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Million Dollar Blocks

by Life of the Law

  • October 3, 2012

From NPR: “No one had ever actually sat down and gotten the home street address of everyone going into prison and jail, as well as all the background information about their age and their employment status,…

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Fashion Law

by Life of the Law

  • September 25, 2012

In recent years music and film have seen many legal battles over copyright violations. From the sample battles in hip-hop to everyday folks using big studio movie clips in their own You Tube videos.  Those court cases…

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So what does that mean for juries?

by Life of the Law

  • September 20, 2012

Today’s New York Times carried an op-ed by Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law Professor and LOTL contributor (see his Inquiring Minds post). Sunstein collects studies of opinion and polarization and argues that contrary to conventional wisdom,…

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What is law?

by Life of the Law

  • September 17, 2012

There’s plenty of time to discuss what the “life” in “Life of the Law” is.  But what about the “law”?  For that, nothing might be as helpful as this clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm. It…

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Inspirations: The Arsenal of Exclusion

by Life of the Law

  • September 17, 2012

99% Invisible, an amazing podcast on design and architecture, has done a number of episodes that we here at Life of the Law wish we could have done ourselves.  One great example is on the…

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Inquiring Minds: Emily Bazelon

by Life of the Law

  • September 15, 2012

  Inquiring Minds asks people to choose a book, article, film, radio story, or other media piece that changed the way they think about law and how it works in society. TLOTL by Emily Bazelon…

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Inspirations: Away from home

by Thomas Hilbink

  • September 15, 2012

“Exile” is a This American Life story I heard in 1999 while driving to visit my grandmother in Holland, Michigan. It always stuck with me as a remarkable exploration of the human side — and…

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Logic and Experience

by Life of the Law

  • September 11, 2012
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr at his desk
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr at his desk

“The Life of the law has not been logic. It has been experience.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We took our project’s name from this very famous quote by one of the giants of American law. …

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Inquiring Minds: Mark Weiner

by Mark

  • September 8, 2012

Inquiring Minds asks people to choose a book, article, film, radio story, or other media piece that changed the way they think about law and how it works in society. TLOTL Placing Law in Global…

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Inquiring Minds: Cass Sunstein

by Life of the Law

  • August 29, 2012

Inquiring Minds asks people to choose a book, article, film, radio story, or other media piece that changed the way they think about law and how it works in society. TLOTL By Cass Sunstein When…

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