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Happy 50th birthday, Equal Pay Act! (Brain Pickings) And yet the gender wage gap endures. (NPR) Today, thousands of people are sitting for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), which is administered 4 times a…

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Four Square

by Lucas Mills

June 7, 2013

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Mental Health Services in Prison: A Matter of Public Safety

by Juan Haines

June 6, 2013

About a week ago, around 3 a.m., I was stirred out of my sleep by a man screaming out his cell door, “I’m tired of all this! I can’t do it anymore. Why won’t God…

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College Student Sues Robocaller

by Life of the Law

June 5, 2013

This story was written by students in Political Science 207 at Macalester College: Zach Gilfix, Lucas Smith, Luke Gehman, Elliott Averett, Madelyn Nelson, Ross Bronfenbrenner, Rebekah Keller, and Philip Jamison. “Are you looking to generate 500…

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Death, Taxes, the Green Card Lottery and Amendment One

by Katherine Thompson

May 28, 2013

Katherine Thompson writes for LOTL on her experience living under DOMA. Find her earlier experiences here. This spring has been one of several poignant anniversaries for me, and of annual traditions that remind me of…

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Breaking Down the Law Episode 4: SLANDER!

by Graham Gremore

May 24, 2013

In this exclusive LOTL video series, cartoonist Graham Gremore breaks down the law.

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10 Things Every Juvenile Prison Should Do

by Terry Schuster & Will Harrell

May 22, 2013

Will Harrell, J.D., LL.M. is the Founder and Director of the Justice Collaborative, a consulting firm on criminal and juvenile justice reform initiatives. He has been a reformer of criminal and juvenile justice systems in…

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An Easy Mistake

by Lucas Mills

May 17, 2013

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Practicing Law in My Dreams

by Irving Morris

May 16, 2013

Irving Morris litigated civil rights cases for fifty years before retiring in 2001. His career included over four decades participating in the desegregation of Delaware’s public schools, and his 2011 book The Rape Case chronicles a…

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Wait, What? No Duty to Rescue

by Gilad Edelman

May 14, 2013

In Wait, What?, our law student contributors share unexpected lessons from law school. Here, Gilad Edelman writes on the duty to rescue (spoiler alert: there is no such thing). A pillar of every first-year law…