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In January 2023, United Nations reported on the dire situation of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and other actors involved with the legal system in Afghanistan, over a year after the Taliban takeover of ...

Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

The Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important ...

I started my column out of rage. Pure boiling rage because of everything happening around me: a politicized pandemic, an insurrection at Capitol Hill, the continuum of racism and bigotry that left me ...

One early September day in 1379, in the French village of Saint-Marcel-le-Jeussey, a group of pigs killed a young boy. Allegedly. Three sows, from a herd owned by the local commune, apparently grew ...

Besides the fact that the legal system is an abstract entity incapable of possessing such anthropomorphic qualities, it has demonstrated a particularly bad track record for integrity. Some individual ...

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Reese, who is Nambé Pueblo, joined the Stanford Law School faculty as its first Native American member in June 2021. Her new article, published in the Stanford Law Review ...