Other Articles by Elaine McArdle

Together We Won’t (Boston Globe, March 8, 2009)
Massachusetts is the latest state to try merging school districts. But study after study shows it doesn't make schools better.

The Freedom to Say ‘No’ (Boston Globe, May 18, 2008)
Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren't interested.

NPR Interview with Scott Simon with Elaine on “The Freedom to Say ‘No’” (NPR Weekend Edition, May 23, 2008)

In the Classroom: Training Litigators to Work with Expert Witnesses (Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 2008)

A Curriculum of New Realities (Harvard Law Bulletin, Winter 2008)
For the first time in nearly 150 years, Harvard Law School—which created the standard legal curriculum followed by the nation’s law schools—is retooling how lawyers learn

I was Lobbied by the Israel Lobby—a Dispatch from Inside the Soft Sell (Boston Globe, Sept. 18, 2007)
Can we resist being influenced by generosity and access? Will we even recognize it?

Hooked on a Feeling (Northeastern Law School Magazine, Summer 2007)
Teaching law students to be great trial lawyers by dropping pretense and condescension

A Worldly Approach (Northeastern Law School Magazine, Winter 2007)
Training today’s lawyers for a global economy

Figuring It Out (Northeastern University Magazine, Winter 2007)
Undergraduate research heads front-and-center for today's students

Special Agent (Boston Globe Magazine, Oct. 23, 2005)
New England's newest weapon in the war on drugs is June Stansbury, the only African-American woman to head up a DEA field division. The pot-smoking capital of the United States is officially on notice.

Sweating With the Enemy (Boston Globe Magazine, 6/19/05)
The founder of Curves women's fitness centers is proudly pro-life; many Curves members are passionately pro-choice. Is there a conflict?

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From Ballistic to Holistic (Boston Globe Magazine, 1/11/2004)
Law is a profoundly unhappy profession, with upwards of 80 percent of lawyers miserable in their careers. Hopeless? Hardly -- thanks to a quiet but growing revolution that seeks to inject morality, even spirituality, into the business.

No More Mr. Nice Guy (Boston Globe Magazine, 9/12/04)
Defense attorneys can't stand the neocon policies of U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan. So how come they all like him so much?

Calling the Shots (Boston Globe Magazine, 10/31/04)
Women cops on top: three calling the shots in Massachusetts law enforcement.
MSNBC highlighted this article on February 14, 2005.

The Lost Boys (Boston Magazine, 09/03)
Why are women outpacing men in college enrollment?

Head Games (Boston Magazine, 06/03)
An alarming number of Massachusetts psychiatrists have gotten caught again and again having sex with some of this society's most vulnerable people: their own patients.

Stephen Heywood Q & A (ALSTDF, 8/21/05)
A Tale of Two Brothers: Jamie Heywood's race to save his brother's life from the death sentence of ALS

Boston Magazine

The Kids Aren't Alright (09/04)
Finding daycare may be a hassle. But picking the right one could mean the difference between life and death.

Spy Kids (05/03)
Where does the CIA go to find its next generation of agents? Career fairs at MIT and Tufts for starters. And unlike the counterculture days of old, students today are lining up to get their license to kill.

Human Guinea Pigs (04/03)
Ever considered smoking pot for a living? Or having your veins shot full of red dye? Or testing new medications that might kill you? Join the growing ranks of Boston's "professional patients."

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (10/02)
Boston's Best—and Worst—Lawyers

The Boston Globe

Here's a Town That's Remarkably Real (Boston Globe, 8/13/03)
What's so special about Littleton, NH?

Harvard Law Bulletin

Up on Downloading (2004)
HLS professors propose solutions to music industry crisis

Sowing the Seeds of Public Service (2005)
"Part of being a good person, part of being a good lawyer."

Northeastern Law

A Man for the Times (2005)