5. Laws can also be
twisted under the
pression of:
• Private interests (for
the benefit of a few)
• New technologies
• …
6.
7. Address = ad + directus / rectus / rex
The word refers to a space where both Law & Politics apply
Old address King cross road, 9
New address newspace.topology@web.net
It is absolutely necessary that a new kind of law emerges in this
new space and only into this space. All the new types of law
were born in that same way. Including the Roman laws.
8. Looked first to the courts and the legislatures to try to get them to do
something to make the system make more sense. It failed partly because the
courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by
which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but
more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions means
that policymakers here will not understand this until it's too late to fix it. So,
we need something different (…)
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html
10. Laws can also be
twisted under the
pression of:
• Private interests (for
the benefit of a few)
• New technologies
• Passion
• …
11. US Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone called the Nuremberg
trials a fraud. "[Chief US prosecutor] Jackson (…) wrote. "I don't mind what
he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running
a court and proceeding according to common law. This is a little too
sanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas.”
Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas charged that
the Allies were guilty of "substituting power for principle" at Nuremberg.
"I thought at the time and still think that the Nuremberg trials were
unprincipled," he wrote. "Law was created ex post facto to suit
the passion and clamour of the time.”
http://www.sunray22b.net/war_trials.htm
13. Patents actually feed the financial bubble because they are valued
as intangible assets in the balance sheets of companies, which
serve as a basis for assessing the value of a security on the market.
The more a company holds patents, the more it gives the illusion
that shareholders have an asset valuable on the market.
http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ipstats/en/wipi/pdf/941_2012_s
ection_a.pdf
16. There are now more than 34,000 legal acts in the EU. There are also
12,000 Court verdicts and 52,000 international standards.
84% of all laws (for the EU-countries) come from the EU itself.
http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/what-percentage-of-laws-
come-from-the-eu/ - http://en.euabc.com/word/2152
18. The more laws, the less justice
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
19. The absence of a stable legal framework
also inflicts lots of damages
20. An elite minority enjoys the economic benefits of the law and globalization,
while the majority of entrepreneurs are stuck in poverty, where their assets
–adding up to more than US$ 10 trillion worldwide– languish as dead capital
in the shadows of the law.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar
