Week News

• Brexit: high court throws out challenge to legality of article 50

• Christian Louboutin wins ECJ ruling over red-soled shoes

• Legal system of child protection is in crisis, says senior judge

• Trusting the government to protect civil liberties? That’s a sick joke

• Justice Department backs conservative students who claim universities stifle speech

• Tory MP who blocked upskirting bill says he was scapegoated

• Brussels seeks to tie UK to European human rights court after Brexit

Month News

• Detoxifying social media would be easier than you might think

• Women's rights and gender equality Further arrests of Saudi women's rights activists in escalating crackdown

• Federal judge scolds slow-moving BigLaw lawyers, enforces oral agreement to settle class action

• Republican lawmaker compares NFL protests to 'players giving Nazi salutes'

• ‘Marcia Clark Investigates’ offers entertainment, but not impact

• Former federal judge George Leighton, a civil rights pioneer, dies at 105

Year News

• The Guardian view on Turkish press freedom: standing up for democracy

• States Expand Probe Into Big Pharma Opioid Marketing

• Citing Posner, 7th Circuit grants new trial because of Posner comments

• Haringey a test case for local democracy

• Can news on social media be ‘generally known’? ABA opinion considers confidentiality exception