LAW WAL(L)

We build too many walls and not enough bridges-- Isaac Newton

Laws can be twisted under the pression of:

• Private interests (for the benefit of a few)

• …

After junk food & junk bonds; junk laws:SOPA / PIPA / CISPA / ACTA / TPP / ITU / TAFTA

Laws can also be twisted under the pression of:

• Private interests (for the benefit of a few)

• New technologies• …

Address = ad + directus / rectus / rexThe word refers to a space where both Law & Politics applyOld address King cross road, 9New address newspace.topology@web.net

It is absolutely necessary that a new kind of law emerges in this new space and only into this space. All the new types of law were born in that same way. Including the Roman laws.

Looked first to the courts and the legislatures to try to get them to do something to make the system make more sense. It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions means that policymakers here will not understand this until it's too late to fix it. So, we need something different (…)http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

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Laws can also be twisted under the pression of:

• Private interests (for the benefit of a few)

• New technologies• Passion• …

US Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone called the Nurembergtrials a fraud. "[Chief US prosecutor] Jackson (…) wrote. "I don't mind whathe does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is runninga court and proceeding according to common law. This is a little toosanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas.”Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas charged thatthe Allies were guilty of "substituting power for principle" at Nuremberg."I thought at the time and still think that the Nuremberg trials wereunprincipled," he wrote. "Law was created ex post facto to suitthe passion and clamour of the time.”http://www.sunray22b.net/war_trials.htm

IPR & patents also have negative effects

Patents actually feed the financial bubble because they are valued as intangible assets in the balance sheets of companies, which serve as a basis for assessing the value of a security on the market. The more a company holds patents, the more it gives the illusion that shareholders have an asset valuable on the market.http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ipstats/en/wipi/pdf/941_2012_section_a.pdf

Inflation does not only hit money

1936 2,599 pages1956 10,528 pages1966 16,850 pages1978 36,487 pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_to_Choose, p. 176

There are now more than 34,000 legal acts in the EU. There are also 12,000 Court verdicts and 52,000 international standards.

84% of all laws (for the EU-countries) come from the EU itself.

http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2009/06/what-percentage-of-laws-come-from-the-eu/ - http://en.euabc.com/word/2152

French Civil Code – number of pages

The more laws, the less justice

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The absence of a stable legal framework also inflicts lots of damages

An elite minority enjoys the economic benefits of the law and globalization,while the majority of entrepreneurs are stuck in poverty, where their assets–adding up to more than US$ 10 trillion worldwide– languish as dead capitalin the shadows of the law.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar