139: Release Day [Rebroadcast] & Special Announcement
It's official, and it's one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mu...
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20 of 144 episodes138: Call NOW! [Rebroadcast]
When things go bad all you need to do is pick up the phone and CALL. Since the US Supreme Court allowed lawyers to advertise in the 1970s, p...
137: Law and Society Association Conference Highlights
Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find...
136: New Voices Series - Law Students Take on Immigration
Immigration law is a mystery. Unless you’re an immigrant seeking relief under the law, or you’re an immigration law attorney, it’s an unknow...
135: In-Studio: Peril and Promise of Genetic Testing
How curious are you about your genetic makeup? There are hundreds of companies that provide direct-to-consumer tests that promise your genea...
134: GATTACA REVISITED - Up the Borrowed Ladder
Some two decades ago, filmmaker Andrew Nicols wrote and directed GATTACA a sci-fi movie that presented a future in which individuals and soc...
133: In-Studio: Police, Race and Fatal Force
Mothers, brothers, sons and daughters in cities across the country are suffering from the loss of a loved one to police use of fatal force....
132: Death by Police: A Mother's (audio) Diary
Police officers throughout the U.S. shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and in Madison. The Washington Post r...
131: LIVE LAW SF - Initial Public Offering
This week Life of the Law presents LIVE LAW... stories from people living with the rapid fire shifts that come with tech in the Bay Area, fo...
130: Inside San Quentin - Moonlight
What would men in prison say, if we just listened? This week, Life of the Law presents a new INSIDE SAN QUENTIN episode - conversations insi...
129: Uganda Part 4 - In Studio
Over the past month, Life of the Law's team of journalists and scholars have published a three part series of feature investigative reports...
128: Uganda Part 3 - Justice
For more than 20 years, rebels with the Lord's Resistance Army abducted 60,000 people from towns and villages in Northern Uganda, many of th...
127: Uganda Part 2 - Escape
For more than 20 years, rebels with the Lords Resistance Army abducted 60,000 people, from towns and villages in Northern Uganda, many of th...
126: Uganda Part 1 - Abducted
Today man named Dominic Ongwen is on trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands. The 42 year old Ugandan is cha...
125: A Whole 'nother World - San Quentin Live (2017 Holiday Rebroadcast)
On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 more than 200 people filled the pews of the Catholic chapel inside San Quentin State Prison for a first-ever...
124: Traditions
Traditions. We all have them. Some good and, well, some not so good. Think for a minute. When you were a kid, what were your holiday traditi...
123: The Battle Over Your Right to Vote
The polls got it wrong. What matters in the end, on election day, is who has the right to vote and who goes to the polls to cast their ballo...
122: Government Ghost
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and flo...
121: In-Studio - Brutally Ruthless
"As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration." -- Jos...
120: Life Un-DACAmented (Re-Broadcast)
Nearly two years ago on January 26, 2016, Life of the Law presented Un-DACA-mented, a report on the Obama Administration's DACA Program, or...