Like most maxims, it sounds better in Latin: Inter arma enim silent leges.  Its message, however, is not merely important, but provides a deep insight into the dynamic of jurisprudence.  At Volokh/WaPo, Ilya Somin writes about Nino Scalia’s extrajudicial observations: In a recent speech in Hawaii, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some interesting predictions … Continue reading “In times of war, the laws fall silent.”