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Barbara Babcock and Clara Foltz: First Women

Barbara Babcock feels very close to Clara Foltz, though the two have never met. Foltz was famous in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a jury lawyer, public intellectual, leader of the...

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Mark G. Kelman Views Heuristic Reasoning Through the Legal Lens

New York City’s Special Services for Children agency was in the midst of a severe financial crisis in 1976, with shrinking resources and rising need. Mark Kelman, fresh out of law school, was the...

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Alison D. Morantz

Alison D. Morantz has an orange hardhat and a block of bituminous coal 
in her office—keepsakes from visits she made to a gold mine and a coal mine several years ago. 
“I found it interesting,” she...

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Ralph Richard Banks

Should black women be held hostage to the failings of black men? That’s the provocative question at the heart of a new book by
 Ralph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87), the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor...

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The Death Penalty 
in the Hot Seat


John J. Donohue III, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, has brought his economic expertise and empirical techniques to bear on a number of cutting-edge social issues. In stark contrast...

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Civil Rights 
in a New Light

Richard Thompson Ford’s opinion piece in The New York Times last fall was something of a cat among the pigeons. In the essay, based on his book Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for...

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Pamela S. Karlan and the Law of Democracy

RELATED VIDEOS: Karlan discusses the 2012 election’s impact on the Supreme Court on October 22 Karlan explains the importance of the courts in protecting constitutional rights at the 2010 ACS National...

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David Freeman Engstrom on Qui tam

Qui tam—It’s not a term that many people can confidently pronounce, let alone define. But if Associate Professor David Freeman Engstrom, JD ’02, has his way, the qui tam lawsuit, which has enjoyed a...

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Nora Freeman Engstrom on the Contingency Fee Cost Paradox

The spark for Nora Freeman Engstrom’s interest in “settlement mills” came at 
an unexpected moment while she was watching the 2004 World Series. 
One law firm ad stood out because it ran over and over...

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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Governing Security

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar spent much of his childhood in the Texas Rio Grande Valley 
and then in California’s Imperial Valley on the U.S.-Mexico border. It was during this time, he says, 
that he...

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Barbara H. Fried

The recriminations flying back and forth in the wake of the mortgage crisis were 
bugging Barbara Fried. Were the banks to blame? Were the people who took out mortgages they couldn’t afford to blame?...

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Michael W. McConnell

Michael McConnell has a keen interest in how history can help us understand current 
constitutional issues. His research frequently begins with unearthing early controversies over constitutional...

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Juliet Brodie

After more than 20 years serving low-income clients, many attorneys would be suffering from “compassion fatigue,” professional burnout, or a combination of the two. But not Juliet Brodie, director of...

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Michael Klausner

Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), at one time or another, have justified securities class actions as valuable “supplements” to SEC enforcement of the...

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Trading at the Speed of Light

Joe Grundfest, JD ’78, W.A. Franke Professor of law and business What does Einstein’s Theory of Relativity have to do with securities law? According to Joe Grundfest, JD ’78, potentially quite a lot....

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Applying Psychology to Tax Law—and Legal Education

Six years ago, Joe Bankman, the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, wanted to broaden his legal scholarship. So in his spare time, he went back to school to train as a clinical...

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