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Dahlia Lithwick
Canadian-American lawyer, writer and journalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian-American lawyer, writer, and journalist. Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She primarily writes about law and politics in the United States. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. In 2018, the Sidney Hillman Foundation awarded Lithwick with the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism noting that she "has been the nation's best legal commentator for two decades".[2]
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Born | 1967 or 1968 (age 56–57)[1] Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Education | Yale University (BA) Stanford University (JD) |
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Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, Lithwick worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada.[3] Her published work has appeared in The New Republic, The American Prospect, Elle, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post.