Did Socrates really die after ingesting that hemlock? Check out Socrates v. the Republic of Greece and Olympus Bigpharm Ltd., decision of the Ancient High Court of Southern Athens, no doubt recently discovered by anthropologist lawyers.
Updated: A Florida law student won an award after arguing in a paper that the United States was conceived as a white country, and federal courts “have the power to arrest the dispossession of white America.”
A Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Since it was seized from the Knights Templar in the 14th century, the Inner Temple in London has housed acolytes of a different sort: men (and eventually women) who serve as advocates of the law. It’s also the setting of “A Case of Mice and Murder.”
Lawyers have plenty of reasons to feel overwhelmed these days. Beyond taking on our clients’ problems as our own, technology is roiling the bar, and the courts and politics feels more contentious than ever, sowing anxiety and uncertainty in an already-stressed profession.
The state of California is filing a lawsuit that seeks to set aside President Donald Trump’s order sending at least 2,000 state National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests there over immigration raids, the state announced Monday.
In Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution, historian and former ABA Journal editor Richard Brust lifts the veil on a case that laid the groundwork for some much more famous civil rights victories.
An en banc federal appeals court overturned its 1995 decision last month when it ruled for a library that removed 17 books with themes that included racism, gender identity and sexuality.
Beat writing became literature with the publication of the poem “Howl”—a stunning, unsettling, raw and rhythmic epic of anguish written by Allen Ginsberg.
While snowbirding in Florida, I find I cannot escape the tsunami of lawyers’ billboard ads inundating the state’s roads and highways, trying to attract motorist related business.
Most Americans believe in the U.S. Constitution’s balance of powers, but a significant percentage of Americans want one branch of government to have more power than the others, according to the seventh ABA Survey of Civic Literacy.
This month, Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony will present the world premiere of composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo’s Loving v. Virginia, an operatic retelling of the events leading to the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that declared laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional and set the stage for decades of subsequent advances in civil rights.
As the landmark 40th annual ABA Techshow wrapped up in Chicago on Saturday morning, 14 former Techshow chairs reflected on how much technology has changed and evolved over the years—and what’s stayed the same.
Eric Rudolph had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since May 1998, identified as a prime suspect in a string of bombings that began in July 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics with a blast that killed one person and injured 100 others.
