Law and Justice

Massive crimes are never simply domestic

They cross borders and affect other states.

  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo

The Slave Trade on Trial

Lessons of a great human rights–law success.

  • Jenny S. Martinez

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

  • Joseph Nevins

Rules of Engagement

Why military honor matters.

  • Elaine Scarry

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Six Ways to Reform Democracy

Creating a more productive politics for the future.

  • Luis Ricardo Fraga
  • Archon Fung
  • Heather Gerken
  • Samuel Issacharoff
  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • Alex Keyssar

Memory Place

Argentina’s campaign against the past

  • Marc B. Haefele

The Drifters

Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal

  • Jon D. Hanson
  • Adam Benforado

A World Without Race

Does black nationalism have to go too?

  • Dorothy Roberts

The Right Fight

Enlisted by the feds, can police find sleeper cells and protect civil rights, too?

  • Daniel Richman
with responses from
  • David A. Harris
  • Bob Barr
  • Edward Rubin
  • William J. Stuntz
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • David A. Sklansky
  • Elizabeth Glazer
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • Corey Robin

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

  • Colin Dayan

Resolving to Resist

Local governments are refusing to comply with the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry

The People v. Judicial Activism

Who has the last word on the Constitution?

  • Larry Kramer

Healing Rwanda

Can an international court deliver justice?

  • Helena Cobban

The New Humanitarianism

How military intervention became the norm.

  • John Tirman

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

  • Carol S. Steiker

Transparent Citizens, Invisible Government

The double requirement of the Constitution—that people’s lives be private and government actions be public—is turned inside out by the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry

Still Blaming the Victim

In Young, Gifted, and Black, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III do not address the deep structural inequalities that are the chief causes of the achievement gap.

  • Charles R. Lawrence, III

The Secret History of the Magna Carta

Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember.

  • Peter Linebaugh

Civil Liberties after 9/11

We should resist trading off liberties for security for reasons of principle, pragmatism, and self-interest.

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • Philip A. Thomas
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Oren Gross
  • Hiroshi Motomura
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Mari Matsuda

Victims for the Prosecution

A survivor of the embassy bombings on the limits of victim impact testimony.

  • Susan F. Hirsch

The Legacies of Collective Violence

The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law.

  • Helena Cobban

Policing Disorder

Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?

  • Bernard E. Harcourt
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