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What I am pondering with this question is whether nation-states enter into extraterritorial pacts (WTO, NAFTA, EU, MERCOSUR, etc.) solely on the basis of perhaps deriving economic benefit from...
13 January 2015 3,985 31 View
Religious institutions serve both sacred and secular functions. Engaging in familiar religious rituals can provide comfort to immigrants in their newly adopted homelands. However, religious...
04 April 2014 4,329 8 View
This is the argument I made in a presentation at the 2008 “Business Ethics Olympics” of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE), which was held in Cape Town, South...
17 January 2014 4,531 14 View
In this article I argue that the European Court of Human Rights should strictly adhere to the European Convention on Human Rights and stop allowing certain COE member states to circumvent the...
16 November 2013 5,211 4 View
In this chapter from MIGRANT MARGINALITY, I bemoan the homogenization of religions in the western predominantly Christian setting of immigrant host lands. My thesis is that economic incentives...
16 November 2013 2,397 97 View
In my law practice, I prepare advance directives such as living wills for clients who are suffering from mild dementia. Legally, they are deemed competent to make end-of-life decisions about...
09 November 2013 1,824 23 View
On November 6, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral arguments in the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway. The Court will announce its decision in June; however it is already apparent...
07 November 2013 3,211 85 View
This article from earlier in my academic career introduced, what has become a recurring theme in my work. Namely, the chilling effect on religious liberty of laws enacted to bolster the religious...
08 October 2013 8,297 66 View
Are there still “welfare states” with the only difference being that they are no longer the exclusive bailiwick of the pedigreed liberal democracies of the West? I am inquiring about the highly...
12 September 2013 9,381 3 View
In this conference presentation, I talk about Swedes leaving The Church of Sweden; i.e., opting out of an ascribed identity as Evangelical Lutherans MAINLY FOR FINANCIAL GAIN (to save on Church...
08 September 2013 5,441 4 View
In this brief article, I discuss two U.S. Supreme Court cases that allowed federal labeling laws to be overturned by states applying common law fraud concepts. In other words, the safe harbor...
06 September 2013 8,179 3 View
This article discusses the intrusion of federal law into the corporate governance area - an area that was previously the bailiwick of state law. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SARBOX") and...
06 September 2013 813 6 View
In this article (“Not Just Hot Air”), I argue that globalization has resulted in “fluid borders and porous nationalities,” thereby diminishing the role of the nation-state as a definer of who we...
03 September 2013 5,104 3 View
As President Obama loses support for a vindictive strike against Syria, I wonder how one might ethically determine to attack the land where Paul found salvation on the way to Damascus (and thus...
31 August 2013 8,065 5 View
Unlike the U.S., the European Union has been steady in its commitment to tackling the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. However, commitment at the macro-level has not necessarily trickled down...
29 August 2013 1,014 8 View
In the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights (“the Convention”), the 47 European countries constituting the membership of the Council of Europe (COE) profess a common allegiance to...
18 August 2013 1,517 3 View
There is ongoing debate about whether climate change is a natural phenomenon or is attributable to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels or the cutting down of trees...
06 August 2013 8,940 13 View
