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Release Day [Rebroadcast]

Sep 26th, 2018 20m 8s

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 Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the first episode of Life of the Law, with stories abo

Call NOW!

Jun 26th, 2018 24m 40s

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 like these have skyrocketed, with often shoddily-produced results. Are tacky lawyer ads trashin

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Law and Society Association Conference Highlights

Jun 19th, 2018 9m 10s

Where does one find a discussion of research on abduction for forced marriage amidst West and Central African conflicts? Where does one find research on how ‘yes means yes’ policies on university campuses have affected the college students inte

New Voices Series: Law Students take on Immigration

May 28th, 2018 34m 37s

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, earlier this year, Karla McKanders, a professor of immigration law at Vanderbilt Law School sen

In-Studio: Peril and Promise of Genetic Testing

May 15th, 2018 43m 23s

How curious are you about your genetic makeup? There are hundreds of companies that provide direct-to-consumer tests that promise your genealogy, deep ancestry and biogeographical ancestry. Other tests offer genetic information about your heal

GATTACA REVISITED: Up the Borrowed Ladder

May 1st, 2018 45m 7s

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 at risk from having gained access to, and control of, our genetic code.Today, 20 years after

In-Studio: Police, Race and Fatal Force

Apr 17th, 2018 47m 48s

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 The Washington Post reports police officers in the United States shot and killed 987 people. Six

Death by Police: A Mother's (audio) Diary

Apr 2nd, 2018 38m 59s

Police officers throughout the U.S. shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and in Madison. The Washington Post reports 987 people were shot and killed by police in 2017, sixty-eight of them were unarmed. There are ma

LIVE LAW SF - Initial Public Offering

Mar 20th, 2018 1h 37m

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 are pushing back against the gentrification and alienation to try to make real life contact thro

Inside San Quentin - Moonlight

Mar 6th, 2018 1h 14m

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 Quentin produced exclusively by men incarcerated inside the prison.We have laptops and can watch

Uganda Part 4 - In Studio

Feb 20th, 2018 52m 13s

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, examining the long-term impact of the violence committed on the people of the East African na

Uganda Part 3 - Justice

Feb 7th, 2018 38m 55s

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 girls and boys who were then forced to fight, kill, and loot. Young girls spent years in captiv

Uganda Part 2 - Escape

Jan 24th, 2018 46m 42s

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 girls and boys who were forced to fight, kill, loot and have sex with rebel commanders. Why did

Uganda Part 1 - Abducted

Jan 10th, 2018 39m 44s

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 committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Northern Uganda.Ongwen is the only comma

125: A Whole 'nother World - San Quentin Live (2017 Holiday Rebroadcast)

Dec 27th, 2017 1h 3m

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 storytelling event behind the prison walls. Together, inmates and volunteers, officers and st

Traditions

Dec 12th, 2017 41m 17s

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 you still follow some of them today? Put up lights? Bake special cookies or visit relatives? Wha

The Battle Over Your Right to Vote

Nov 28th, 2017 44m 11s

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 strict voter ID laws, not all Americans are allowed to vote on election day. In fact, some 21

Government Ghost

Nov 14th, 2017 23m 46s

2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto Rico have meant that families have lost their homes and in many cases all of the

In Studio: Brutally Ruthless

Oct 31st, 2017 56m 8s

"As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on immigration." -- Jose Chito Vela, Immigration Attorney and Candidate for Texas State LegislatureIt’s been a year since th

Life Un-DACAmented

Oct 17th, 2017 37m

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 Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, begun in 2012 offered undocumented immigrants who c

119: Live Law Detroit

Oct 3rd, 2017 1h 13m

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 stop to hear their story, you may miss it.Each year new and former Soros Justice Fellows gathe

118: In Studio - Global Intellectual Property

Sep 19th, 2017 42m

All over the world people create. Music, art, literature. But is their creative work protected? Sure there are international copyright laws, but are they enforced? And if not, what then? This week our team took to the studio for a discussion to

The Gift & Curse of Music

Sep 5th, 2017 39m 10s

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 top music producers in the country, Turnier is faced with the reality that Haitian law offers l

116: In Studio - Prosecuting Discretion

Aug 22nd, 2017 51m 27s

"Every criminal trial is a competition between the prosecution and the defense. The judge has relatively less dominant role than in other countries and a lot of times, we have the guilt and innocence of people decided by juries, unless of cours