Law and Justice

Justice Roberts Should Visit an Abortion Clinic

The buffer zone decision is wonderfully logical but also divorced from real experience.

  • Simon Waxman

Campus Gun Control Works

Despite recent shootings, schools, including college campuses, exemplify the success of gun control.

  • Evan DeFilippis

Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

Is it naïve to see whistleblowing as a form of civil disobedience?

  • William E. Scheuerman

Trench Democracy in Criminal Justice #2: An Interview with William DiMascio

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

  • Albert W. Dzur

On the Job: Debating Sex Work

Sex work may be a profession, but that doesn’t make it a source of empowerment.

  • Michaele L. Ferguson

Gangsta Folk

If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted in many folk and country songs?

  • Simon Waxman

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Trench Democracy in Public Administration #2: Interview with Andrea Arnold

Decatur, Georgia: a town where citizen participation plays a significant role in the daily life of government.

  • Albert W. Dzur

Tsarnaev: Dismantle the Gallows

Granting mercy is among humanity’s hardest tasks.

  • Simon Waxman

Trench Democracy in Public Administration: an Interview with Kimball Payne

Study circles for race and racism in Lynchburg.

  • Albert W. Dzur

Suffering and the Second Amendment Debate

Should gun deaths be spoken about in the debate about gun control?

  • Simon Waxman

Out of Alignment

What We Find in Unusual Alliances on the Supreme Court

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Trench Democracy in Criminal Justice: an Interview with Lauren Abramson

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

  • Albert W. Dzur

The Supreme Court’s Docket Addresses the Washington Gridlock

The framers of the Constitution did not anticipate political parties.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Drone Victims Testify Before Congress

A Pakistani family demands acknowledgment of their grandmother's death.

  • Beenish Ahmed

Racial Preferences Are Fair—and They Work

An interview with Randall Kennedy.

  • Andra Gillespie
  • Randall L. Kennedy

Your Body, Their Property

Who owns human tissues?

  • Osagie K. Obasogie

A Moveable Court

In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

When Kids Are Sex Offenders

  • Sally Mairs

You Won’t See This on TV

The truth about America’s broken criminal justice system is significantly more interesting than scriptwriters’ fiction.

  • Seth Abramson

Extremely Local

The Unique American Obsession with Small-Scale Government

  • Claude S. Fischer

They Know Where You Are (But They Shouldn’t)

Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?

  • Neil M. Richards

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Two Objections to Slavery

  • Elizabeth Anderson

High in Uruguay

The South American Country May Soon Be the First in the World to Officially Cultivate and Distribute Marijuana

  • Michelle García

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

  • Karin Andert
  • Niko Kohls
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