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By Barry Goldman

From cult magazine to Sawtelle storefronts to a biannual art event with a massive following, Giant Robot has defined generations of Asian pop culture fandom.

After 50 years as a professor at Yale Law School, Owen Fiss says his students are still idealistic and passionate about the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

How courtwatchers are shifting the power dynamics in criminal courtrooms.

The character of the Indian state and politics has transformed drastically over the last few years. Mob lynchings, hate speech against minorities, criminalisation of dissent, weaponisation of extant...

Constitutional principles of freedom of speech and expression weigh overwhelmingly in favour of the artist and cannot be disturbed, Justice Kaul said at The Hindu Lit for Life Festival.

Preface for Sep 9, 2022: Dear Friends, This Shabbat, Ki Teitzei, is the fifth of the seven Sabbaths leading from the 9th of Av to Rosh HaShanah, Yom HaDin

This paper articulates “repair work” – drawing from Eve Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading – as a jurisprudential activity. In the late 90s, Sedgwick urged her scholarly community to invest in reparative readings as a contrast to the prevalent hermeneutics of suspicion. The reparative impulse, she wrote, “is additive and accretive …. it wants to assemble and confer plenitude on an object that will then have resources to offer to an inchoate self”. A commitment to reparative...

In a rare move, a group of elected officials has begun showing up in courtrooms to bear witness to the banal cruelty that keep Rikers going.