January 2012

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• The Law School Bubble: How Long Will It Last if Law Grads Can't Pay Bills?
• Journalism & Justice: Did Innocence Project Student Reporters Get Too Close to Lawyers?
• Co-Equal Opportunity: Legislators Are Out to Take Over Their State Judiciary Systems

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February 2012

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• Patriots Debate: The Meaning of the Constitution in a Time of Terror
• Constitutional Dilemma: The Power to Declare War Is Deeply Rooted in American History
• War Powers Belong to the President

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March 2012

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• Washed Away: As Sea Levels Rise, Island Nations Look to the Law to Fend off Extinction
• Show Me the Money: States, ABA Try to Figure Out When Campaign Cash Leads to a Judge’s Recusal
• Facing the Alternative: How Does a Flat Fee System Really Work?

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April 2012

Featured Stories

• Tracking Techies: Finding the Footprints of America's Switched-on Lawyers
• The Prosecutor on Trial: Ex-Maricopa County Attorney Faces Disbarment for Political Acts
• Uneasy Targets: How Justifying the Killing of Terrorists Has Become a Major Policy Debate

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May 2012

Featured Stories

• The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue Him
• Cyberattacks: Computer Warfare Looms as Next Big Conflict in International Law
• Chasing the Dream: Sorting Fact and Myth Is Biggest Obstacle to Immigration Reform

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June 2012

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• The Lawyers of Watergate: How a '3rd-Rate Burglary' Provoked New Standards for Lawyer Ethics
• Probing Questions: Experts Debate the Need to Create Exceptions to Rules on Coerced Confessions
• Help in KIND: Group Guides Pro Bono Attorneys Serving Unaccompanied Child Immigrants

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July 2012

Featured Stories

• The Pedigree Problem: Are Law School Ties Choking the Profession?
• Get Out of Jail--But Not Free: Courts Scramble to Fill Their Coffers by Billing Ex-Cons
• Insider Threats: Experts Try to Balance the Constitution with Law Enforcement to Find Terrorists

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August 2012

Featured Stories

• The Theater's 12 Greatest Courtroom Dramas
• Lady of the Last Chance: Lawyer Makes Her Mark Getting Convicts off Death Row
• Crashing the Third Party: Experts Weigh How Far the Government Can Go in Reading Your Email

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September 2012

Featured Stories

• Legal Rebels 2012: If the Shoe Fits...
• Pricing Amy: Should Those Who Download Child Pornography Pay the Victims?
• Letters of the Law: National Security Letters Help the FBI Stamp Out Terrorism But Some Disapprove

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October 2012

Featured Stories

• The World of McElhaney: Jim McElhaney Closes the Book on a Storied Career, But Angus Lives on
• Prison Break: Budget Crises Drive Reform, But Private Jails Press On
• As DC Circuit Weighs the Future of Guantanamo Inmates, Some Say Judicial Review Can Harm Military

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November 2012

Featured Stories

• Brain Trials: Neuroscience Is Taking a Stand in the Courtroom
• Biloxi Blues: Legal-Cost Fears Have Victims of the Oil Spill Sliding out of the Middle Class
• Judge Fights to Uphold Delaware's Reputation of Being Fair to Corporations

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December 2012

Featured Stories

• 6th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100
• King Coal's Violent Reign: Century-Old Labor Strife Still Raises Constitutional Questions

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