Law and Justice

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Chasing Lula

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

  • Leonardo Avritzer

The Genetic Panopticon

DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it.

  • Brandon L. Garrett

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

  • Neil M. Richards

Going Nowhere

A new law needlessly brands sex offenders’ passports

  • Judith Levine

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Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic Experts Respond to Nathan J. Robinson

  • Wesley Vernon
  • Michael Nirenberg
  • Nathan J. Robinson

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny

  • Anna Clark

Turkey Descends into Authoritarianism

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

  • Umar Farooq

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Richard Kreitner
  • Sanford Levinson

Speaking in Tongues

Serving time in Richmond City Jail.

  • Dave Byrne

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine

Righteous Indignation in Ferguson

In Ferguson, white violence, exclusively, is justified.

  • Simon Waxman

The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform

Reducing prison populations isn’t enough. We need a new criminal system founded on priniciples of justice rather than fear of crime.

  • Joseph Margulies

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Going Negative

The Importance of Judicial Dissent

  • Thomas Healy

Who Owns Molecular Biology?

The patent war for DNA-editing technology.

  • Yarden Katz

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.

  • Elad Uzan

Executive Secrecy

If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.

  • William Howell
  • Mariah Zeisberg

In Same-Sex Marriage Case, a Contest over History

History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.

  • Nancy F. Cott

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

  • Judith Levine

Teaching Philosophy on Death Row: An Interview with Lisa Guenther

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

  • Albert W. Dzur

Racism: Dumb and Personal / Smart and Structural

Opponents often associate racism with ignorance. But intelligent people promote oppression through colorblindness.

  • Simon Waxman

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

The demands of justice and human rights compel thoroughgoing change, whatever the cost-benefit analysis returns.

  • Marie Gottschalk
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