Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?
Jan 04, 2019 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Children under 12 will no longer be treated as criminals in the state of California when they break the law, based on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1. Before the law was passed, California had no minimum age...
Legalizing once-illicit substances can have a public health impact
Dec 19, 2018 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Since Californias decision to allow for legal medicinal marijuana in 1996, a number of American states have followed its lead and taken a decidedly different tack in their approach to the market for cannabis. This has...
Prevent counter-terrorism strategy remains unfair on British Muslims, despite Home Office efforts
Dec 19, 2018 15:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Home Office responded to concerns over the effectiveness, legitimacy and transparency of its controversial counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, by making fresh data available for public scrutiny in mid December. The...
Labor promises a comprehensive overhaul of federal environmental framework
Dec 17, 2018 10:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Australia will get the biggest overhaul of its federal environment laws in two decades if a Labor government wins next years election. Labor would create a new Australian Environment Act and establish a federal...
Dec 17, 2018 10:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought renewed attention to workplace sexual harassment. However, the vast majority of allegations go unreported, and those who do report tend to face troubling outcomes. Our new...
The Montréal Declaration: Why we must develop AI responsibly
Dec 16, 2018 13:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
I have been doing research on intelligence for 30 years. Like most of my colleagues, I did not get involved in the field with the aim of producing technological objects, but because I have an interest in the the abstract...
Carlos Ghosn, algorithms and ‘gilets jaunes’: becoming responsible
Dec 16, 2018 13:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In May 2016, a Propublica report showed that an algorithm named COMPAS (correctional offender management profiling for alternative sanctions) used by a US court was biased against black prisoners the program overestimated...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight