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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 48:40
It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special epis...
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 19:38
What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cleveland ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2017
- Length: 44:31
Troy Williams and scholars Rebecca McClennan, Keramet Reiter, Ashley Rubin, and Heather Thompson drove about an hour away to San Quentin State Pris...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 48:26
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:34
This week on Life of the Law, our team met up in the studios of KQED to talk about the law, moral luck, and prosecutorial discretion in America.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 48:12
The Gift and Curse of Music – Haiti’s Fight for Copyright is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ju...
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 35:55
- Purchases: 1
All over the world people create. Music, art, literature. But is their creative work protected? Sure there are international copyright laws, but ar...
- Added: Sep 19, 2017
- Length: 38:45
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 01:10:04
Unless Congress acts to save the DACA program, the last permit will expire on March 5, 2020. This week on Life of the Law… we share Luis’s story an...
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 33:45
This week, our team goes IN-STUDIO with Jose “Chito” Vela, the young man’s immigration attorney and now candidate for the Texas State Legislature,...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 52:54
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Nov 14, 2017
- Length: 20:31
- Purchases: 1
This week on Life of the Law, our team meets IN-STUDIO with Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NY...
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 40:56
