What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the Bar Exam, law school graduates must complete a 36-page questionnaire ab...
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What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the Bar Exam, law school graduates must complete a 36-page questionnaire ab...
Since his name entered contention as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz mania has swept the Democratic Party. One CBS poll found that 60 percent of Democratic voters were enthusiastic about the pick, while another 35 percent were...
Since his name entered contention as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz mania has swept the Democratic Party. One CBS poll found that 60 percent of Democratic voters were enthusiastic about the pick, while another 35 percent were...
Ari Peskoe currently serves as the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. His work has primarily engaged with questions pertaining to electricity regulation at the federal and state ...
Ari Peskoe currently serves as the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. His work has primarily engaged with questions pertaining to electricity regulation at the federal and state ...
After trying and failing to receive protection from staff, Keith DeBlasio was raped in prison multiple times by a fellow inmate. Although DeBlasio filed an internal report within the appropriate window, he contested his prison’s initial ruling outs...
After trying and failing to receive protection from staff, Keith DeBlasio was raped in prison multiple times by a fellow inmate. Although DeBlasio filed an internal report within the appropriate window, he contested his prison’s initial ruling outs...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
The last Supreme Court session resulted in numerous 6-3 decisions in which the conversative majority consistently contradicted precedents. While the most outrage was directed at the high-profile decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, there were two other case...
The last Supreme Court session resulted in numerous 6-3 decisions in which the conversative majority consistently contradicted precedents. While the most outrage was directed at the high-profile decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, there were two other case...
Photo Credit: Gieves Anderson Carolina Rubio-MacWright is an artist, immigration lawyer and activist fighting for immigration justice. An immigrant herself, Rubio-MacWright moved to the United States from Bogotá, Colombia at 20 years old to escape v...
Photo Credit: Gieves Anderson Carolina Rubio-MacWright is an artist, immigration lawyer and activist fighting for immigration justice. An immigrant herself, Rubio-MacWright moved to the United States from Bogotá, Colombia at 20 years old to escape v...
Lenni Benson is the Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. She founded the Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal support to refugees and immigrants facing deportation. Benson has w...
Lenni Benson is the Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. She founded the Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal support to refugees and immigrants facing deportation. Benson has w...
James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile justice, incarceration, policing, and education policy, paying particular attention to the racial and socioeconomic ineq...
James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile justice, incarceration, policing, and education policy, paying particular attention to the racial and socioeconomic ineq...
Rachel A. Pickens is a civil-rights attorney who graduated college from Boston University and received her law degree from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. She is Executive Director of the National Police Accountability Project [NPAP], a ...
Rachel A. Pickens is a civil-rights attorney who graduated college from Boston University and received her law degree from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. She is Executive Director of the National Police Accountability Project [NPAP], a ...
As “smart” data-driven approaches have become increasingly common and successful in police departments across the country, a movement to import similar methods into courtrooms has gained traction. Risk assessment scores use data obtained t...
As “smart” data-driven approaches have become increasingly common and successful in police departments across the country, a movement to import similar methods into courtrooms has gained traction. Risk assessment scores use data obtained t...
The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were exposed, despite the fact that a patch for the exploited vulnerability had been available for months prior to the b...
The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were exposed, despite the fact that a patch for the exploited vulnerability had been available for months prior to the b...