Life of the Law
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Life of the Law
Law is alive. It doesn’t live in books and words. It thrives in how well we understand and apply it to everyday life. We ask questions, find answers, and publish what we discover in feature episodes and live storytelling.
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139: Release Day [Rebroadcast] & Special Announcement
It's official, and it's one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom...
138: Call NOW! [Rebroadcast]
When things go bad all you need to do is pick up the phone and CALL. Since the US Supreme Court allowed lawyers to advertise in the 1970s, practices l...
137: Law and Society Association Conference Highlights
Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find research...
136: New Voices Series - Law Students Take on Immigration
Immigration law is a mystery. Unless you’re an immigrant seeking relief under the law, or you’re an immigration law attorney, it’s an unknown. Then, e...
135: In-Studio: Peril and Promise of Genetic Testing
How curious are you about your genetic makeup? There are hundreds of companies that provide direct-to-consumer tests that promise your genealogy, dee...
134: GATTACA REVISITED - Up the Borrowed Ladder
Some two decades ago, filmmaker Andrew Nicols wrote and directed GATTACA a sci-fi movie that presented a future in which individuals and society were...
133: In-Studio: Police, Race and Fatal Force
Mothers, brothers, sons and daughters in cities across the country are suffering from the loss of a loved one to police use of fatal force. In 2017 Th...
132: Death by Police: A Mother's (audio) Diary
Police officers throughout the U.S. shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and in Madison. The Washington Post reports 987...
131: LIVE LAW SF - Initial Public Offering
This week Life of the Law presents LIVE LAW... stories from people living with the rapid fire shifts that come with tech in the Bay Area, folks who ar...
130: Inside San Quentin - Moonlight
What would men in prison say, if we just listened? This week, Life of the Law presents a new INSIDE SAN QUENTIN episode - conversations inside San Que...
129: Uganda Part 4 - In Studio
Over the past month, Life of the Law's team of journalists and scholars have published a three part series of feature investigative reports on Uganda,...
128: Uganda Part 3 - Justice
For more than 20 years, rebels with the Lord's Resistance Army abducted 60,000 people from towns and villages in Northern Uganda, many of them young g...
127: Uganda Part 2 - Escape
For more than 20 years, rebels with the Lords Resistance Army abducted 60,000 people, from towns and villages in Northern Uganda, many of them young g...
126: Uganda Part 1 - Abducted
Today man named Dominic Ongwen is on trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands. The 42 year old Ugandan is charged with...
125: A Whole 'nother World - San Quentin Live (2017 Holiday Rebroadcast)
On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 more than 200 people filled the pews of the Catholic chapel inside San Quentin State Prison for a first-ever uncensored...
124: Traditions
Traditions. We all have them. Some good and, well, some not so good. Think for a minute. When you were a kid, what were your holiday traditions? Do yo...
123: The Battle Over Your Right to Vote
The polls got it wrong. What matters in the end, on election day, is who has the right to vote and who goes to the polls to cast their ballot. Due to...
122: Government Ghost
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in Tex...
121: In-Studio - Brutally Ruthless
"As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration."
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120: Life Un-DACAmented (Re-Broadcast)
Nearly two years ago on January 26, 2016, Life of the Law presented Un-DACA-mented, a report on the Obama Administration's DACA Program, or Deferred A...
119: Live Law Detroit
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless you s...
118: In Studio - Global Intellectual Property
All over the world people create. Music, art, literature. But is their creative work protected? Sure there are international copyright laws, but are t...
117: The Gift & Curse of Music
As a child, Serge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Now one of the t...
116: In Studio - Prosecuting Discretion
"Every criminal trial is a competition between the prosecution and the defense. The judge has relatively less dominant role than in other countries an...
115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal prosec...
114: Inside San Quentin - To Be Heard
It's been more than 45 years since a thousand inmates at Attica Prison (Correctional Facility) in New York took control of the prison. In her 2017 Pul...
113: In Studio
America is a nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country in the world. The Sentencing Project reports 2.2 million people are i...
112: In Studio
What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cleveland Cav...
111: Warriors
It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special episode...
110: In Studio
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitutio...
109: Unequal Protection - Pt. 2
Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection - Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court....
108: Unequal Protection - Pt. 1
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man...
107: In Studio
Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. This week we're talking about our most recent episode Mother and Son, the role of corporal punishment in th...
106: Mother and Son
Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years Life of the Law's Executive Pro...
105: In Studio
Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump's new budget and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one conver...
104: Heroin Town
Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alterna...
103: In Studio
Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. Each month we present an investigative feature report, and two weeks later our team of scholars, journalist...
102: Radio Silenced
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. They took turntables, microphones, transmitters, prett...
101: In Studio
At Life of the Law, we're going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that's taking place about the law. We're...
100: Live Law NSF
The US Constitution sets the rules for how our our society is governed. Lawyers and advocates, legislators and lobbyists, judges and courts work to en...