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You’ve gone to college, published your dissertation, and now you’re either on tenure track OR you’ve gotten tenure. What’s life like as a legal scholar? Life of the Law traveled to New Orleans for the…

BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation on Eugenics and the Law

by Nancy Mullane

March 28, 2016

Last week, we published STERILIZED, Reporter Jess Engebretson’s disturbing story of Rose Brooks and Lewis Reynolds, two of more than 60,000 men and women forcibly sterilized in the United States by doctors working in state…

Sterilized – Transcript

by Jess Engebretson

March 22, 2016

The law can be a tool for justice, and injustice. Starting in 1907, legislators in dozens of states passed laws that made it legal to forcibly sterilize people considered by some doctors and scientists to…

Sterilized

by Jess Engebretson

March 22, 2016

“If I could have had a family, I probably would have had two or three children. I think about that all the time. And sometimes I just cry because the people done me wrong. I…

Harris County – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

February 23, 2016

Voting is a right and it’s some states it’s pretty easy to do. You register, and then you go to the polling place and mark your ballot. But in more than half the states, laws…

UnDACAmented Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

January 30, 2016

It’s been 20 years since Congress has passed comprehensive immigration reform in the US. So, in 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo granting undocumented immigrants who came…

UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

January 26, 2016

“And they just told me to sign here and here. Well I signed. And I guess I signed for my deportation.” – Luis Luis crossed the border into the US when he was 8 years…

A whole ‘nother world… Live @ San Quentin

by Nancy Mullane

December 25, 2015

On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 more than 200 people filled the pews of the Catholic chapel inside San Quentin State Prison for a first-ever uncensored storytelling event behind the prison walls. Together, inmates and…

Outside the Walls

by Troy Williams

December 15, 2015

“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangbangers do. I’m 49 years…

Live Law Brooklyn – Truth or Dare

by Life of the Law

November 17, 2015

Truth or dare. When was the last time you played the game? We all have stories of playing the game in high school. Maybe it was a Saturday night, and you sat around asking each other…