Dahlia Lithwick
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Dahlia Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, ELLE, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post.
She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Lithwick, functioning in her role as Slate's "legal correspondent," frequently provides summaries of and commentary on current United States Supreme Court cases as a guest on National Public Radio's newsmagazine Day to Day, which is co-produced by Slate.com. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.[1]
Lithwick was born in Canada and she remains a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1990. As a student at Yale she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit. In 1990 she and partner Austan Goolsbee were runners up for National Debate Team of the Year.
She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. in 1996 . She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[1] She is Jewish, and keeps a kosher home.[2]
In Slate, Lithwick has argued against draconian punishments for pedophiles and has instead pointed to uncontrollable biological urges as being the cause of such behaviours. [3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Dahlia Lithwick, Brandt Goldstein. Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, 2003. ISBN 0-7611-2389-X.
- Paula Franklin, Carol Regan, Dahlia Lithwick. Building a national immunization system: A guide to immunization services and resources, 1994. ISBN 1-881985-06-7.
- Larry Berger, Dahlia Lithwick. I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, 1992. ISBN 0-316-09273-8.
- Dahlia Lithwick. "The Legal Memos: How the rules were rewritten". Slate. http://www.slate.com/features/whatistorture/LegalMemos.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
- Dahlia Lithwick (May 28, 2008). "Legal corner-cutting derails FLDS justice". The Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-lithwick_28edi.ART.State.Edition1.461b8d5.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.
[edit] References
- ^ a b New York Times Columnist Biography, Dahlia Lithwick
- ^ Lithwick, Dahlia (November 12, 2008). "Everything Vibrates". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2204465/entry/2097496/.
- ^ Vile, Vile Pedophile
