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Hillary Sale, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and professor of management

Stephen Legomsky, the John S. Lehmann University Professor of Law

Peter Joy, of the School of Law, writes about the sentence of Brendan Dassey, the teenager whose criminal case was featured along with that of Steven Avery in the “Making a Murderer” documentary series on Netflix. Joy explains the “Strickland standard” and how it applies to this case.

Randall Bateman, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology

Leigh Schmidt, of the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, writes an essay in the journal Religion & Politics marking the anniversary of the 1966 Time magazine cover story titled “Is God Dead?”

Stephen Legomsky, the John S. Lehmann University Professor of Law

James Gibson, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government

While you might not connect comic books and superheroes with religion, Roshan Abraham reveals how religion is in comics’ DNA. Abraham, assistant professor of classics and of religious studies in Arts & Sciences, discusses the parallels for “Hold That Thought.”

Adam Rosenzweig, professor of law

Patrick Rishe, director of Olin’s Sports Business Program, writes in Forbes about U.S. women’s soccer players’ federal complaint alleging wage discrimination and on the economics of the game.