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A Writer’s Project for the 21st Century: A Conversation with Congressman Ted Lieu

LARB Legal Affairs Editor Don Franzen talks with Congressman Ted Lieu about his 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act....

DON FRANZEN

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What Makes Censors Tick?

Stephen Rohde reviews Robert Corn-Revere's "The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma."...

STEPHEN ROHDE

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What Justice Needs Now

Judge Victoria Pratt’s new book, “The Power of Dignity,” should be mandatory reading for all judges in America....

LAURIE L. LEVENSON

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A Foundation for International Law: On Michael Fleming’s “In the Shadow of the Holocaust”

Mark Ellis reviews the recent book by Michael Fleming, “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice.”...

MARK ELLIS

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“A Brilliant, Holistic Approach”: On Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment”

Tom Dalzell gets to the root of Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment.”...

TOM DALZELL

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The Endless Struggle Between Censorship and Free Speech

Stephen Rohde reviews “Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media” by Jacob Mchangama....

STEPHEN ROHDE

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Russia’s Blatant Violation of International Law

Don Franzen interviews Mark Ellis about the legal implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

DON FRANZEN

AROUND THE WORLD

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POLITICS

May I Quote?

Bryan A. Garner designates Fred R. Shapiro's “The New Yale Book of Quotations” the most "accurate, up-to-date" compilation of quotes yet....

BRYAN A. GARNER

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remembered: An Interview with Amanda Tyler

Brachah Goykadosh talks with Amanda Tyler about her late writing partner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg....

BRACHAH GOYKADOSH

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Grit Paves the Path for Women Law Professors

Brachah Goykadosh reviews “Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors” by Herma Hill Kay....

BRACHAH GOYKADOSH

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Liberal Icon or Right-Wing Renegade?

Stephen Rohde reviews Samantha Barbas’s new biography, “The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade.”...

STEPHEN ROHDE

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“12 Angry Men” Remembered — And Not a Moment Too Soon

John Romano deliberates on "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" by Phil Rosenzweig....

JOHN ROMANO

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Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Redeeming Justice”

A transcript of the panel discussion “Redeeming Justice” — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 28....

GIL GARCETTI, LAURIE L. LEVENSON, JARRETT M. ADAMS

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Not Humane, Just Invisible: A Counternarrative to Samuel Moyn’s “Humane”

Priya Satia reviews Samuel Moyn’s latest book, “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”...

PRIYA SATIA

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A Good Fight?: On Samuel Moyn’s “Humane”

Making war more “humane” only makes it more likely....

RAYAN FAKHOURY

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Time for the Supreme Court to Look in the Mirror

Laurie L. Levenson reviews Erwin Chemerinsky’s new book, “Presumed Guilty.”...

LAURIE L. LEVENSON

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Making Sure Our Rights Stay Right

Stephen Rohde reviews “How Rights Went Wrong,” the new book by Jamal Greene....

STEPHEN ROHDE

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Freedom to Exclude

Eric Foner reviews “Freedom to Discriminate,” Gene Slater’s new history of housing segregation....

ERIC FONER

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A Call to Redeem Justice

Jarrett Adams’s “Redeeming Justice” shines a light on the inequities rife in our criminal justice system....

GIL GARCETTI

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A Call to Re-Embrace Our Privacy

Roslyn Fuller ponders our relationship to privacy in her review of Heidi Boghosian’s “‘I Have Nothing to Hide’: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy.”...

ROSLYN FULLER

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Unequal Justice Under the Law

R. Owen Williams reviews Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner's new legal history, "Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court."...

R. OWEN WILLIAMS

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A Joyous Frolic: On Bryan A. Garner’s “Taming the Tongue”

Tom Dalzell thoroughly enjoys Bryan A. Garner’s latest book, “Taming the Tongue: In the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851).”...

TOM DALZELL

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Context and Consequences: On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us”

Joel Seligman reads “The Words That Made Us,” Akhil Reed Amar’s newly published history of America’s constitutional conversation....

JOEL SELIGMAN

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Trump’s Assault on Asylum: An Opportunity to Reflect on US Humanitarian Values

Sara Campos considers “The End of Asylum” by Andrew Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Philip G. Schrag....

SARA CAMPOS

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