Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Racism may well be the biggest crime in the criminal legal system. If present trends continue, 1 of every 4 African American males born this decade can expect to go to prison in his lifetime despite ...

George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. We say their names, yet there is not enough time in the world to call out all the names of Black people whose deaths are intrinsically connected to a ...

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There is a fundamental mismatch between what sexual assault survivors disclose and what legal systems need to hear to take action. There is a fundamental mismatch between what sexual assault survivors ...

In the past year alone, there have been several high-profile cases demonstrating how the U.S. legal system continues to fail sexual assault survivors. From Brock Turner, the Stanford University ...

Long before I joined the ACLU, I was just a skinny brown kid who grew up in the “Inland Empire” — a region of Southern California that includes 52 cities spread across Riverside and San Bernardino ...

This investigation was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, The Dallas Morning News and NBC 5. DALLAS — Shuranda ...

David Rivkin and Lee Casey ("Toleration and Islamic Law," op-ed, Feb. 12) need not have speculated nor gone beyond our own borders for an example of the problems that can occur with a "legal system ...

This story is co-published with & the West, an independent publication at Stanford University. Assistant Professor Elizabeth Reese, who is Nambé Pueblo, joined the Stanford Law School faculty as its ...