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Dahlia Lithwick

Canadian-American lawyer, writer and journalist

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Stanford University (JD) Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian-American lawyer, writer, and journalist. Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She primarily writes about law and politics in the United States. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. In 2018, the Sidney Hillman Foundation awarded Lithwick with the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism noting that she "has been the nation's best legal commentator for two decades".

Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, Lithwick worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her published work has appeared in The New Republic, The American Prospect, Elle, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post.

Early life and education

Lithwick was born to a Jewish family, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, where she received a B.A. degree in English in 1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year.

She went on to study law at Stanford Law School, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Ralph Hug Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home.

Career

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 is Slate's legal correspondent, providing summaries and commentary on current United States Supreme Court cases. Lithwick also hosts the podcast Amicus. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001. A 2012 Slate article coined the concept of "Muppet Theory", which makes analogies of social organization to characters from the American puppet media franchise The Muppets.

Bibliography

Books

Dahlia Lithwick. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, 2022. .
Dahlia Lithwick, Brandt Goldstein. Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, 2003. .
Paula Franklin, Carol Regan, Dahlia Lithwick. Building a national immunization system: A guide to immunization services and resources, 1994. .
Larry Berger, Dahlia Lithwick. I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, 1992. .

Articles

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References

"HOTSEAT- Hello, Dahlia! Lithwick relishes Supreme Court jester role".
(17 April 2018). "2018 HILLMAN PRIZE FOR OPINION & ANALYSIS JOURNALISM".
"Who We Are: Slate's staff.". Slate.
(17 June 2018). "Jews and Journalism in an Age of Fracture". [[Jewish Exponent]].
Weisberger, Jed. (April 24, 2019). "How does religion affect Jewish justices' opinions?". [[New Jersey Jewish News]].
Lithwick, Dahlia. (12 November 2008). "Everything Vibrates". Slate.
"Amicus".
(30 July 2004). "Dahlia Lithwick". The New York Times.
Harrison, Sara. (March 24, 2022). "Threatening Language Can Be Contagious. This New Tool Tracks Its Spread.".
Lithwik, Dahlia. (June 8, 2012). "Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types".

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