From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary.
By Laura Miller Nov 10, 2008
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New York becomes the fourth state to ban an inhumane practice
By Abigail Kramer
May 28, 2009
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Due to an "error," the stepdaughter gets everything.
By Cary Tennis
May 1, 2009
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For years America has desperately tried to outlaw sodomy and other sex acts like fellatio and cunnilingus. What are we so scared of?
By Louis Bayard
June 12, 2008
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This is not a joke: A flawed legal regime afflicts the Potter-verse.
By Andrew Leonard
November 20, 2007
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New York finally overturns the egregious laws that left minor offenders like Elaine Bartlett in prison for 16 years.
By Abigail Kramer
April 6, 2009
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As a Universal Life Church minister, I could help my friend get a foreign work visa. Should I sign?
By Cary Tennis
March 10, 2009
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His 9-year-old has Tourette's and ADHD, and I'm still a student ... is this a good idea?
By Cary Tennis
August 25, 2008
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I finally got through law school but I'm having a problem with procrastination.
By Cary Tennis
July 21, 2008
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My parents are too old and my siblings are too mired in difficulties. But I'm hesitant to bring up the idea with friends.
By Cary Tennis
May 16, 2008
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Man, this is tough: How will I ever pass the bar?
By Cary Tennis
January 31, 2008
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Proposed legal reforms could bring the Land of Cakes "into the 21st century."
By Lynn Harris
December 19, 2007
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An update on the lawsuit filed by two female law students for online anonymous attacks about their looks, their smarts, and graphic comments about what the harassers would like to do to them.
By Catherine Price
November 9, 2007
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Jeffrey Toobin's new book peeks inside the sheltered world of the Supreme Court justices. Are the unpredictable personal dynamics among the justices more important than the agenda they brought with them?
By Garrett Epps
September 13, 2007
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This couple is about to have a baby and there's no room for me -- but it's my place!
By Cary Tennis
September 10, 2007
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I'm not sure how much filial devotion I owe my father, now that he's talking about buying a rifle.
By Cary Tennis
April 4, 2007
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I am humiliated and outraged and don't know what to do.
By Cary Tennis
March 30, 2007
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In a divorce case, a German court defers to a 7th-century religious text.
By Carol Lloyd
March 22, 2007
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He treated me terribly and I'm still getting over it. And I'm not sure what she intended.
By Cary Tennis
March 13, 2007
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Why has the administration fired U.S. attorneys with sterling track records? To make room for its political loyalists, critics say, and exert its last shred of control.
By Mark Follman
February 28, 2007
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Not that there's anything wrong with being a screamer dude ... but I'd like to cash in on my property value.
By Cary Tennis
February 21, 2007
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As a consultant, I brought unwelcome news.
By Cary Tennis
January 10, 2007
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Even if Reggie Bush cashed in at USC, it doesn't mean he's a bad guy. Some rules deserve to be broken.
September 21, 2006
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Driven by rigid right-wing ideology, their heavy-handed policies have made America and the world less safe, not more.
By Stephen Holmes
September 16, 2004
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Investigators knew employees for U.S. military contractors in Bosnia bought women as sex slaves. But because of legal loopholes and bureaucratic confusion, no one was prosecuted.
By Robert Capps
June 27, 2002
Are you white enough?
Unshackling female prisoners in labor
I lost my inheritance on a "technicality"
Kiss my ass
Law, torture and Harry Potter
"The Nine"
Inside Bush's prosecutor purge
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Crime without punishment
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald