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Prison City, U.S.A.

by Jill Rothenberg

• April 4, 2013

The head of Colorado’s prisons was shot and killed last month by a former inmate who the Associated Press reports was erroneously released. Colorado court officials have vowed to review the procedures that allowed the…

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Our New Video Series! Breaking Down the Law

by Graham Gremore

• April 3, 2013

In this exclusive LOTL video series, cartoonist Graham Gremore breaks down the law. Episode 1: The Criminal Process

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TDNCLA: Where Can I Bury My Pet?

by Life of the Law

• March 29, 2013

Dear TDNCLA, Fido has taken a turn for the worse.  I blame myself–I should’ve never let him watch Lassie.  It put all sorts of heroic ideas into his little dog brain.  It looks like Fido…

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Living Under DOMA: Fleeing to Niagara Falls

by Katherine Thompson

• March 27, 2013

I remember the first customs card I ever filled out. I was thirteen, and my family had just spent three months in Australia, where my dad had been working. (Little did I know at the…

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Same-Sex Marriage, Public Opinion, and the Supreme Court

by Jill Weinberg

• March 27, 2013

Yesterday and today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, takes on the issue…

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New Column: Wait, What? Law Students on What Surprises Them

by Gilad Edelman

• March 26, 2013

In this new series, our law student contributors share unexpected lessons from law school.  My tax class (the official name is Federal Income Taxation, but everyone just calls it “Tax”) is a pretty reliable source…

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Reflections of a Law School Beauty Queen

by Sopen Shah

• March 21, 2013

I am not your typical law student. And I’m certainly not your typical beauty queen. I’m currently a first-year student at Yale Law, and previously I was Miss District of Columbia International in 2011 and…

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Gideon’s Anniversary: Agreement on the Problem of Unfair Representation, But What About Solutions?

by Raj Jayadev

• March 19, 2013

This month marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions this country’s criminal justice system has ever known – Gideon V. Wainwright. The case, along with later decisions, cemented the…

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TDNCLA: Can I Secretly Record Phone Calls?

by Life of the Law

• March 18, 2013

Dear Li’l Tommy, Let’s say I have a budding career as a Jerky Boy and I’ve recorded 2 Domino’s Pizza places talking to each other and now I want to get into the highly lucrative rich people…

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Employment Law in a Recession: Gawker’s Unemployment Stories Analyzed

by Christine Clarke

• March 14, 2013

Gawker runs a weekly Unemployment Stories series of letters from readers. The stories are touching and informative. Some themes have been discussed elsewhere ad nauseum–the longer one is unemployed, the less likely one is to…