Basic freedoms, at home and internationally, and how different legal systems draw the line between the state and the individual. Four stories so far.
Every government occasionally wants to do something its own lawyers say it can't. What happens next depends entirely on how independent those lawyers are from the government they're advising.
Read the story →Almost every country with mandatory military service eventually asks what happens when someone's religion or conscience says they cannot serve. Some countries built an answer decades ago. Israel is still writing its answer in real time.
Read the story →Every democracy runs on a strange trust: the people who hold power agree, in advance, that a court can tell them "no." Three governments tried to change that, with very different results.
Read the story →A phone today holds more about a person's life than their house does. Three countries answered the same question about police access to it, and each one drew the line in a different place.
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