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 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] She was recognized by a Legal Affairs magazine poll as one of the top 20 legal thinkers in America. [2]

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 APDA 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 .[3]

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  1. ^ New York Times Columnist Biography, Dahlia Lithwick
  2. ^ Legal Affairs Poll, retrieved January 30, 2008
  3. ^ I Went to Law School for This?

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