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February 20, 2018

5 Hot Books: Amy Chua on Tribalism, Corporations as People, and More

February 20, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Amy Chua on Tribalism, Corporations as People, and More

And a Biography of John Marshall, the Greatest Chief Justice of the United States

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February 20, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Tribalism, John Marshall, Corporations, Law
February 07, 2018

Q&A: A Civil Rights Lawyer Who Helped Defeat Jim Crow Looks Back

February 07, 2018/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Civil Rights Lawyer Who Helped Defeat Jim Crow Looks Back

Representing Black Doctors in the Segregated South, Lenny Bruce, and Muhammad Ali

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February 07, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Civil Rights, Law, Racial Segregation
May 24, 2017

Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

Historian Laura Kalman Traces it All Back to Richard Nixon

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May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Supreme Court, Conservatism, Law, Right-Wing Politics, Richard Nixon
April 21, 2017

Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

Legal Battles Over Sex Are Often Really Battles Over Religion

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April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Constitution, Sex, Law
August 24, 2016

REVIEW: An Incisive New History of the Bloody 1971 Attica Prison Riot

August 24, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: An Incisive New History of the Bloody 1971 Attica Prison Riot

A Deeply Researched Study that is Not Afraid to Assign Blame for Needless Fatalities

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August 24, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Prisons, Attica, American History, Law
June 10, 2016

Q&A: Cameron Stracher, on His Darkly Comic Novel About a Troubled Law School

June 10, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Cameron Stracher, on His Darkly Comic Novel About a Troubled Law School

An institution “filled with human beings who should have known better”

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June 10, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Law, Law School, Education, Satire
April 27, 2016

Q&A: Burt Neuborne on "Madison's Music," a Bold New Approach to Interpreting the Constitution

April 27, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Burt Neuborne on "Madison's Music," a Bold New Approach to Interpreting the Constitution

Reading the Constitution with an eye toward poetry and music

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April 27, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Law, Constitution, Law Day
April 08, 2016

Q&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court

April 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court

Bessie Margolin shaped equal rights law for generations -- and prosecuted Nazis

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April 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Q & A
New Deal, Law, Women, Supreme Court, Biography
March 01, 2016

ESSAY: What the Supreme Court’s Infamous 1927 Eugenics Decision Tells Us About Filling Justice Scalia’s Seat

March 01, 2016/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: What the Supreme Court’s Infamous 1927 Eugenics Decision Tells Us About Filling Justice Scalia’s Seat

We need fewer justices who instinctively side with the powerful

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March 01, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Supreme Court, Law, Eugenics
February 23, 2016

Q&A: Will We Ever Fix Our Broken, Discriminatory Voting System?

February 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Will We Ever Fix Our Broken, Discriminatory Voting System?

Michael Waldman discusses his new book, The Fight to Vote

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February 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Voting Rights, Law, Civil Rights, Constitution
February 08, 2016

VIDEO: On John Grisham's Birthday, This Is Him Talking About How He Wrote, and Sold, His Novel 'The Firm'

February 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen
VIDEO: On John Grisham's Birthday, This Is Him Talking About How He Wrote, and Sold, His Novel 'The Firm'

It all started with a law school friend who interviewed with a law firm

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February 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Video
John Grisham, Writing Techniques, Law, Law Firms
September 30, 2015

Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

By Eileen Hershenov

How a Supreme Court Odd Couple Fought for Women's Equality

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September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Review
Law, Supreme Court, Women, Biography, Non-Fiction, Eileen Hershenov
August 30, 2015

REVIEW – Abortion Without Apology

August 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW – Abortion Without Apology

By Dorothy Samuels

Abortion rights are in trouble in part because the pro-choice community fell down on the job

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August 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Dorothy Samuels, Abortion, Law, Politics
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