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1L: My Experience as a Woman of Color
1L: My Experience as a Woman of Color
I used to paint a picture in my head of law school as this place of forward thinking, innovation, and change. However, once I finally made…
Jordan Butler
May 19
How Plea Bargaining Perpetuates a Racist Legal System
How Plea Bargaining Perpetuates a Racist Legal System
Plea bargaining accounts for more than 95% of all convictions in America. How does it help create a racial imbalance in the law?
Dan Canon
Apr 23
Help: Domestic Violence Resources and Barriers in Louisville
Help: Domestic Violence Resources and Barriers in Louisville
With the pandemic requiring us to stay at home in 2020, a subsequent rise in incidents of domestic violence followed. Two years later, the…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Feb 8
Plea Bargaining: The Everyday Practice that Undermines Working-Class Solidarity
Plea Bargaining: The Everyday Practice that Undermines Working-Class Solidarity
A primer on how plea bargaining has been used by the ruling classes since the 19th century.
Dan Canon
Jan 26
The Varsity Blues Mastermind Got Prison Time for His White Collar Crime — What Does That Mean?
The Varsity Blues Mastermind Got Prison Time for His White Collar Crime — What Does That Mean?
Are wealthy criminals finally starting to see penalties as harsh as poor and working class people?
Dan Canon
Jan 14
Kentucky Traffic: What a Trip to Thurby Taught Me About Human Trafficking
Kentucky Traffic: What a Trip to Thurby Taught Me About Human Trafficking
In 2017, I had box seats at Thurby. For those unfamiliar, Thurby takes place at Churchill Downs on the Thursday of Derby week. It’s a time…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Oct 25, 2022
Why Should You Care About the Bar Exam?
Why Should You Care About the Bar Exam?
You didn’t take the bar exam. That’s probably because you didn’t go to law school. Good for you. Law school is hard. Your first year is an…
Dan Canon
Sep 27, 2022
Heslin v. Jones — A Case of Bad Lawyering
Heslin v. Jones — A Case of Bad Lawyering
Last week, Alex Jones, founder of far-right news website Infowars, was ordered by a jury to pay $49.3 million in compensatory and punitive…
JoAnne Sweeny
Aug 14, 2022
A Billion-Dollar Idea
A Billion-Dollar Idea
Entrepreneurs: Are you looking for a way to start a business that helps marginalized people, thereby lending direction to your purposeless…
Dan Canon
Jul 20, 2022
Prepare for the New War on Drugs
Prepare for the New War on Drugs
The coming War on Abortion is likely to be worse than anything we can imagine.
Dan Canon
Jun 30, 2022
On Being the First
On Being the First
Who’ll be first?
Marcia Ziegler
Jun 24, 2022
Can We Be The Generation That Ends School Shootings?
Can We Be The Generation That Ends School Shootings?
How old were you when you realized that an individual adult’s right to own a gun is more important than a child’s life?
Erin Gow
Jun 2, 2022
Where is the Lie?
Where is the Lie?
The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial was never about who abused whom. The verdict is a major setback for #Metoo.
JoAnne Sweeny
Jun 2, 2022
Civil Disobedience To Slavery
Civil Disobedience To Slavery
Most people in the US that think slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. It didn’t. Read on to find out more...
Simon Higgs
May 26, 2022
Can’t Afford Kids? Put That Baby in a Box
Can’t Afford Kids? Put That Baby in a Box
The GOP’s policy solution for post-Roe social chaos: create infant drop-off locations all over the country
Dan Canon
May 26, 2022
What Happens Now?
What Happens Now?
This is the question many of us are asking this morning, as we read what appears to be a frothmouthed Justice Alito’s draft opinion…
Dan Canon
May 3, 2022
For State Laws that Gig Companies Lobbied For, the Definition of “Work Time” Is Still Utterly…
For State Laws that Gig Companies Lobbied For, the Definition of “Work Time” Is Still Utterly…
It puts the onus on drivers to determine how benefits apply
Nilesh Kavthekar
Apr 20, 2022
Why ‘Worker Classification’ Has Become a $200M+ Legal War
Why ‘Worker Classification’ Has Become a $200M+ Legal War
It all stems from a flawed legal assumption made in 1838
Nilesh Kavthekar
Apr 4, 2022
America’s Jails Are Slaughterhouses
America’s Jails Are Slaughterhouses
A jail is supposed to be the last stop. Here, it’s the only stop.
Dan Canon
Mar 31, 2022
Yeezy Taught Me: Kanye West and the Characteristics of a Domestic Abuser
Yeezy Taught Me: Kanye West and the Characteristics of a Domestic Abuser
With perhaps the exception of 50 Cent, there was no bigger name in 2000s hip hop than Kanye West. West’s seminal 2004 album, “The College…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Feb 22, 2022
The Secondary Trauma of COVID
The Secondary Trauma of COVID
I can always tell when I’m burning out. It’s this feeling I get in a quiet moment, like when I’m driving to work and in between songs on…
JoAnne Sweeny
Feb 17, 2022
An Un-Ordinary Situation
An Un-Ordinary Situation
Did the defendants in a sexual harassment case pick the judges?
Jeffrey Radhaus
Feb 14, 2022
What I learned About Sexual Assault Education in Higher Education from NASPA
What I learned About Sexual Assault Education in Higher Education from NASPA
My law school education has led me down a rather unique professional path. While my fellow classmates dreamed of fighting all manner of…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Feb 7, 2022
The Supreme Court Said It Was OK
The Supreme Court Said It Was OK
How An Unprincipled Decision Sanctioned Antisemitism
Jeffrey Radhaus
Jan 31, 2022
Apple’s Employees Have a Right to Discuss Their Wages
Apple’s Employees Have a Right to Discuss Their Wages
By Olivia Polston & Ariana R. Levinson
JoAnne Sweeny
Jan 3, 2022
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