Dan MaforaOn matters criminal and constitutionalCan criminal offences be created by regulation?7 min read·May 29, 2020----
Dan MaforaThe arcane matter of the ConstitutionThe decline of politics and the rise of law in its stead.13 min read·Nov 25, 2019----
Dan MaforaWhy big cases make for bad law“The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from disciplined legal reasoning … to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”…10 min read·Jul 22, 2019--1--1
Dan MaforaWhat the devil can’t brook“No one will have to call themselves gay. Maybe that’s at the bottom of my impatience with the term. It answers a false argument, a false…4 min read·Jul 11, 2019----
Dan MaforaAn ode to a year of a life in the lawThis is an edited version of a speech I delivered at the Constitutional Court on 29 November 2018.4 min read·Dec 13, 2018----
Dan MaforaAn effigy of sadness“Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don’t know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then…3 min read·Nov 2, 2018----
Dan MaforaOn MemoryIt’s a struggle for memory, a struggle to remember. To put all those fragmented memories together, to remember your scent, your smile, your…2 min read·Apr 12, 2017----
Dan MaforaPiketty on MarikanaThomas Piketty CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY (2013) at 1: ‘Marikana tragedy calls to mind earlier instances of violence. At Haymarket…1 min read·Mar 28, 2017----
Dan MaforaCelestial error and the hell of lesbian murders.“Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?” — William Shakespeare, The…5 min read·Jan 21, 2017----