Faculty

Dahlia Lithwick

Lecturer
J.D., Stanford University Law School, 1996
B.A., Yale College, 1990

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in that capacity, writes the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post and Commentary, among other places.

She received the Online News Association’s award for online commentary in 2001 and again in 2005, for a series she co-authored on torture, and was the first online journalist invited to serve on the Steering Committee for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She is the co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, a legal humor book, and I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a book about seven children from Paul Newman's camp with life-threatening illnesses.

Lithwick has a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. from Stanford University Law School. She clerked for Procter Hug, chief judge of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She lives in Charlottesville with her husband and two sons.

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