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Let the People Go

States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold.

Joseph Margulies

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The Urgent Need for Civil Justice Reform

We face a surge of civil litigation in the wake of COVID-19—from eviction fights to loan disputes—but the system has languished in dire need of reform for decades.

Daniel Wilf-Townsend

Law & Justice, Politics

Abortions Don't Drain Hospital Resources

A doctor's case against COVID-19 abortion bans. 

Daniel Grossman

Law & Justice

Who's in Charge?

It’s easy to interpret the disorder of our COVID-19 response through the lens of unpreparedness or partisanship. But that misses the complex legal structure of emergency governance.

Robert L. Tsai

Law & Justice, Politics

How to Mend Our Broken Electoral Process

We must institute a method of electing a president that is sensitive to the votes of Americans everywhere.

Reed Hundt

Law & Justice, Politics

Impeaching for Imperialism

Beneath Trump’s impeachment lurks a troubling complacency—among Democrats and Republicans alike—with the nature of U.S. imperial power.

Malick Ghachem

Law & Justice, Politics

Designing Better Impeachments

How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls.

Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau

Law & Justice

Free Speech, Incorporated

A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.

Amy Kapczynski

Law & Justice

A Jury of One’s Peers

Prosecutors use a system of “strikes” to engineer nearly all-white juries. Eliminating this system would not only make juries less racist, but also bring us closer to the original intent of the jury system.

Sonali Chakravarti

Law & Justice

College Behind Bars

One man’s struggle to earn a degree while incarcerated shows how far tough-on-crime policies go to prevent prisoners from having a second chance.

Shannon Ross

Law & Justice

Halloween and Stranger Danger

Bizarre restrictions are levied against people on the sex offense registry on Halloween. But do they actually make children safer or simply reveal what we fear?

Christine Hume

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

How Not to Argue for Tax Justice

Economists are taking aim at the unfairness of the U.S. tax system. But a just society won’t be won by arguing about taxes alone.

Liam Murphy

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

‘Flexible’ Family Leave Is Lousy Feminism

Balancing work-life pressures is often considered the holy grail, but men can still opt out of these policies. To move the needle on gender inequality, the state needs to take more coercive action. 

Gina Schouten

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