This anthology features accessible, enjoyable, thought-provoking essays on timely legal issues by prominent journalists and scholars. Selected from well-known magazines like Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, Slate, and Vanity Fair, each essay explores an important question currently being debated in our counts. Should government intervene in the business of a free market? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? Should religious icons be displayed in government buildings? Is a college student who mixes music on his laptop a thief? Any reader who would like to gain insight into the workings of the legal system while taking pleasure in excellent writing will enjoy this valuable collection.Including:Vikram Amar on What's Wrong with the Modern JuryAlex Beam on Big Tobacco and GreedRichard Thompson Ford on Gay MarriageChristopher Hitchens on Appalling MisdemeanorsKen I. Kersch on Multilateralism in the CourtsBryan Lonegan on Heartbreaking DeportationsNina Martin on ExonerationHilary Rosen and Lawrence Lessig on CopyrightRod Smola on The Ten CommandmentsEliot Spitzer on Business and GovernmentJeffrey Toobin on Gerrymandering