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Florida v. Jardines and Politics on the Supreme Court

by Luke Gehman

• May 9, 2013

Luke Gehman is a member of Professor Patrick Schmidt’s Civil Liberties class at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. This article is part of an ongoing series of submissions written by students and selected for publication on…

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Breaking Down the Law Episode 3: How to Divorce Your Parents

by Graham Gremore

• May 6, 2013

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

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Two Reviews of The Play about Justice Harry Blackmun

by Anna Lee and Ross Bronfenbrenner

• May 3, 2013

Anna Lee and Ross Bronfenbrenner are students at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Catering to Its Audience I don’t remember when I began to recognize the importance of Roe v. Wade. Until high school,…

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A Case by Any Other Name …

by Aaron Zelinsky

• May 2, 2013

Some of our greatest writers – Shakespeare, Dickens, and J.K. Rowling – are also our greatest namers. The sobriquets they’ve invented are fun, memorable, and often tell us a bit about an individual’s personality or…

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Living Under DOMA: Returning to the U.S.

by Katherine Thompson

• April 30, 2013

Katherine Thompson continues her story of fleeing the U.S. with her non-U.S. citizen girlfriend Jodi so that Jodi’s immigration status can remain legal. In the last segment, Katherine and Jodi arrived in Canada but didn’t surrender Jodi’s I-94, which…

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The Right to Education: Peter Cooper's Vision, and What Its Unraveling Represents

by Rina Goldfield

• April 26, 2013

A kind of death occurred at noon on Tuesday, April 23 at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Mark Epstein, the chairman of the school’s Board of Trustees, had called a…

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Lessons from the Founding: The Boston Massacre

by Logan Beirne

• April 25, 2013

As we struggle to heal from the Boston Marathon attacks, we might start by returning to our roots. Our nation was born out of the devastation of another Boston massacre, and our Founders’ response might…

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A Classic Fable

by Lucas Mills

• April 24, 2013

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Compassionate Release: Should Inmates Be Allowed to Die With Family?

by Juan Haines

• April 23, 2013

When the imprisoned suffer from a terminal illness, sometimes prison officials show them kindness and out of compassion, let the person out to die free. How better for a society to treat someone who’s been…

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Breaking Down the Law Episode 2: What's a Subpoena?

by Graham Gremore

• April 19, 2013

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