Writ (website)

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Writ
Available inEnglish
Current statusOnline

Writ is a legal commentary website on the topic of the law of the United States hosted by

Counsel to the President; one is a novelist, and one is the current director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program of Human Rights Watch
. The guest columnists also tend to be law professors or seasoned attorneys. When the website was still producing new content, columnists commented both on notable ongoing court cases and recent court decisions, as well as on current events.

Writ also published occasional book reviews, on books of both legal and more general interest; the book reviewers were likewise academically inclined attorneys.

Writ is free, and maintains all of its material from its inception in a free archive.

Although Writ is known mainly among legal circles, its columnists tend to be prolific authors who reach a broad audience. Many have published books as well as frequent articles and op-eds in newspapers and magazines such as

The Chicago Tribune, and Slate. One Writ columnist, Marci Hamilton, was the first guest on The Daily Show
in its new studio in 2005; columnist Edward Lazarus also appeared on The Daily Show in 2006.

Writ is available online[1] and, after an extended period of inactivity, actively publishes new articles as of 2022.

Writ's regular columnists

Books by Writ columnists

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