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 Snowden and the NSA, about his hopes and regrets, and about his next download. ¤ Don ...
Aviva Chomsky’s dense, academic book comes to one simple conclusion: “the way US immigration laws operate is absurd.”...
The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers....
No Place to Hide misses an important opportunity to show where laws and policies diverge....
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....
Justice Stevens says it’s time to change the constitution....
One of the First Amendment’s staunchest defenders sums up his case....
Jan Mieszkowski reviews The Death Penalty, which contains the first 11 sessions of Derrida’s two-year seminar on the subject....
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 read it. Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School and an African American, ...
Not all discrimination is bad....
Drone warfare: Medea Benjamin argues stridently, and not always effectively, against it....
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 between stories. Freud famously said every relationship involves at least ...
The story of the founding mothers of the legal profession....
The silent war....
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle (Politics) THIS NATION'S FOUNDING MANIFESTO, the Declaration of Independence, declared “all men” to be “created equal” and latent in ...
AKHIL REED AMAR IS STERLING PROFESSOR of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and occasionally a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Pepperdine Law Schools. The author of four books, including America’s Constitution and The Bill of Rights, Amar ...
ANTONIN SCALIA IS THE SENIOR Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court — he was appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. Considered by many to be the intellectual center of the Supreme Court’s right wing, Justice Scalia is known ...
The inevitability of politics....
JANET MALCOLM'S Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, an expansion of a 2010 New Yorker essay, explores Mazoltuv Borukhova’s trial for the murder of her husband, Daniel Malatov. Malatov was brazenly assassinated in a Queens playground in ...
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