Column: Closing Arguments

Prep Talk: How to Make the LSAT Fair

By Tim Swenson | Apr 07 2009

I am a nervous wreck right now. In June I will take the Law School Admissions Test, more commonly known ...

Recession Compels Legal Revolution

By Tim Swenson | Mar 24 2009

I have two roommates in the McDonough School of Business, and in this recession I have done my best to ...

Hold the Supreme Court Accountable

By Tim Swenson | Feb 24 2009

Consider the following job offer: “Ability to create sweeping changes in our nation, job practically secure for the rest of ...

Law and Disorder: Bailing Out the Justice System

By Tim Swenson | Feb 10 2009

"Reason and reflection require us to recognize that in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person hauled into court ...

Rehab, Not Relapse

By Tim Swenson | Jan 27 2009

The other night I was watching “The Shawshank Redemption,” a film about a group of prisoners living behind bars. At ...

No More 'Do as I Say, Not as I Do' in Guantánamo

By Tim Swenson | Jan 12 2009

I don’t mean to start this column as some cliché quasi-jingoist, but let me say this: We live and ...

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