Life of the Law
Series produced by Life of the Law
A podcast offering documentary stories and investigations of people's relationship to the law.
Life of the Law publishes a new, unique episode every other Tuesday morning on our website - www.lifeofthelaw.org, Panoply, iTunes and on most podcast apps.
Investigative reports
Audio diaries
Live storytelling events (recorded)
In-Studio discussions
127 Pieces
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Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 32:44
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black m...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 56:32
Join us for In-Studio, when our team gets together in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to talk about our recent episodes, the law in the news a...
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 46:32
What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?
Our story is Mother and Son.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 37:45
Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 53:54
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 48:30
What do radio silence, the FCC, net neutrality, President Trump's first solo press conference, and Richard Wagner have in common? Welcome to In-Stu...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 53:16
- Purchases: 1
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. The reason was simple: the radio station was operat...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 41:13
- Purchases: 1
At Life of the Law, we’re going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that’s taking place about the law. We’...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 41:52
To celebrate Life of the Law’s 100th Episode, Life of the Law and the National Science Foundation brought five NSF funded scholars to the NSF Headq...
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 01:07:16
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 30:58
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 59:57
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 55:48
In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 1
Races for seats on state supreme courts have gotten more negative, more partisan, and much more expensive. And that leaves sitting justices in a t...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 17:57
- Purchases: 1
Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:42
Douglas Collier is a life-term inmate at San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9'x4' foot cell with his friend Tony, a fellow inmate -- u...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 17:52
Each summer, people from all around the country gather for the Soros Justice Fellowship Conference -- three days of meetings, conversations, and wo...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 39:16
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1