When aggrieved individuals turn to the law, the adversarial character of litigation imposes considerable personal and financial costs that make plaintiffs feel like they’ve lost regardless of the outcome of the case.

As courtrooms specializing in girls’ cases crop up around the country, the U.S. Department of Justice is examining whether they actually work.

In pockets around the country, the movement to keep kids out of detention homes and prisons is beginning to give more focus to girls, whose experiences and vulnerabilities are markedly different from those of boys.

The growing deployment of facial recognition technology is raising alarms among civil libertarians, who worry that the capability to identify people based solely on their appearance will erode privacy. And just how accurate is it?

Lawyer Donald Specter, executive director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, was blown away by prisons in Germany and the Netherlands. For starters, they were physically different—built to resemble life on the outside. Inmates had their own rooms and, in some cases, were allowed to cook in communal kitchens.

A special preview from the October issue: The attorney general sees his role as pushing present-day law enforcement toward a rose-colored past.

The President’s Court: The Supreme Court’s new term will address the travel ban and other hot-button issues with President Trump’s first appointee on the bench.

In a field premised on protecting the rights of others, law firm equality should be a de facto presumption. But in practice, not enough firms are putting in enough effort to get it right, and even fewer are doing it well.