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In a recent issue of Futures, I concluded an essay on the futures of the courts and law with an ancient Chinese poem which I first heard read by the Chief Justice of the Courts of Singapore, Yong Pung How. The poem said that one of the signs of a well-governed polity is that “the courts of justice are overgrown with grass” (Dator 2000). I have also been known to argue passionately that, while some polities are closer to being democratic than others, no current system is democratic; that true democracy lies in the future, most likely as enabled by some forms of electronic direct democracy (Dator 1999).
Published as “Judicial governance of the Long Blur,” Futures, Vol. 33, No. 2, January 2001 181–197
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Dator, J. (2019). Judicial Governance of the Long Blur. In: Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time. Anticipation Science, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17387-6_31
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