Toyed with and Discarded: The Inmate as Human in an Age of Mass Incarceration
The United States currently faces an unprecedented prison crisis.
Law
“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle
Guilty as Charged
Erwin Chemerinsky attempts to save the Supreme Court from its own worst enemy.
Life, Prison, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Above Suspicion
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Lisa Bloom’s two-in-one book Suspicion Nation.
Don Franzen Talks with Lisa Bloom
Don Franzen talks to Lisa Bloom about Trayvon Martin.
An Illiberal Reading of the Constitution
Stephen Rohde parses Richard A. Epstein's preference for the “classical liberal” interpretation of the US Constitution.
Acquittal Fails to Illuminate
We need a serious conversation about the relation of social media to the judicial system; this book is not it.
Just What Is It About Illegal You Don’t Understand?
Aviva Chomsky’s dense, academic book comes to one simple conclusion: “the way US immigration laws operate is absurd.”
Culture Shock: The Problem of Juvenile Justice
The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers.
There’s Something Missing; Maybe the NSA Can Find It
No Place to Hide misses an important opportunity to show where laws and policies diverge.
The Bear Truth (How an Individual Right to Bear Arms Emerged from the Desire for a Well Regulated Militia)
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 sense of their mission at the same time.
Defending the First Amendment from Attacks Coming from Both Left and Right
One of the First Amendment’s staunchest defenders sums up his case.
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