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Jesus vs. Allah
The fight over God's secular title.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 22, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The Real Price of Trying KSM
Defense lawyers will inevitably create bad law.  
David Feige   Nov 19, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Holder Laughed
The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 18, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Manhattan Transfer
The right's nonsensical arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 16, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Supreme Court Dispatch, Eh
How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 13, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Forever Young
Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 05, 2009   Jurisprudence  
All Locked Up
Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?  
Amy Bach   Nov 04, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The Bench in Purgatory
The new Republican obstructionism on Obama's judicial nominees.  
Doug Kendall   Oct 26, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The Gasbags Who Would Break Up Balloon Boy's Family
Why you shouldn't be able to cancel a family the way you can cancel a TV show.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Oct 23, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Now a Black Firefighter Is Suing New Haven
Did the Supreme Court leave the city holding the bag in last summer's Ricci ruling?  
Richard Thompson Ford   Oct 23, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?
How does fair-use law work, anyway?  
Tim Wu   Oct 21, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Dead Law Walking
Why are New York cops arresting gay people on charges ruled unconstitutional 26 years ago?  
Daniel Redman   Oct 20, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Bringing Roman Polanski to Heel
The Los Angeles district attorney explains why he's going after the director.  
Emily Bazelon   Oct 15, 2009   Jurisprudence  
You Can Check Out Anytime You Like, but You Can Never Leave
At least 17 detainees have been ordered released from Guantanamo but are stuck there.  
Christopher Flavelle   Oct 12, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Do Women Make Better Judges?
Asked and answered—with data.  
Stephen Choi, Mitu Gulati, Mirya Holman and Eric Posner   Oct 02, 2009   Jurisprudence  
How Often Do Women Falsely Cry Rape?
The question the Hofstra disaster left dangling.  
Emily Bazelon and Rachael Larimore   Oct 01, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Save the Google Book Search Deal!
It's the best way to make out-of-print books widely accessible.  
Tim Wu   Sep 29, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Spoonfuls of Sugar
Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 26, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Baby, You Can't Drive Your Car
A judge's favorite punishment for drunken drivers—ignition-interlock.  
LaDoris Cordell   Sep 22, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Smeary Lines
The lesson we're not learning from the Hofstra date rape that wasn't.  
Emily Bazelon   Sep 21, 2009   Jurisprudence  
How Liberals Can Win by Losing at the Roberts Court
Three strategies for turning a defeat into a (relative) victory.  
Richard L. Hasen   Sep 14, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Not Innocent Enough
The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 05, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Torture Makes the FBI's Job Harder
Goodwill toward the United States is an agent's best tool, at home and abroad.  
Asha Rangappa   Sep 02, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Halfway There
Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Aug 25, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Judges Who Would Be King
The judiciary is on an unprecedented power trip.  
Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin Jr.   Aug 14, 2009   Jurisprudence  
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