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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…

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…

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…

Liberté & Securité – Transcript

by Emma Jacobs

May 31, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: There’ve been a series of terrorist attacks in Europe, and now France, one of the countries hardest hit, is adjusting to this elevated threat. Last week, the French parliament passed yet another law…

Recuse Yourself – Transcript

by Chloe Prasinos

May 17, 2016

Judges are supposed to hear the case before them and make a fair judgement based on the law. But what if the judge has a bias? Maybe a conflict of interest? When should a judge…

The Hold Up – Transcript

by Ashley Cleek

May 3, 2016

It’s an election year — which is already pretty rough going — and then in February, Justice Antonin Scalia died. And in a split second, there was a rare opening on the US Supreme Court….

Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

Sterilized – Transcript

by Jess Engebretson

March 22, 2016

The law can be a tool for justice, and injustice. Starting in 1907, legislators in dozens of states passed laws that made it legal to forcibly sterilize people considered by some doctors and scientists to…

A whole ‘nother world… Live @ San Quentin

by Nancy Mullane

December 25, 2015

On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 more than 200 people filled the pews of the Catholic chapel inside San Quentin State Prison for a first-ever uncensored storytelling event behind the prison walls. Together, inmates and…

Outside the Walls

by Troy Williams

December 15, 2015

“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangbangers do. I’m 49 years…