Law and Legal systems

TagLast edit: 9 Apr 2021 6:08 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Courts, juries, lawyers, Law enforcement, justice, but also the legislative process.

External posts:
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government
A Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement

Related tags: Government, Mechanism Design

Book Review: Working With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC

146 points

26 comments11 min readLW link

Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavance27 Nov 2021 2:06 UTC

179 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC

83 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom

komponisto13 Dec 2009 4:16 UTC

49 points

649 comments12 min readLW link

Preventing overcharging by prosecutors

ChristianKl6 Apr 2021 11:13 UTC

29 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

How factories were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC

134 points

44 comments18 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Is Legal Reasoning Fundamentally Irrational?

ThomasMore7 Oct 2021 8:22 UTC

2 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

Mass_Driver16 Feb 2012 22:31 UTC

68 points

107 comments6 min readLW link

“Should Blackmail Be Legal” Hanson/Zvi Debate (Sun July 26th, 3pm PDT)

Ben Pace20 Jul 2020 4:06 UTC

36 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?

clone of saturn17 Mar 2019 9:16 UTC

33 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Free Speech as Legal Right vs. Ethical Value

ozymandias28 Nov 2017 16:49 UTC

9 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

I Am not a Tax Lawyer

Jacob Falkovich24 Dec 2017 3:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC

44 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Beyond Reasonable Doubt? - Richard Dawkins [link]

Dreaded_Anomaly10 Feb 2012 2:28 UTC

33 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Knox and Sollecito freed

komponisto3 Oct 2011 20:24 UTC

39 points

114 comments1 min readLW link

A Federal Judge on Biases in the Criminal Justice System.

Costanza3 Jul 2015 3:17 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

How would you govern Mars?

Bernhard31 Dec 2020 2:32 UTC

5 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior

johnswentworth24 Jan 2019 18:07 UTC

129 points

24 comments5 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

Yoav Ravid 29 Dec 2020 14:56 UTC
2 points
Suggestion: change to ‘Law and Legal Systems’. i looked for “law” and didn’t find this page, i might have not found it if i didn’t think to look for “legal systems” (which wouldn’t come first to the average person)