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Winter of Love – Transcript

by Aviva DeKornfeld

• June 28, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: This summer, we’re changing things up a bit at Life of the Law. We’re presenting some amazing audio documentaries produced by at universities and colleges around the country. Our first story is from…

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Liberté & Securité – Transcript

by Emma Jacobs

• May 31, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: There’ve been a series of terrorist attacks in Europe, and now France, one of the countries hardest hit, is adjusting to this elevated threat. Last week, the French parliament passed yet another law…

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Recuse Yourself – Transcript

by Chloe Prasinos

• May 17, 2016

Judges are supposed to hear the case before them and make a fair judgement based on the law. But what if the judge has a bias? Maybe a conflict of interest? When should a judge…

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The Hold Up – Transcript

by Ashley Cleek

• May 3, 2016

It’s an election year — which is already pretty rough going — and then in February, Justice Antonin Scalia died. And in a split second, there was a rare opening on the US Supreme Court….

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Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

• April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

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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…

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Revolution in a Cornfield – Transcript

by Ashley Cleek

• March 8, 2016

It’s probably been awhile since you were in first grade. But some things haven’t changed too much. AMBI MONTINI’S CLASS This is Mrs Montini’s class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas. Seventeen…

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Juggalos – Transcript

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

• February 23, 2016

Groupies have always been a part of the music scene. The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads. Beatles and Beatlemania. Juggalos like music called horrorcore rap and the main group they follow is the Insane Clown…

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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…

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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…