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A Review of USA Network’s BENCHED

by Cindy Hong

• December 11, 2014

When it comes to TV shows about law, USA’s BENCHED is a refreshing departure from the norm.

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How SERIAL Exposes the Limits of the Law

by Kate Leismer

• December 10, 2014

The fact that Serial has captured and sustained a wide audience has sent waves through the podcast and radio world, but it should stir the legal world as well.

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Report Card: How Much Education Censorship Is Too Much?

by Jess Burnquist

• December 9, 2014

A school board overrides the state education department to strike two pages of a science textbook because it doesn’t like them. Is this Russia? Nope — Arizona. Jess Burnquist, a teacher in Arizona, weighs in.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• December 8, 2014

This week in legal briefs: secret charges in Iran, government arsenal distribution, and chimpanzees. We bring you the major legal events from the past week and tell you about all the interesting things to come!

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Creative License: The Political Art of DonkeyHotey

by Stephanie Schroeder

• December 5, 2014

I learned about the caricatures by DonkeyHotey when I saw one of the artist’s creations on the Constitutional Law Profs Blog. Someone remarked on an illustration of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and I was…

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Prison Reports: Feeling Black After Ferguson and Staten Island

by Rahsaan Thomas

• December 4, 2014

Life of the Law is proud to feature contributions to our magazine from inmates at San Quentin State Prison. Today, Rahsaan Thomas reflects on Ferguson from inside. If you know what’s happening right now in Ferguson, Missouri,…

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Cosby: In Memoriam

by Katrin Higher

• December 3, 2014

I was a slow, picky and defiant eater growing up (unless it was Spaghetti-Os or pizza) and spent most nights after dinner alone at the kitchen table after the rest of my family had sauntered…

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Trigger Warnings in Academia: What’s Really at Issue?

by Stephanie Schroeder

• December 2, 2014

If you haven’t been in a college classroom lately, you might not know that many syllabi contain trigger warnings about historical depictions, violent language and graphic images that might appear in class materials and which some…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• December 1, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Egypt is erupting with protests as charges against Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former president, were dropped. He appeared in the courtroom on a stretcher….

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The Limits of the Law: A Review of Ian McEwan’s Latest Novel, The Children Act

by Cindy Hong

• November 28, 2014

British novelist Ian McEwan is interested in the profound consequences of hastily made decisions on the lives of ordinary people. In his most famous work, Atonement, a young girl’s mistaken report of her sister’s rape…