It was Senator Barry Goldwater who said “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” The famed conservative eventually mellowed in his views, but the fact remains he was wrong then and he is ...

Petition circulators play a crucial role in democratic processes, but managing their activities can be challenging for public entities. Balancing petitioners' rights with the need to maintain public ...

Online petitions are often seen as a form of “slacktivism” – small acts that don’t require much commitment and are more about helping us feel good than effective activism. But the impacts of online ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The age of big data is upon us. Data in law is ubiquitous, informative of past decisions and helpful in prognosticating future ...

AN ONLINE petition to ban Donald Trump from making a state visit to Britain this summer is destined to be ignored. The petition has so far been signed by 1.8m people, nearly four times as many as a ...