The stone front of the UK Supreme Court building, which is located across Parliament Square from Westminster, exudes the subdued authority of a powerful organization. Cases that make it there...
The tension between institutional authority and student protest has been growing on the campus of the University of Manchester, a large urban university in the center of a city with...
A lawyer is considering whether to take on another legal aid case at an unremarkable-looking office somewhere in Edinburgh. For almost twenty years, the offered fee has not kept up...
There is a specific type of institutional cruelty that goes unnoticed. It doesn’t come with yelling or overt hostility. It shows up as letters requesting documents you never received, unanswered...
It has an almost cinematic quality. A man who is the subject of a federal investigation sits down at his computer and types his most private legal concerns into an...
Press releases and transcripts of parliamentary committees don’t always capture the discussions that take place in Ottawa between Canadian technology executives and federal officials. In any capital city, some of...
The title, “Tory backbenchers filing a legal challenge against university diversity mandates,” seems explosive on paper. It evokes pictures of barristers writing pleadings, vice chancellors anxiously updating their inboxes, and...
Tourists still stop to take pictures on the Supreme Court’s marble stairs, aiming their phones aloft as though to capture the structure’s weight. The justices are deliberating on something far...
That dawn, the courthouse didn’t appear very dramatic. Only smooth stone, glass doors, and the soft hum of lawyers with thin briefcases. However, a lawsuit had been filed within that...
