Boston Globe US District Court Judge
Nancy Gertner regards her Slate
"Convictions" blog posts "as the new media version of what I've always been doing" in the classroom at Yale Law School, where she teaches. "If this is where people are getting information, this is where we have to be." She believes judges are too often silent on issues they should publicly address, such as how federal sentencing guidelines have led to unreasonably long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders.
