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Law & Justice, Politics

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Colleen Murphy

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Law & Justice

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?

On the surface, Fulton v. Philadelphia poses a question about religious conscience—but its proponents hope it will enable conservatives to pick and choose which laws they have to follow.

Joanna Wuest, Briana Last

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Congress Could Legislate ‘Roe v. Wade’ and Still Fail Women

‘Roe v. Wade’ only guaranteed the right to patients’ privacy. A federal abortion law would need to go so much further.

Rachel Rebouché

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism. 

Erica X Eisen

Law & Justice

Derek Chauvin and the Myth of the Impartial Juror

As a space for democratic deliberation and decision-making, the jury box still has the potential to shift the criminal legal system. But, first, we must change who is able to serve on a jury. 

Sonali Chakravarti

Law & Justice

Who Deserves to Be Forgiven?

Forgiveness is a public good, but it is doled out unevenly. Justice demands we widen its reach beyond the select few.

Joseph Margulies

Law & Justice

How Law Made Neoliberalism

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

Arts in Society, Law & Justice

A Parable and Parody of Restorative Justice

The Netflix series Dead to Me suggests that we might get closer to justice by forgiving each other and ourselves for the sometimes literally fatal flaw of being human.

Judith Levine

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.

Mike Konczal

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Hangs in the Balance

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Law & Justice

How Criminal Law Lost Its Mind

Many U.S. criminal statutes betray the bedrock legal principle of mens rea. The result is a deeply unjust system that punishes the morally innocent.

Michael Serota

Law & Justice, Politics

Our Undemocratic Constitution

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.

Julie C. Suk

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Is on the Ballot

Donald Trump's winning strategy.

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

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