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The White Man's Burden

The New Mexico Law Review has put together a once-off Breaking Bad-themed issue, including essays on intellectual property, plea bargaining, attorney-client privilege and Skyler White as a totem for an entire class of women caught up in America's war on drugs. All of which is a cute pretext for attracting a larger audience to a niche journal. 

Recommended: Elizabeth N. Jones' paper [PDF] on the tension between the Alberquerque represented in the TV series and the Alberquerque whose over-armed police department has visited a relentless slew of brutality against its most vulnerable citizens.

You can read the entire issue here.