Dahlia Lithwick
Born	1967 or 1968 (age 57–58)[1] Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Education	Yale University (BA) Stanford University (JD)
Occupations	Attorney editor commentator

Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian-American lawyer, writer, and journalist. Lithwick is a contributing editor atNewsweek and senior editor atSlate. She primarily writes about law and politics in the United States. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered theMicrosoft trial and other legal issues forSlate. In 2018, theSidney Hillman Foundation awarded Lithwick with theHillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism noting that she "has been the nation's best legal commentator for two decades".^[2]

Before joiningSlate as a freelancer in 1999, Lithwick worked for a family law firm inReno, Nevada.^[3] Her published work has appeared inThe New Republic,The American Prospect,Elle,The Ottawa Citizen, andThe Washington Post.

Lithwick was born to aJewish family,^[4][5] inOttawa, Ontario, Canada and is aCanadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study atYale University, where she received aB.A. degree in English in 1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on theAmerican Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of theYale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time,Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year.

She went on to study law atStanford Law School, where she received herJ.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for JudgeProcter Ralph Hug Jr. of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.^[6] She is Jewish and keeps akosher home.^[7]

She was a regular guest onThe Al Franken Show and has been a guest columnist forThe New York TimesOp-Ed page. Lithwick is Slate's legal correspondent, providing summaries and commentary on currentUnited States Supreme Court cases. Lithwick also hosts the podcastAmicus.^[8] She received theOnline News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.^[6] A 2012Slate article coined the concept of "Muppet Theory", which makes analogies ofsocial organization to characters from the American puppet media franchiseThe Muppets.^[9][10]

• Dahlia Lithwick.Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, 2022.ISBN 0-5255-6138-2.
• Dahlia Lithwick, Brandt Goldstein.Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, 2003.ISBN 0-7611-2389-X.
• Paula Franklin, Carol Regan, Dahlia Lithwick.Building a national immunization system: A guide to immunization services and resources, 1994.ISBN 1-881985-06-7.
• Larry Berger, Dahlia Lithwick.I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, 1992.ISBN 0-316-09273-8.

• Dahlia Lithwick."The Legal Memos: How the rules were rewritten".Slate. Archived fromthe original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved10 February 2008.
• Dahlia Lithwick (28 May 2008)."Legal corner-cutting derails FLDS justice".The Dallas Morning News. Archived fromthe original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved28 May 2008.
• Dahlia Lithwick (13 November 2009)."Supreme Court Dispatch, Eh: How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada".Slate magazine. Archived fromthe original on 17 February 2011.
• Dahlia Lithwick (10 February 2010)."Watering Torture Down: Why are the media so happy to use the T word in a child-abuse case?".Slate magazine.Archived from the original on 13 February 2010.

• Lithwick, Dahlia (12 March 2012)."Extreme Makeover: The Story Behind the Story of Lawrence v Texas".The New Yorker. Retrieved31 March 2012.
• Lithwick, Dahlia (8 June 2012)."Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types".Slate.com. Retrieved26 July 2022.

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