The best American legal writing 2009 /

The best American legal writing 2009 / foreword by Dahlia Lithwick. - New York : Kaplan Publishing, c2009. - xvii, 297 p. ; 21 cm.

"Edited by Dahlia Lithwick"--Cover.

Teaching law, testing ideas, Obama stood slightly apart / Jodi Kantor -- Google's gatekeepers / Jeffrey Rosen -- Tortured reasoning / David Rose -- Gun rights and our national identity crisis / Daniel Lazare -- The legacy / Steve Volk -- Mercenary for justice / Robert Kolker -- Camp Justice / Jeffrey Toobin -- McGreevey v. McGreevey / Michael Callahan -- A history of music torture in the War on Terror / Andy Worthington -- A moment's notice / Ben Hallman -- Katrina's hidden race war / A.C. Thompson -- Exhibit A / Emily Maloney -- The Fed who blew the whistle / Michael Isikoff -- Too weird for The Wire / Kevin Carey -- The truth about Jena / Amy Waldman -- Not your dad's divorce / Susanna Schrobsdorff -- The campus rape myth / Heather MacDonald -- "Justifiable homicides" are on the rise / Liliana Segura -- The judge makers / Robert Huber -- Justice after Bush / Scott Horton.

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Law--Literary collections.
American essays--21st century.

PN 6071 / B561 2009