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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Wisdom Sometimes Comes Free: The Atlantic Firewall Comes Down
The Atlantic Monthly, one of my long-time favorite magazines, has just announced that it will be removing its firewall, which means their archives are freely available for linking and viewing.
If you're interested in Atlantic writings, here's some information about pulling things up:
You can browse recent Atlantic content here.
You can perform site searches here.
And you can find troves of archival material grouped by topic here.
After the jump, you can find all sorts of interesting law-related articles currently in the archives.
The Ideal Lawyer
November 1906
By David J. Brewer
"Is such a being possible?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
The Threatened Eclipse of Free Speech
BY James Harvey Robinson
(December 1917)
In 1917 an Atlantic contributor warned of the dangers of abridging free speech during wartime. "When we start out to kill enemies abroad on a gigantic scale, we are not likely to hesitate to gag those at home who seem directly or indirectly to sympathize with the foe."
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
By Felix Frankfurter
March 1927
Judge Felix Frankfurter
offers an in-depth look at what went wrong in the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Looking Back at Brown v. Board of Education Articles from 1954 and 1960 offer a look at how the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation ruling was initially received.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Women and the Law
March 1970
by Diane Shulder
Despite chivalrous claims of
protecting the "fairer sex," the law deals more harshly with women
than with men http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Justice in the Middle
March 1988
By Gene Sperling
A profile of Sandra Day O'Connor
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Reefer Madness
By Eric Schlosser
August 1994
Marijuana has not been de
facto legalized, and the war on drugs is not just about cocaine and heroin. In
fact, today, when we don't have enough jail cells for murderers, rapists, and
other violent criminals, there may be more people in federal and state prisons
for marijuana offenses than at any other time in U.S. history http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Security Versus Civil Liberties
By Richard Posner
December 2001
A distinguished jurist
advises us to calm down about the probable curtailing of some personal freedoms
in the months ahead. As a nation we've treated certain civil liberties as
malleable, when necessary, from the start http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
True Confessions
By Margaret Talbot
July/August 2002
Two simple measures could go
a long way toward ensuring that findings of criminal guilt are genuine http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
A Miscarriage of Justice
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
January 2003
Celebrity trials can turn
into media lynchings. Last year a Connecticut jury convicted Michael Skakel of
killing his neighbor Martha Moxley twenty-seven years ago, even though the
prosecution had no fingerprints, no DNA, and no witnesses. The author, a former
New York City prosecutor, argues that his cousin's indictment was triggered
by an inflamed media, and that an innocent man is now in prison http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Greed On Trial
By Alex Beam
June 2004
The question before the
jurors was not whether legal fees amounting to $7,700 an hour were
"unreasonable." It was whether the lawyer-plaintiffs should get $1.3
billion more http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Suspended Sentencing
October 2004
By Benjamin Wittes
The consequences of "the single most irresponsible decision in the modern
history of the Supreme Court"
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Rehnquist the Great?
By Jeffrey Rosen
April 2005
Even liberals may come to regard William Rehnquist as one of the most
successful chief justices of the century
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
The Day After Roe
By Jeffrey Rosen
(June 2006)
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, it will set off tectonic shifts
in the American political landscape not seen since the civil-rights
movement‹or perhaps even the Civil War
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Prophetic Justice
By Amy Waldman
October 2006
The United States is now prosecuting suspected terrorists on the basis of
their intentions, not just their actions. But in the case of Islamic
extremists, how can American jurors fairly weigh words and beliefs when
Muslims themselves can¹t agree on what they mean?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
Roberts Rules
January/February 2007
In an exclusive interview, Chief Justice John Roberts says that if the
Supreme Court is to maintain legitimacy, its justices must start acting more
like colleagues and less like prima donnas.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc
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