Dahlia Lithwick

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Dahlia Lithwick is a 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 is a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.^[1]

Lithwick was born in Canada, and, despite living in the United States, she remains a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, from which she received a B.A. in English in 1990. She went on to study, somewhat unhappily and intermittently, at Stanford Law, from which she eventually received her J.D. in 1996.^[2]

1 Lithwick and Wikipedia
2 Controversy over Duke Lacrosse players
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Lithwick and Wikipedia

Several Slate authors, most notably Paul Boutin, have written pieces relating to the Wikipedia. On January 24, 2007, Slate published a humorous column by Lithwick portraying intrusive childcare advice from family, friends, and total strangers, as similar to the process of editing a Wikipedia article.^[3]

[edit] Controversy over Duke Lacrosse players

Lithwick has written several articles on the Duke Lacrosse players rape case. An article by Charlotte Allen in the Weekly Standard falsely accused Lithwick of stating that anyone who believed the Duke lacrosse players were innocent had a "creepy closet under the stairs" of his or her brain.^[4] In fact, the article from which this quote was taken, which appeared in both the Washington Post and Slate, argued that both sides expressing certainty in the case, before the facts were in, were at fault. Lithwick cited specific remarks of three commentators, on both sides of the spectrum -- Jesse Jackson, Rush Limbaugh, and Tucker Carlson -- and remarked: "If such comments tell us anything at all, it's about what happens in the creepy closet under the stairs of Limbaugh's, Jackson's and Carlson's brains."^[5]^[6] Lithwick directly addressed Allen's charges in Slate, and transformed the attack into a humorous reader contest, to create an equivalent attack from the left.^[7]

[edit] Bibliography

"Me v. Everybody : Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World", 2003 (ISBN 0-7611-2389-X), co-authored with Brandt Goldstein
"Building a national immunization system: a guide to immunization services and resources" 1994 (ISBN 1-881985-06-7), co-authored with Paula Franklin and Carol Regan
"I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp" 1992 (ISBN 0-316-09273-8), co-authored with Larry Berger