Politics is putting the independence of the federal judiciary at risk, Sen. Lindsey Graham said this evening in his keynote speech at the opening assembly of the ABA Annual Meeting.
Plenty of current and former military brass participated in and observed Saturday’s panel on historical perspectives concerning the Obama administration’s resumption of military commission trials in the war on terror.…
The American Bar Association and its allies, in their efforts to stem the tide of funding cuts that are sweeping over state courts across the country, face a serious challenge…
Corrected: The digital revolution has rendered secrecy largely a thing of the past for governments and the business community, said speakers Saturday at an ABA Annual Meeting program marking the…
Yale law professor and author Stephen Carter is often asked why so many lawyers write fiction, particularly thrillers and mysteries. He has a ready answer: It’s the Socratic method.
Updated: In the months since Sandra Fluke found herself the center of a media firestorm over the state of public discourse after radio personality Aug 4, 2012 12:09 AM CDT
It is a given that democracy is necessarily messy, and perhaps also more interesting at just such times. Things certainly sounded that way Friday afternoon at the ABA Annual Meeting…
You actually can get something for nothing when it comes to online legal research, says Matthew Braun, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. An annual meeting…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has decided not to get involved in the business of accrediting foreign law schools.
Anyone hoping to hear a spirited discussion over whether the NCAA overstepped its authority when it sanctioned Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal instead was schooled in…
Legislation adopted in 2010 by the Illinois General Assembly points the way toward how states can become more effective in fighting the growing national problem of human trafficking, said Cook…
CLE programs don’t often cause seasoned lawyers to cry, but many of the two dozen attending Thursday afternoon’s showing of the documentary Crime After Crime openly shed tears.
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