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.
After spending about 20 years in prison for shooting a Philadelphia police officer responding to a break-in call in 1966, William Barnes seemingly had paid his debt to society.
Although a politically sensitive federal civil rights trial in Texas still hasn’t gotten started as scheduled, the case this month has nonetheless been action-packed.
A defendant in a capital murder case who was represented for more than a year by private lawyers paid for by the state of Georgia has sued his trial judge…
The leading donor to UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute has reportedly pledged another $2 million to its endowment. The groundbreaking think tank focuses its research on sexual orientation law…
Updated: The Archbishop of Canterbury is front-page news throughout the United Kingdom today, facing a firestorm of criticism even from his own bishops following his reported call for Britain, at…
A fatal drug overdose of a Greenwich, Conn., surgeon is calling attention to an issue that has long troubled prosecutors: whether to prosecute witnesses.
The parent company of major newspapers in California and Illinois has taken an innovative approach to the revision of its employee handbook under the leadership of a new owner. Forgoing…
A fashion industry executive who is about to face a sexual harassment trial largely focusing on his workplace attire—or lack thereof—claims there was a legitimate business purpose for appearing at…
Authorities in Missouri found no basis on which to pursue criminal charges in the controversial case of a 13-year-old who reportedly hanged herself in 2006 in a town near St.…
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