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Breaking Down the Law Episode 4: SLANDER!

by Graham Gremore

• May 24, 2013

In this exclusive LOTL video series, cartoonist Graham Gremore breaks down the law.

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10 Things Every Juvenile Prison Should Do

by Terry Schuster & Will Harrell

• May 22, 2013

Will Harrell, J.D., LL.M. is the Founder and Director of the Justice Collaborative, a consulting firm on criminal and juvenile justice reform initiatives.  He has been a reformer of criminal and juvenile justice systems in…

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An Easy Mistake

by Lucas Mills

• May 17, 2013

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Practicing Law in My Dreams

by Irving Morris

• May 16, 2013

Irving Morris litigated civil rights cases for fifty years before retiring in 2001. His career included over four decades participating in the desegregation of Delaware’s public schools, and his 2011 book The Rape Case chronicles a…

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Wait, What? No Duty to Rescue

by Gilad Edelman

• May 14, 2013

In Wait, What?, our law student contributors share unexpected lessons from law school. Here, Gilad Edelman writes on the duty to rescue (spoiler alert: there is no such thing).  A pillar of every first-year law…

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Florida v. Jardines and Politics on the Supreme Court

by Luke Gehman

• May 9, 2013

Luke Gehman is a member of Professor Patrick Schmidt’s Civil Liberties class at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. This article is part of an ongoing series of submissions written by students and selected for publication on…

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Breaking Down the Law Episode 3: How to Divorce Your Parents

by Graham Gremore

• May 6, 2013

In this exclusive LOTL video series, cartoonist Graham Gremore breaks down the law.

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Two Reviews of The Play about Justice Harry Blackmun

by Anna Lee and Ross Bronfenbrenner

• May 3, 2013

Anna Lee and Ross Bronfenbrenner are students at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Catering to Its Audience I don’t remember when I began to recognize the importance of Roe v. Wade. Until high school,…

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A Case by Any Other Name …

by Aaron Zelinsky

• May 2, 2013

Some of our greatest writers – Shakespeare, Dickens, and J.K. Rowling – are also our greatest namers. The sobriquets they’ve invented are fun, memorable, and often tell us a bit about an individual’s personality or…

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Living Under DOMA: Returning to the U.S.

by Katherine Thompson

• April 30, 2013

Katherine Thompson continues her story of fleeing the U.S. with her non-U.S. citizen girlfriend Jodi so that Jodi’s immigration status can remain legal. In the last segment, Katherine and Jodi arrived in Canada but didn’t surrender Jodi’s I-94, which…