Best New Yorker Annals of Law
Annals of Law features in-depth reporting and essays exploring this subject through rigorous journalism and compelling narrative.
13 picks · 1993–2023
Top authors: Jeffrey Toobin (12), Eli Hager (1)
Hulk Hogan’s smashing legal victory shows us that publishing the truth may no longer be enough.
Jeffrey Toobin on how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, dramatically changing campaign-finance laws.
The Justice Department clearly wronged Senator Ted Stevens. Did it also wrong one of his prosecutors?
Sex, fame, and the case of Roman Polanski.
Why are the courts leaning on journalists?
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2005 piece on Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy opposes racial preferences and argues for expansive Presidential powers, yet he wrote the two most important pro-gay-rights decisions in the Court’s history. One conservative called him “the most dangerous man in America.”
Did the prosecutors in the Louima case have the right man all along?
ANNALS OF LAW about women judges and executions in Texas. . . Since 1976, Texas has executed two hundred and thirty-two people, which is more than a third …
ANNALS OF LAW about Washington's nascent impeachment drama. The writer describes the newly renovated suite H2-186, in the Gerald R. Ford House Office …
ANNALS OF LAW about jury trials, peremptory challenges, and two new books on juries; Jeffrey Abramson's "We, the Jury", and Stephen J. Adler's "The Jury.O …
Jeffrey Toobin writes about the legal strategies in the O. J. Simpson trial.
The Supreme Court Justice is still fuming about his tumultuous confirmation, Jeffrey Toobin writes. In an unprecedented step, he is going public with his grievances—and lashing out in his votes.