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.

Women who have sued their law firms for gender discrimination put big-firm careers at risk. The alternatives: stay silent and see no change, or move on and hope a pattern of bias does not repeat.

A special immigrant visa program aids Afghans and Iraqis whose lives are threatened because they’ve worked with the U.S. Delays jeopardize SIV applicants and their families, and perhaps the goals of the U.S. military.

In East West Street, London barrister Philippe Sands weaves intertwining true stories against the backdrop of the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials.

This year’s 13 Rebels are providing new ways to help immigrants find legal assistance, businesses comply with accessibility laws, drivers deal with parking tickets, and lawyers do their time and billing—painlessly.