-legal issues can arise at the onset, during, and at discharge of care and create several duties. At the initiation of care, the doctor has a duty to evaluate for co...