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LIVE LAW SF: Initial Public Offering

by Life of the Law

• March 21, 2018

This week Life of the Law presents LIVE LAW… stories from people living with the rapid fire shifts that come with tech in the Bay Area, folks who are pushing back against the gentrification and…

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In Studio: Radio Silenced

by Nancy Mullane

• February 21, 2017

What do radio silence, the FCC, net neutrality, President Trump’s first solo press conference, and Richard Wagner have in common? Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. Each month we present an investigative feature report…

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In Studio: Knowledge in a Post-Fact Era

by Nancy Mullane

• January 24, 2017

At Life of the Law, we’re going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that’s taking place about the law. We’re going to ask questions and hopefully get…

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Live Law NSF: Translating (law and social) Science

by Nancy Mullane

• January 10, 2017

The US Constitution sets the rules for how our our society is governed. Lawyers and advocates, legislators and lobbyists, judges and courts work to enforce it, or change it. All the while, legal and social…

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A Fair Fight for a Fair Court: Election Year Special – Part 1

by Nancy Mullane

• November 29, 2016

The 2016 elections are over. But what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and scholars have been taking a hard took at…

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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…

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The Narcoleptic Lawyer

by Yannick Morgan

• October 13, 2015

Yannick Morgan is a lawyer and a graduate of Yale Law School. But before that, he was a sleeper. A great sleeper. Ever know someone to fall asleep at a swim meet … that they’re…

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Drag.net

by Brit Hanson

• May 19, 2015

Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. Sometimes it works and sometimes it goes very, very badly. Welcome to the future of crowdsourced law enforcement.

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Marijuana Rules

by Peter Frick-Wright

• April 20, 2015

Recreational pot has earned the state of Colorado $53 million dollars in tax revenue. All on a drug that, according to federal law,
is still illegal. How does a marijuana business navigate all the uncertainty? Find out this week, on Life of the Law.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law?

by Life of the Law

• October 13, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… The dispute over a Texas Voter ID law has attracted the interest of the Obama administration, which on Sunday submitted pleas to the Fifth Circuit…