Life, Prison, and the Pursuit of Happiness
ALICE GOFFMAN’S On the Run couldn’t be more aptly titled. In the Philadelphia suburb that is the focus of Goffman’s powerful sociological study...
ALICE GOFFMAN’S On the Run couldn’t be more aptly titled. In the Philadelphia suburb that is the focus of Goffman’s powerful sociological study...
Priyanka KumarAug 22, 2014
The Supreme Court has made marriage equality the norm, but not the way anyone thought they might.
Don FranzenAug 14, 2014
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Lisa Bloom’s two-in-one book Suspicion Nation.
Laurie L. LevensonAug 4, 2014
Don Franzen talks to Lisa Bloom about Trayvon Martin.
Don FranzenAug 4, 2014
Stephen Rohde parses Richard A. Epstein's preference for the “classical liberal” interpretation of the US Constitution.
Stephen RohdeJul 28, 2014
We need a serious conversation about the relation of social media to the judicial system; this book is not it.
Dorothy WolpertJul 21, 2014
LARB's legal affairs editor, Don Franzen caught up with Glenn Greenwald during his hectic day in Los Angeles and had a five-minute chat about Edward...
Don FranzenJun 20, 2014
Aviva Chomsky’s dense, academic book comes to one simple conclusion: “the way US immigration laws operate is absurd.”
Sara CamposJun 10, 2014
The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers.
Jessica PishkoJun 2, 2014
No Place to Hide misses an important opportunity to show where laws and policies diverge.
Allegra L. FunstenMay 28, 2014
Second Amendment activism is very easy to trace not to the founders, but to the shift to the right beginning with Reagan, and the change in the NRA’s...
Anne RichardsonMay 24, 2014
Justice Stevens says it’s time to change the constitution.
Marc CooperMay 13, 2014
One of the First Amendment’s staunchest defenders sums up his case.
Jim LaffertyMar 11, 2014
Jan Mieszkowski reviews The Death Penalty, which contains the first 11 sessions of Derrida’s two-year seminar on the subject.
Jan MieszkowskiMar 5, 2014
SINCE I WRITE a lot about affirmative action, a number of my friends told me about Randall Kennedy’s new book even before it appeared, urging me to...
Richard SanderDec 15, 2013
Not all discrimination is bad.
Don FranzenDec 15, 2013
Drone warfare: Medea Benjamin argues stridently, and not always effectively, against it.
Don FranzenDec 5, 2013
STORYTELLING is at the heart of a trial lawyer’s trade — to win a trial you have to tell and sell the best story. A case, in fact, is a battle...
Don FranzenOct 26, 2013
The story of the founding mothers of the legal profession.
Laurie L. LevensonJul 25, 2013
The silent war.
Ben Klay, Don FranzenJun 13, 2013
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle (Politics) THIS NATION'S FOUNDING MANIFESTO, the...
Don FranzenMar 26, 2013
AKHIL REED AMAR IS STERLING PROFESSOR of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and occasionally a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia...
Don FranzenDec 9, 2012
ANTONIN SCALIA IS THE SENIOR Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court — he was appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. Considered...
Don FranzenOct 1, 2012
The inevitability of politics.
Don FranzenJun 29, 2012