Take a stroll through Nashville’s Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and you’ll likely spend most of the time with your head angled up. At the entrance, a mosaic cast across the dome ceiling re-creates ...

“If you can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.” This promise, heard by countless people watching their favorite police procedural on TV and by even more people in real life, holds out ...

To expand access to legal justice for those who can’t otherwise afford it, a new national crowdfunding platform, CrowdDefend, will publically launch this week. CrowdDefend helps individuals, ...

In the course of doing research recently, I had occasion to read a number of criminal histories. I was struck by the sense of entitlement the criminals had. They seemed to feel that it was OK for them ...

If you believe in the criminal justice system, file this under good news: The Arizona Department of Corrections recently issued a press release reporting it’s once again ready to execute some of the ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va.—Regent University School of Law has been ranked in the US World Report and is quickly making a name for itself as a change maker in fighting for human rights. The Center for Global ...

In this July 8, 2014 picture, people walk on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP) Betsy DeVos is U.S. education secretary. America’s students deserve to ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From the courtrooms to the city streets, lawyers and their supporters marched down Sixth Street to Jefferson Square Park, the epicenter of protests calling for justice in the March ...

Jon Theisen suffered his biggest setback as Chippewa County district attorney in 2006 when Bill P. Marquardt was acquitted of the 2000 town of Eagle Point murder of his mother, Mary Jane Marquardt. On ...

As one of 12 legislators who drafted the bill in 2002 that created the Master Matrix, a current member of the Floyd County Board of Supervisors tasked with reviewing Master Matrix applications, and a ...