Law and Justice

Deadly Symbiosis

Rethinking race and imprisonment in twenty-first-century America.

  • Loïc Wacquant

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

  • Hugo Adam Bedau

Down on Law

On Carl Schmitt, Germany’s most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

  • William E. Scheuerman

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Susie Linfield

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

When Rights Are Wrong

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan
with responses from
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Joel F. Handler
  • Carol S. Steiker
  • Wesley G. Skogan
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Franklin E. Zimring
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Paul Farley
  • Richard H. Pildes

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On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

  • Paul W. Kahn

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

  • Loren Goldner

The Immigrant as Pariah

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Jennifer Gordon
  • Ulrich Preuss
  • Iris M. Young
  • Robin West
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Myron Weiner
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Muzaffar Chishti

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”

  • Cass Sunstein

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

  • Walter Kendrick

Computer Science and Civil Courage

Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?

  • Joseph Weizenbaum
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