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Straddling the Thin
Blue Line

As a prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York in 1999, Kenneth Thompson ’92 was working on one of the most widely publicized cases of that...

Pros in Con

Constitutional law grapples with some of our most difficult—and consequential—legal, political, and social questions. The range and scope of these questions are extraordinary: individual rights; federalism and...

Going Global

The year was 1993. Outgoing President George H.W. Bush and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin signed a nuclear disarmament treaty. A new US president, Bill Clinton, forged...

Closing Statements

“Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors, and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black, or both.” —Nicholas...