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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....
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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."...
What Justice Needs Now
Judge Victoria Pratt’s new book, “The Power of Dignity,” should be mandatory reading for all judges in America....
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.”...
“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.”...
The Endless Struggle Between Censorship and Free Speech
Stephen Rohde reviews “Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media” by Jacob Mchangama....
Russia’s Blatant Violation of International Law
Don Franzen interviews Mark Ellis about the legal implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....
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....
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remembered: An Interview with Amanda Tyler
Brachah Goykadosh talks with Amanda Tyler about her late writing partner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
Grit Paves the Path for Women Law Professors
Brachah Goykadosh reviews “Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors” by Herma Hill Kay....
Liberal Icon or Right-Wing Renegade?
Stephen Rohde reviews Samantha Barbas’s new biography, “The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade.”...
“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....
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....
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.”...
A Good Fight?: On Samuel Moyn’s “Humane”
Making war more “humane” only makes it more likely....
Time for the Supreme Court to Look in the Mirror
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Erwin Chemerinsky’s new book, “Presumed Guilty.”...
Making Sure Our Rights Stay Right
Stephen Rohde reviews “How Rights Went Wrong,” the new book by Jamal Greene....
Freedom to Exclude
Eric Foner reviews “Freedom to Discriminate,” Gene Slater’s new history of housing segregation....
A Call to Redeem Justice
Jarrett Adams’s “Redeeming Justice” shines a light on the inequities rife in our criminal justice system....
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.”...
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."...
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).”...
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....
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....
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