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Dahlia Lithwick is a
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Canadian-American
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lawyer, writer, and journalist. Lithwick is currently a contributing editor at ''Newsweek
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'' and senior editor at ''Slate
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''. She primarily writes about law and politics in the United States. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft
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trial and other legal issues for ''Slate''. In 2018, the Sidney Hillman Foundation
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awarded Lithwick with the Hillman Prize
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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
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. Her published work has appeared in ''The New Republic
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'', ''The American Prospect
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'', ''Elle
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'', '' The Ottawa Citizen'', and ''The Washington Post
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''.
Early life and education
Lithwick was born to aJewish
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family, in Ottawa
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, Ontario, Canada and is a Canadian citizen
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. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University
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, where she received a B.A.
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degree in English in 1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association
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circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association
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. 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 University
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, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher
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home.
Career
She was a regular guest on ''The Al Franken Show
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'' and has been a guest columnist for ''The New York Times
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'' Op-Ed
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page. Lithwick is Slate's legal correspondent, providing summaries and commentary on current United States Supreme Court
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cases. Lithwick also hosts the podcast Amicus. She received the Online News Association
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The majority of ON ...
's award for online commentary in 2001.
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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External links
*Lithwick's columns at Slate.com
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