Boston Criminal lawyer Rudy Peirce discusses the 'personal recognizance' n Massachusetts and how it relates to Boston's poor being able to post bail.
Brown Sugar in concert. Program consists of two halves, the first a performance by the vocalist group Brown Sugar backed by the instrumental group Message to the People. The second offers a variety of segments focusing on political and social issues, including: the political career of Gary, Indiana, Mayor Richard Hatcher, the adoption of Black and interracial children by African American families (as facilitated by the Boston based organization Black Recruitment Committee for Adoption and Foster Care), a Say Brother editorial on abortion rights by professor and historian A.B. Spellman, 'Access' (on tenant rights as per Boston law), and the 'Community Calendar.' Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
A.B. Spellman comments on the pardon granted to President Richard Nixon. Say Brother presents the musical group Tavares, who perform in-studio before an audience. The Tavares brothers (Arthur Tavares, Ralph Vierra Tavares, Perry Lee Tavares, Antone Tavares, and Feliciano Tavares, aka Chubby, Tiny, Ralph, Pooch, and Butch) sing 'Am I Too Late,' 'Strangers in Dark Corners,' 'If That's the Way You Want It,' and 'Check It Out' with supporting musicians. Additional program segments include a mime performance by Halim Adbur Rashid (Fred Johnson), 'Access' (on the services of the Roxbury Defenders Committee, Inc.), 'Information' (on rent control and rent increases), 'Blast From the Past' (with an excerpt from a 1968 Say Brother interview with musician Smokey Robinson), 'The Word' (with commentary by professor and historian A.B. Spellman on the recent pardon granted by President Gerald Ford to President Richard Nixon on September 4, 1974), the 'Community Calendar,' and 'Commentary' by Producer Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
A Unified Theory of a Law is an introduction to the study of law. Yet, it is more than just an introduction. It will upgrade the fidelity of the model of a law that you currently use to represent the laws that run around outside your head in the legal world.
It is powered by the insight that legal fission is possible. The physics of legal fission postulate that a law can be split into two components 1) its words and 2) its structure. They exist independently of each other. Together they constitute a law. While many have taken notice of the words of a law, knowledge of the structure of a law is still rare. The words, like ornaments, adorn the structure of a law. The words change; but the structure stays the same. Like the DNA of a cell, the structure of a law repeats itself over and over again in every instance of a law. To generate a law's meaning, both its words and its structure cooperate. Anyone who wishes to push meaning into or pull meaning out of a law must be mindful of a law's structure. Any failure to respect the structure of a law generates inscrutable legalese and legal misunderstanding.
At the heart of A Unified Theory of a Law is a 3 by 3 grid called the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law. Its 9 cells capture everything - yes, that's right - everything that goes on under the surface of a Lawmaker's intellect during the process of making a law. Anyone of ordinary intelligence can learn the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law. Once understood, even the greatest legal genius can understand a law no better than you. Why? Because there is nothing more to learn about a law! The boundaries that define our knowledge of a law have been discovered and explored. They are now well understood. Beyond the boundaries is nothing. All knowledge about a law exists within a 3 by 3 grid. Outside the boundaries, as the mapmakers of old would say, there be dragons.
