On matters criminal and constitutionalCan criminal offences be created by regulation?May 29, 2020May 29, 2020
The arcane matter of the ConstitutionThe decline of politics and the rise of law in its stead.Nov 25, 2019Nov 25, 2019
Why 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.”…Jul 22, 20191Jul 22, 20191
What 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…Jul 11, 2019Jul 11, 2019
An 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.Dec 13, 2018Dec 13, 2018
An 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…Nov 2, 2018Nov 2, 2018
On MemoryIt’s a struggle for memory, a struggle to remember. To put all those fragmented memories together, to remember your scent, your smile, your…Apr 12, 2017Apr 12, 2017
Piketty on MarikanaThomas Piketty CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY (2013) at 1: ‘Marikana tragedy calls to mind earlier instances of violence. At Haymarket…Mar 28, 2017Mar 28, 2017
Celestial 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…Jan 21, 2017Jan 21, 2017
