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July | August 2002
Internal Affairs: Lincoln Caplan
SCENES DOG DOCKET By Daskha Slater The case of the unleashed canines. ZERO L By Ayo Griffin Racial tensions on a visit to Harvard Law School. ALMOST HOMELESS By Jonathan L. Hafetz Guiding a tenant through housing court. NUMBERS SALARY GAPS BAD FENCES By Sari Bashi Walling off a New Haven housing project. TERMS OF ART MISQUOTING MADISON By Michael Doyle "A Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy"—Getting it wrong. SATIRE PERRY MASON FAN CLUB, MEMBER NO.1 By Ted Rall ARGUMENT BLESSING SHAM SHELTERS By Sheldon D. Pollack Tax lawyers skirt ethics and the law. |
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FEATURES FIRST PERSON BUMBLE IN THE BRONX By David Feige Banned from the courtroom and hounded by a difficult judge, I couldn't keep an honest client out of jail. The tale of a New York City public defender. 
EXCAVATION IN SEARCH OF LOST CRIME By Caleb Crain Bloated bodies, bigamous love, and other literary pleasures of the 19th-century trial transcript. REVIEWS RULE OF LAW UNDER THE MICROSCOPE By Brendan I. Koerner For more than 90 years, forensic science has been a cornerstone of criminal law. Critics and judges now ask whether it can be trusted. PLUS: Edward Lazarus on why judges rarely change their minds. PRACTICE NET LOSS By Reed E. Hundt The power of a few giant companies threatens innovation on the World Wide Web. ACADEMY HISTORY LESSON By Jack M. Balkin Five Supreme Court justices think Congress doesn't have the power to pass new laws against discrimination. They're forgetting about the civil rights movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
STORIES FIRST PERSON RETURN OF THE DEADBEAT Amy Benfer on the appearance of her daughter's father, who after his nine-year absence wants to become a dad. TRUE CRIME GRAVE OFFENSE Emily Bazelon on 19th-century medicine's midnight invasion of the body snatchers. PRACTICE MILKEN'S REVENGE Roger Parloff on the extravagant and ultimately futile libel suit against the journalist James B. Stewart. DISPATCH LANGUAGE MATTERS Michael Erard on the latest form of racial profiling. SANTIAGO'S AFTERSHOCK David Bosco on the uncertain fate of judicial reform in democratic Chile. EXHIBIT LAW LIKE LOVE W.H. Auden |
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