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Tag: Law and Justice

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

Shannon Price Minter, Jennifer L. Levi, Paisley Currah

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

Maryam Jamshidi

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

A. Dirk Moses

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Paul Hockenos

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.

Radhika Sainath

In the aftermath of October 7.

Oded Na’aman

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Will Holub-Moorman

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

James Nelson, Elizabeth Sepper

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

Jonathan S. Gould, Jacob S. Abolafia

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

David McDermott Hughes

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

Brishen Rogers

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

Alex Raskolnikov

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

James G. Chappel

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Ira Katznelson

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Emily Berman

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Christopher Newfield

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Louise Melling

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