As we gear up for an online AALS, I’m reminded that last year’s meeting may have been the last “normal” conference gathering for many of us. Was it really one year ago that we all sat together in DC and watched, breathless, Vicki Jackson and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in conversation...
UC Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s final book Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union (March 2021), written in collaboration with Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler, one of Justice Gin...
by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
If you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison abolitionist, I would have called you crazy.
In 1995, I was a brand-new lawyer represe...
By Hadar Aviram, author of Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole
You’ve probably heard these words everywhere in the last few weeks: “We are all in the same storm, but not in the same boat.”
These are desperate, scary times for all of us. Consider ...