At 10 a.m., on an Indian summer Monday in some future October, a switch will activate two cameras focused on the U.S. Supreme Court. C-SPAN will pick up the feed…
The Section of Litigation presented a high-powered U.S. Supreme Court wrap-up panel today featuring two former U.S. solictors general and a nationally known Stanford Law School professor providing commentary at…
Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet believes Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent majority opinion striking down a ban on handguns in the home was a compromise decision, crafted to appeal to…
After years of wrangling and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court over the courthouse displays featuring the Ten Commandments, a federal judge has agreed to allow two Kentucky counties…
Calling on as many legal history teachers as he could, a Valparaiso University law school professor has come up with an intriguing list of the “100 Most Creative Moments in…
Although law firms in the U.S. aren’t currently allowed to sell shares to non-attorney investors, American partners are keeping a close eye on the growing number of foreign competitors that…
With just 5 percent of the world’s population, criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations are “mystified and appalled” that the United States has nearly a quarter of its…
As the countdown continues toward controversial military trials starting next month for terrorism suspects being detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, two prominent law professors at major universities are…
CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen has one good thing—and only one good thing—to say about John Yoo’s so-called “torture” memo: At least the Justice Department attorney was persuasive.
Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t believe it’s his job to compensate for years of misinterpretation by reinterpreting the Constitution in a distorted way.
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