Lawmakers and media often speak of the “criminal justice system” or of “criminal justice reform.” But more and more people and organizations are using the term “criminal legal system” to describe ...

When judges rule on actions taken by government agencies, they must make their rulings clear for the public, the Connecticut ...

In January 2023, United Nations reported on the dire situation of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and other actors involved with the legal system in Afghanistan, over a year after the Taliban takeover of ...

Besides the fact that the legal system is an abstract entity incapable of possessing such anthropomorphic qualities, it has demonstrated a particularly bad track record for integrity. Some individual ...

I started my column out of rage. Pure boiling rage because of everything happening around me: a politicized pandemic, an insurrection at Capitol Hill, the continuum of racism and bigotry that left me ...

When Michigan State University’s Justin Simard was conducting research for his dissertation, he came across a case predating the Civil War related to slavery that was cited as precedent in 2012. He ...

This spring, graphic images of a white police officer digging his knee into George Floyd’s neck served as a catalyst to renew the mass social movement against police violence and racism that has come ...

Summer Applications Close May 29. For over 20 years, CELOP’s Legal English and Foundations of the US Legal System (former Pre-LLM) Program has prepared hundreds of internationally trained law students ...

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Reese, who is Nambé Pueblo, joined the Stanford Law School faculty as its first Native American member in June 2021. Her new article, published in the Stanford Law Review ...