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Law is alive. It doesn’t live in books and words. It thrives in how well we understand and apply it to everyday life. We ask questions, find answers, and publish what we discover in feature...
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...
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...
Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find...
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...
How curious are you about your genetic makeup? There are hundreds of companies that provide direct-to-consumer tests that promise your genea...
Some two decades ago, filmmaker Andrew Nicols wrote and directed GATTACA a sci-fi movie that presented a future in which individuals and soc...
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....
Police officers throughout the U.S. shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and in Madison. The Washington Post r...
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...
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...
Over the past month, Life of the Law's team of journalists and scholars have published a three part series of feature investigative reports...
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...
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...
Today man named Dominic Ongwen is on trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands. The 42 year old Ugandan is cha...
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...
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...
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...
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and flo...
"As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration." -- Jos...
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...
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Un...
All over the world people create. Music, art, literature. But is their creative work protected? Sure there are international copyright laws,...
As a child, Serge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Now on...
"Every criminal trial is a competition between the prosecution and the defense. The judge has relatively less dominant role than in other co...
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and fede...
It's been more than 45 years since a thousand inmates at Attica Prison (Correctional Facility) in New York took control of the prison. In he...
America is a nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country in the world. The Sentencing Project reports 2.2 million peo...
What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cle...
It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this speci...
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the C...
Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection - Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supre...
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a...
Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. This week we're talking about our most recent episode Mother and Son, the role of corporal punish...
Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years Life of the Law's Exe...
Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump's new budget and Henrietta Lacks all fit into...
Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a leg...
Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. Each month we present an investigative feature report, and two weeks later our team of scholars,...
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. They took turntables, microphones, transmitt...
At Life of the Law, we're going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that's taking place about the l...
The US Constitution sets the rules for how our our society is governed. Lawyers and advocates, legislators and lobbyists, judges and courts...
Tonia Miller lost control and shook her baby to death. That’s what prosecutors said. Miller denied it, but a Michigan jury wasn’t convinced...
The 2016 elections are over. But what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors a...
The 2016 elections are over. But what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors a...
On Saturday, November 12, 2016 members of the San Quentin Wednesday Night Creative Writing Class presented the stories they have been writin...
Judges across the country are in a fight to keep their jobs. You see, Unlike judges appointed to federal courts, many state judges have to r...
On October 4th, the justices on the Kansas Supreme Court traveled to Hutchinson, a small town in central Kansas. The seven men and women don...
Douglas Collier is serving a life sentence inside San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9x4 foot cell with his friend Tony, a fell...
Each summer, people from all around the country gather for the Soros Justice Fellowship Conference -- three days of meetings, conversations,...
“Being trampled, being struck by livestock, being struck by vehicles, backed over. People have fallen into and drowned in manure pits.” - St...
When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the...