A new legal publication is being launched today by a group of influential law reviews. But, unlike traditional law reviews, the Legal Workshop isn’t intended to speak…
President Obama says he wants to look forward rather than backward in the controversy over harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects—but he’ll also look to his attorney general for a decision…
Three professors have announced plans to depart from a Nevada law school following a proposed 36 percent cut in the state’s higher education budget to help deal with a revenue…
A sort of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game at a law school last weekend shed light on a possible future for BigLaw that includes lower salaries and more training for…
A professor at New York Law School has won a Pulitzer Prize for her book exploring the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.
Ruling on a writ of mandamus seeking to quash a federal judge’s plan to allow a gavel-to-gavel webcast of a hearing in a hard-fought case over music downloading, the Boston-based…
Two law professors who wrote a treatise on Pennsylvania criminal law claim in a lawsuit that West Publishing falsely identified them as the authors of a poorly researched “sham” pocket…
For those who didn’t get the message from their mothers while they were still living at home, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley has circulated a…
A federal judge has agreed to unseal the grand jury testimony of a key witness in the indictment of former Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa for obstruction of justice.
A Duke University law professor says U.S. Supreme Court justices “often cling to their offices until they die,” but suggests that there is a better way.
It has become almost a truism, to a significant portion of the legal community, that former U.S. Department of Justice attorney John Yoo was way off target…
They’re uneducated, living in what amounts to a prison, and often minorities from low-income families who haven’t had a lot of luxuries offered to them in life.
Although Steven Gey is in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease, he is still teaching students in the third year of a terminal illness that his doctors expect to…
Financial disclosure forms filed by the many lawyers newly appointed by President Barack Obama to White House jobs provide a motherlode of information about what they were earning in their…
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