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Human Rights

What do you eat for breakfast? A bit of steel cut oatmeal with warm milk. Yogurt with fresh fruit. And when you sit down to eat do you think about where it all comes from?…

HOST INTRODUCTION: When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the time. There’s science to show that teens don’t…

Kids Doing Life

by Brenda Salinas

August 23, 2016

When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the time. There’s science to show that teens don’t think like…

Live Law Philadelphia – Beyond the Walls: Prison Positive

by Nancy Mullane

August 9, 2016

If you’ve had unprotected sex the only way to know if you’ve been infected with the HIV is to take a quick saliva or blood test. It’s free and it’s easy. And then whether you’re…

Clemency – Transcript

by Shandukani Mulaudzi

July 26, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: When we elect a president, we give them extraordinary power, including the power to grant clemency — to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted of a federal offense. A commutation means…

Clemency

by Shandukani Mulaudzi

July 26, 2016

When we elect a president, we give them extraordinary power, including the power to grant clemency — to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted of a federal offense. A commutation means their sentence…

Bail or Bust – Transcript

by Ariel Ritchin

July 12, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: This month, we’re presenting a special summer series of the best and the brightest new voices in investigative reporting and audio production. Ariel Ritchin at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has taken…

Bail or Bust

by Ariel Ritchin

July 12, 2016

Hundreds of people in cities throughout the US have been arrested for participating in Black Lives Matter protests. In Chicago, a judge set one protestor’s bail at $350,000. Bail is the money or pledge of…

Winter of Love – Transcript

by Aviva DeKornfeld

June 28, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: This summer, we’re changing things up a bit at Life of the Law. We’re presenting some amazing audio documentaries produced by at universities and colleges around the country. Our first story is from…

Winter of Love

by Aviva DeKornfeld

June 28, 2016

This summer, Life of the Law is featuring stories from some of the best and the brightest upcoming audio journalists from Pitzer College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. We’re calling it our New Voices Series….