Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributing analyst at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate Magazine - and, in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court.

Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis (2018). Other notable acknowledgements include: a National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act (2013), the Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary; an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018). In 2021, Dahlia received the Women’s Media Centre’s Exceptional Journalism Award, and was also presented a Gracie Award for Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG, which captures the last in-person audio interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Dahlia earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University, and has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem.

She was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court and how MeToo impacts federal judicial law clerks. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, The Colbert Report, the Daily Show and is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show. 

Lithwick’s new book, Lady Justice, published by Penguin Press (September 2022), became an instant New York Times Bestseller. She co-authored Me Versus Everybody with Brandt Goldstein (Workman Press, 2006), and I Will Sing Life with Larry Berger (Little, Brown 1992). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012), What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013), About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).