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30 Jan 2018, 7:50 am by Christine Corcos
To illustrate how customary law norms are shaping modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, this Article examines the recurrence of judicial references to George Orwell’s novel, 1984, within the Fourth Amendment context when federal courts have assessed the constitutionality of modern surveillance methods. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 9:51 am
This is hardly a recent problem, and as George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, the condition is curable. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 5:48 am
Well, it did exactly that — Kindle owners who’d obtained ebooks of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm discovered last week that Amazon had simply deleted those books from their Kindles. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 12:20 pm
[Addendum: Indeed, I would concede that George W. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 10:40 pm by Albert Wan
I recently came across a thoughtful passage from George Orwell — perhaps my favorite writer of all time — in which he offers his thoughts as to the origins of anti-immigrant feelings. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 7:51 am by Sandy Levinson
I wonder what President Obama (or, for that matter, former President George W. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 10:33 am by Paul Caron
The Faculty Lounge: Taxation and Orwell's Animal Farm, by Calvin Massey (New Hampshire): Indianapolis constructed sanitary sewers for a neighborhood and financed the project by a tax assessment of some $9,300 on each benefited parcel. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 12:46 am
Amazon.com has been hit with a class action lawsuit after the company deleted George Orwell books from customers Kindles. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 9:32 am
Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia | George Orwell's 1984 To see the rest of the article, visit the Sex Offender Issues blog. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:37 am
In order to understand the weight that the non-legal rules have on modern slavery—i.e. slavery which is not condoned by the law—George Orwell’s Animal Farm is discussed, as this tale of apparent liberation turns out to be one of de facto, or modern day, slavery. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:37 am by Christine Corcos
In order to understand the weight that the non-legal rules have on modern slavery—i.e. slavery which is not condoned by the law—George Orwell’s Animal Farm is discussed, as this tale of apparent liberation turns out to be one of de facto, or modern day, slavery. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm
From "Politics and the English Language":By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 5:41 am by David Post
[George Orwell on World War I] [Earlier posts in this series: No. 1 / No. 2 / No. 3 ] From George Orwell's novel "Coming Up for Air" (published in 1939): It really was unspeakably meaningless, that time in 1918. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 8:27 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
If you’re going to watch this, try skimming this first: “George Orwell and the Power of a Well-Placed Lie. [read post]