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Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.
Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.
Saree MakdisiMay 10
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Jessica RizzoMay 4
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Austin Frerick’s “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food.”
Devin Thomas O’SheaApr 29
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
Julien CrockettFeb 29
Anna Katharina Schaffner reviews Manon Garcia’s “The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex.”
Anna Katharina SchaffnerFeb 22
Elizabeth L. Silver discusses four important court cases that have defined the landscape of women’s rights in the United States.
Elizabeth L. SilverJan 23
Andrew Koppelman reviews Stephen Vladeck’s “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”
Andrew KoppelmanSep 27, 2023
Judge Brad Seligman reviews Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher’s critique of civil litigation, “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50...
Brad SeligmanSep 24, 2023
Elle Kurancid writes about the aftermath of the earthquake in Syria, with documentary photographs by Walaa Alshaer.
Elle Kurancid, Walaa AlshaerSep 21, 2023
Jessica Rizzo reviews three new books discussing where NFTs came from, where they are going, and whether we should follow—Amy Whitaker and Nora...
Jessica RizzoSep 12, 2023
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Miriam Aroni Krinsky’s “Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor” and discusses the “progressive...
Laurie L. LevensonAug 30, 2023
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New...
Stephen RohdeAug 13, 2023
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Stephen RohdeAug 4, 2023
J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives.
J. D. ConnorJul 22, 2023
Hector Villagra reviews Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable.”
Hector VillagraJul 14, 2023
Tim Hirschel-Burns reviews Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction.”
Tim Hirschel-BurnsJul 13, 2023
Gabriel J. Chin reviews Peter Irons’s “White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism,” a study of the history of racism in the laws of the United...
Gabriel J. ChinJul 4, 2023
Frank Bergon argues that bad grammar is driving our gun problem, via the Supreme Court’s reading of the Second Amendment.
Frank BergonJul 2, 2023
Dana Garcetti reviews Allen Goodman’s “Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice,” in which the author, a former...
Dana GarcettiJun 17, 2023
Jason E. Smith reviews Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan’s “States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System.”
Jason E. SmithJan 4, 2023
Roslyn Fuller reviews Jedediah S. Purdy‘s “Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening ― and Our Best Hope.”
Roslyn FullerDec 29, 2022
Paul Finkelman reviews Brad Snyder's "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment."
Paul FinkelmanDec 13, 2022
Stephen Rohde reviews Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”
Stephen RohdeNov 23, 2022
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linnemann’s penetrating new book, “The Horror of Police.”
Jarrod ShanahanOct 31, 2022