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Nancy Mullane

  • Feature Episode 139

Release Day [Rebroadcast] + Announcement

by Nancy Mullane

  • September 26, 2018

It’s official, and it’s one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the first…

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  • Feature Episode 137

Law and Society Association Conference Highlights

by Life of the Law

  • June 19, 2018

Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find research on how ‘yes means yes’ policies on university campuses have affected…

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  • Feature Episode 136

New Voices Series: Law Students Take on Immigration

by Life of the Law

  • June 6, 2018

Immigration law is a mystery. Unless you’re an immigrant seeking relief under the law, or you’re an immigration law attorney, it’s an unknown. Then, earlier this year, Karla McKanders, a professor of immigration law at…

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  • Feature Episode 135

In-Studio: Peril and Promise of Genetic Testing

by Life of the Law

  • May 24, 2018

“In light of what we’ve learned about the role of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 Election, people are now asking new derivative questions about other entities that are holding data or information about…

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  • Feature Episode 134

GATTACA REVISTED: Up the Borrowed Ladder

by Tony Gannon & Andrea Hendrickson

  • May 10, 2018

“Consider God’s handiwork: who can straighten what He hath made crooked.” – Ecclesiastes 7:13 “I not only think we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to” – Willard Gaylin Some two…

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  • Feature Episode 133

In-Studio: Police, Race and Fatal Force

by Life of the Law

  • April 16, 2018

Mothers, brothers, sons and daughters in cities across the country are suffering from the loss of a loved one to police use of fatal force. In 2017 The Washington Post reports police officers in the…

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In-Studio Discussion on Police, Race and Fatal Force
  • Feature Episode 132

Death by Police: A Mother’s (audio) Diary

by Zoe Sullivan

  • April 4, 2018

Police throughout the US shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and Madison. One mother of a biracial teen who was shot and killed by a local police officer, kept an audio diary following her son’s death.

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  • Feature Episode 129

Uganda – Part 4: IN-STUDIO

by Nancy Mullane

  • February 22, 2018

“The role of history is critically important, to bring in a more contemporary conversation about what’s going on now. When we disconnect what’s happening in the present moment from historical context, it allows people to…

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Uganda - Part 4: In-Studio
  • Feature Episode 128

Uganda – Part 3: JUSTICE

by Gladys Oroma

  • February 8, 2018

If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would know  — Beatrice Ocwee   If I did…

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  • Feature Episode 127

Uganda – Part 2: ESCAPE

by Gladys Oroma

  • January 24, 2018

“I escaped  because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan.” — Samuel Akena   “We had mothers whose children were crying.  Sometimes government troops and helicopter gunship…

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