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…
Individuals who file for bankruptcy are at a disadvantage for a dozen years in terms of savings and even longer in terms of net worth and home ownership, according to…
Every year, when Dallas attorney Steve Kardell kicks off the corporate compliance and governance class he teaches at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, he starts by predicting the…
The top law reviews are printing fewer articles by women than men, according to a study by a Brooklyn Law School professor. She says the reason may be gender bias,…
To avoid a threatened boycott, the Association of American Law Schools won’t hold its annual meeting seminars at a hotel owned by a gay-marriage opponent.
Updated: Four groups representing law professors and legal writing professionals are threatening to boycott the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools because of the views of the…
The law library director for Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law says law students today are more impatient and less likely to take the time to find complete…
Recent law exam questions and model answers written by Barack Obama when he was a professor touch on hot-button issues of the day, but are so even-handed as to be…
Adam Palmer’s day job is working as policy counsel for .ORG, a public interest Internet domain registry based in Reston, Va. But his avocation is protecting children from Internet predators,…
Updated: The construction schedule for a new, expanded library will determine whether fall classes will be held at the troubled Barkley School of Law in…
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