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Palliative law

The painkiller: treaties such as the UN Charter hold violence back for a while without curing its cause.

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What Is Law: A Guide to Lawmakers

In most legal and political discourse today, law is often understood in formalistic or institutional terms—defined by who enacts it (parliament), how it is enforced (police and courts),…

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