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Yharnam changed a lot throughout its development

The Court follows my argument that the purpose of a rape shield hearing is to ... well ... shield rape victims.

“A hustle in the oil patch”, a “dirty legacy”: These are just a couple of the ways that the escalating costs of abandoning and reclaiming non-producing oil wells in Canada have been described.

The Tavistock centre’s gender identity service has been embroiled in court cases and criticism. This balanced look at its closure talks to those it helped – and those it failed

The star is going from the top of the table to another kind entirely

Our Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School recently released the first comprehensive national investigation of federal pretrial detention—Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis. We conducted this study to understand why the federal system jails 75% of those pending trial,…

I'm delighted to report that Alison Siegler (@SieglerAlison)—Clinical Professor of Law, the Founding Director of the University of Chicago Law School's Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC), and the lead author of Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis (2022)—and one of her coauthors, Jaden Lessnick,…

The telehealth explosion made it easier for patients to search out advice from top doctors across the country — and for health systems to get more revenue beyond their physical footprints.

Family celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabriel Byrne brilliantly channels his early Dublin years