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March | April 2004
Blaming Hinckley: Lincoln Caplan Letters SCENES Not So Bon Voyage By John Swansburg The man who put the trip in slip, trip, and fall. World Wide Water Cooler By Charles Duhigg Dissing your boss online, and paying for it. Taken to the Cleaners By Katharine Mieszkowski On the hook for someone else's toxic mess. THE PRUDENT JURIST By Stephen Gillers What's a lawyer to do if his client lies to him? APPRAISAL The Shawshank Reputation By John Swansburg Why is The Shawshank Redemption so popular? ARGUMENT Natural Born Killjoy By Akhil Reed Amar The Constitution won't let immigrants run for president. That should change. Pirates of the Potomac By Doron Ben-Atar We damn China's intellectual piracy, forgetting that our prosperity was built on the same thing. The Eichmann Precedent By Leora Bilsky Trying Saddam in Iraq could help that country build its democracy. |
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PRISONERS' DILEMMAS The Problem of Prison Rape By Daniel Brook More rapes occur in prison each year than in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined. Are we ignoring the problem—or do we just not care? Captive of the System By Jennifer Gonnerman Elaine Bartlett was released after 17 years in prison, but that doesn't mean she's free. PLUS: THE STATE OF PAROLE Lifers By Sasha Abramsky What should we do with the growing number of elderly prisoners who've left their criminal selves behind? NOTES FROM INSIDE The Last Supper By Brian Price The Cuckoo's Nest By John Douglas The Tinderbox By Don Cabana REVIEWS academy A Course of Inaction Where was the SEC when the mutual fund scandal happened? By John C. Coffee Jr. practice Expiration Date No scientist knows more about time of death than Bill Bass. By Jessica Sachs culture The Big Fix Arnold Rothstein rigged the 1919 World Series. Or did he? By Daniel A. Nathan academy Elsewhere The power of private law, in praise of Canada's answer to the Patriot Act, and other ideas from North America's law reviews. STORIES How I Lost the Big One When the fight for the public domain reached the Supreme Court, it needed help from a lawyer, not a scholar. By Lawrence Lessig The White Wall The medical profession's new code: First do no harm—to your colleagues. By Stephanie Mencimer Call Forwarding Cheap phone calls are possible over the Internet. Will the law stand in the way? By Nicholas Thompson Down With Discretion How a few prosecutors reduced the power of judges across the country. By Michael S. Gerber PLUS: A JUDGE WHO DOESN'T WANT DISCRETION EXHIBIT Branding Back to Top |
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