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Legal thriller author David Ellis's day job? Appellate court justice
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Justice David W. Ellis has served on the Illinois Appellate Court for the 1st District for nearly 10 years. But readers may know him better as author David Ellis, writer of more than a dozen legal thrillers. Ellis had enjoyed creative writing as a youth, he tells the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles in this episode of The Modern Law Library. But during his…
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'Shaping the Bar' author says bar exam protects legal profession, not public
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The goal of the bar exam is to be a gatekeeper for the legal profession and protect the public. But the current system, dominated by the Uniform Bar Examination, gets a failing grade from Joan Howarth, an academic, an attorney and the author of Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing.De către Legal Talk Network
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Summer reading picks and why a YMCA-funded crusade against obscenity matters today
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Do you need some distractions during vacation travel or while lying directly under your A/C unit and sweating? It’s time for The Modern Law Library’s summer recommendations episode, in which host Lee Rawles shares her pop culture picks with you, plus a re-airing of one of our older episodes with current relevance. As states navigate a post-Dobbs wo…
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'The Lawyer Millionaire’ author shares the 7 biggest money mistakes lawyers can make
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Finances are a fraught area for many attorneys. Despite a high earning potential, new lawyers often start out with a financial disadvantage due to the opportunity cost of the years devoted to school and bar prep, coupled with high student loans. People who chose to get JDs instead of MBAs often find themselves having to operate as entrepreneurs to …
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‘The Originalism Trap’ author wants to see originalism dead, dead, dead
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Originalism is the ascendant legal theory espoused by conservative legal thinkers, including the majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices. But far from being an objective framework for constitutional interpretation, says author and attorney Madiba Dennie, its true purpose is to achieve conservative political aims regardless of the historical record.…
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How to strike up conversations that build your book of business
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Networking is something that comes naturally to some people. But if the idea of talking to strangers makes you break out into a cold sweat, there’s help and hope, says Deb Feder, author of the book After Hello: How to Build a Book of Business, One Conversation at a Time. “You have picked a profession that is never finished meeting people,” Feder wr…
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When states’ rights and healthcare access clash
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From COVID-19 response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the results of 50 states having individual approaches to public health, medical outcomes and healthcare access raise troubling questions. A husband-and-wife team of University of Utah professors dig into the ethics of the American healthcare system in States of Health: The Ethics and Consequ…
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'In the Shadow of Liberty' shines light on American immigration history
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When the Trump administration's policy of separating families at the country's borders was announced, opposition from the public and the legal community was swift. The outcry and judicial decisions led to a reversal of the administration's stated policy. But detention and family separation have a long history in this country, history professor Ana …
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Users keepers: Pirates, zombies and adverse possession
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“Trespassing plus time equals adverse possession,” Paul Golden writes in his new book, Litigating Adverse Possession Cases: Pirates v. Zombies. When someone has occupied or used a piece of property as though they own it for long enough, a court could determine that they are the rightful owner—regardless of what the paperwork says. It’s a concept mo…
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James Patterson dishes on his new legal thriller, ‘The #1 Lawyer’
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James Patterson has written bestsellers in many genres. But as he tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles in this episode of The Modern Law Library, he has always been fascinated by legal thrillers, courtroom dramas and crime novels. He even considered becoming a lawyer, before his literary career took off. In his newest release, The #1 Lawyer, James Pa…
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'When Rape Goes Viral' looks at why cases like Steubenville happen
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Three high-profile cases of sexual assault in 2012 followed a basic pattern: A teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a house party by one or more teenage boys while she was incapacitated by alcohol. The attacks were recorded and the photos, videos and stories were shared on social media or via texts. The photos and videos were used to ridicule the…
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NY law prof is calling on ‘Lawyer Nation’ to reform
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Ray Brescia, a law professor at Albany Law School, has taken a hard look at the country’s legal system in his new book, Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present and Future of the American Legal Profession. In this episode of The Modern Law Library, Brescia tells the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles about the efforts in the late 19th and early 20th century to exclu…
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'Police & the Empire City' explores race and the origins of the NYPD
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In Police & the Empire City: Race & the Origins of Modern Policing, Matthew Guariglia looks at the New York City police from their founding in 1845 through the 1930s as “police transitioned from a more informal collection of pugilists clad in wool coats to what we can recognize today as a modern professionalized police department.” From the beginni…
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Yale Law's Owen Fiss talks about threats to democracy and 'Why We Vote'
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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. As a young lawyer in the late 1960s, Fiss worked with the Department of Justice to implement those laws. A classroom discussion in the spring of 2020 pr…
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Access to justice can be achieved, says ‘Law Democratized’ author–but not without change
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In 2013, the ABA Journal named Renee Knake Jefferson a Legal Rebel for her work co-founding the Michigan State University’s ReInvent Law Laboratory and rethinking how legal services could be delivered to consumers. In 2024, she’s taking a look back at more than a decade of research and experimental programs aimed at improving access to justice–the …
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How to plan your post-law life
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There are lawyers who love the practice of law so much, they’ll only leave it feet first, in a box. But for those who’d prefer to exit the bar before closing time, Kevin McGoff has advice on planning that next chapter. In his book, Finding Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond the Bar, McGoff describes his dawning realization that he was missing out on ex…
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Our favorite pop culture picks in 2023
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It's the time of year when The Modern Law Library hosts like to look back on the media we've enjoyed, our annual pop culture picks episode. This year, host Lee Rawles is joined by three ABA Journal reporters: Julianne Hill, Amanda Robert and the Journal's newest employee, Anna Stolley Persky. Naturally, the four discuss their favorite books, but th…
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Fuad Zarbiyev - L'autorité des décisions juridictionnelles en droit international
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Fuad Zarbiyev - L'autorité des décisions juridictionnelles en droit internationalDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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Philippe Gautier - Procédures incidentes devant la Cour internationale de Justice
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Philippe Gautier - Procédures incidentes devant la Cour internationale de JusticeDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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Chi Manjiao - Sustainable Development and International Economic Governance
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Chi Manjiao - Sustainable Development and International Economic GovernanceDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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池漫郊教授 - 可持续发展与国际经济治理De către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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Hélène Tigroudja - La protection de l'environnement par les organes des droits de l'homme
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Hélène Tigroudja - La protection de l'environnement par les organes de protection des droits de l'hommeDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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Hélène Tigroudja - Protection of the Environment by Human Rights Bodies
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Hélène Tigroudja - Protection of the Environment by Human Rights BodiesDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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刘大群法官 - 国际罪行De către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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Judge Daqun Liu - International Crimes
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Liu Daqun - International CrimesDe către Audiovisual Library of International Law
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How is the true crime genre impacting the way people think about innocence?
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Human beings have told stories about violence and victims from our earliest records. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, newspapers and magazines flourished on crime coverage. Hollywood has churned out crime movies and TV shows, based both in fiction and non-fiction. But after the incredible success experienced by the podcast Serial in 2014 …
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Law grad turns culinary passion into TikTok fame and a brand new cookbook
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Like many others, Jon Kung figured law school would be a safe harbor to weather the storms of the Great Recession. But after emerging from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 2011, Kung changed course.Kung, who is non-binary, says the realization the practice of law was not for them hit after they helped the local prosecutor’s office a…
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How reckoning with trauma can help you, your clients and the legal profession
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“You can’t think yourself out of trauma,” the introduction to Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Lawyer Resilience and Healing warns. “An analytical response is insufficient. As lawyers and law students, we have been trained to learn only with our minds. But there are other epistemologies—other ways of knowing and interacting with the world.” Trauma…
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Transform your negotiations with a win-win-win mindset, says author
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Moving from a “win-lose” mentality to a “win-win” mentality has been a central focus of the field of negotiation and conflict resolution since the 1980s, says Sarah Federman. Working to walk away with a deal that pleases both sides was a huge departure from the idea that one side of a transaction will necessarily lose. But Federman, author of Trans…
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