With an expected surge in civil and criminal fraud cases on the horizon over questions about the conduct of those involved in making mortgage loans blamed for a worldwide credit…
The law school at the University of Utah has been awarded a $2.5 million one-year grant from the U.S. State Department to help forge an independent judiciary in Iraq, the…
A Stanford University law professor who urged the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to suppress evidence of a police search alluded to the deputy in The Andy Griffith Show to make…
Tax law professors are taking center stage in the latest political issue concerning Sarah Palin’s candidacy for vice president on the Republican ticket.
Companies that tout the virtues of arbitration appear to prefer litigation for disputes involving contracts with other companies, according to a study by three law professors.
For the second straight year, Yale Law School students protested the presence of military recruiters at the school’s career fair because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on…
Constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, who last year was recruited, hired, then publicly fired and run through the ringer before being hired again, describes the experience as “the most difficult…
The dean of Tulane law school is apologizing to the Louisiana Supreme Court for errors in a professor’s study that had found campaign contributions appear to influence the justices’ votes.
The second-most junior bankruptcy judge in Manhattan will be handling the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, but that doesn’t mean he can’t handle the job, says a lawyer who will be appearing…
Andres Idarraga’s future didn’t look promising when his drug-dealing caught up with him and he was sentenced to a 14-year term in a Rhode Island prison.
Law professors have donated more than $1 million to the political parties and the presidential candidates, with more than 90 percent of the money flowing into Democratic coffers.
Seeking to pursue a controversial study about the effectiveness of law school affirmative action programs, researchers have sued the State Bar of California for access to 30 years of examination…
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