The Scorpion and the Frog The results of the election did not bring me immediate solace. I’m sure this has been the case for many folks who found it difficult
As I type this, thousands of Israeli Arab citizens, residents of Magd-al-Crum (an Arab town in the Upper Galilee) are protesting against the Israeli government’s failure to appropriately address violence
Arrest during a protest in Petaluma. Photo credit: DxE. Whether or not the necessity defense applies, or should apply, to open rescue, is a doctrinal legal question. As a law
I’ve just finished watching the second season of an Israeli documentary series titled Shadow of Truth, which takes on a series of chilling rape-murders that occurred along one of Israel’s
Last night I had a real treat in listening to the wonderful James Forman Jr. speak at the Nourse Theater with Lara Bazelon, as part of the City Arts and
Recently, SCOTUS decided Collins v. Virginia (2018), in which the Court, by a 8-1 majority, did not uphold a search involving a motorcycle in a driveway. The story is this:
I got a lot of commentary, in person and on Facebook, after my post about Ban the Box backfiring. Folks were expressing serious frustration with how an idea that seemed
San Francisco’s City Hall was lit in pink yesterday as we, more than a hundred thousand residents, rose up to protest and march against the Trump Administration and to support
Last Monday’s presidential debate was interesting for a variety of reasons. To me, a particularly interesting point was the reemergence of old-skool crime risk narratives. As I explain in Cheap
The Oakland police is being sued for the killing of Demouria Hogg. The Huffington Post reports: Oakland firefighters found an unresponsive man in the driver’s seat of a BMW parked