Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

What’s Wrong With Human Rights? (6-23-24)

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Every major religion regards masturbation as a sin02:40 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtFJZB27M806:00 What’s wrong with human rights? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/whats-wrong-with-human-rights/14:00 Christopher Caldwell: Against Human Rights, https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-21/against-human-rights18:00 Christopher Caldwell: The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t … Continue reading →

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The Ethics of Violence: Recent Literature on the Creation of the Contemporary Regime of Law and War

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Luke Ford

Amanda Alexander writes in 2021: Abstract: This paper reviews a body of recent literature that interrogates the development and deployment of the contemporary regime of political violence. This literature includes Samuel Moyn’s account of the emergence and dominance of the … Continue reading →

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Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading →

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Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford
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Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading →

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