What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know—or doesn’t care—about centuries of progress.

In 2020, MPs probing an area of English law that allows anyone to try to prosecute whomever they want made an unsettling discovery.At the time, no one was keeping a record of how many “private ...

The civil adversarial system that developed over centuries in England, and later spread to the U.S. and other colonies, might not work as well as a truth-seeking system.