419 ABA Journal Legal Theory articles.
Victims injured by a Minneapolis bridge collapse earlier this year are asking the government to establish a 9/11-style compensation fund to cover their medical expenses and pay a currently unspecified…
Oct 26, 2007 10:18 PM CDT
It doesn’t yet have the force of law. But a newspaper writer has penned a proposed bill of rights for diners, establishing standards for everything from the right to receive…
Oct 25, 2007 4:34 PM CDT
It isn’t just Thailand where a troubling trade in underage sex, involving the abuse of victims too young to consent, is widely reputed to exist.
Right here in the U.S.,…
Oct 19, 2007 5:24 PM CDT
It isn’t just Sen. Larry Craig who’s changed his mind about pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge. The case of Brooklyn man who spent a night in jail after…
Oct 18, 2007 11:31 PM CDT
A frozen embryo has not only retained a lawyer to file a federal court case over planned stem cell research but has strong objections to a previously enacted California ballot…
Oct 17, 2007 9:03 PM CDT
In the latest of a series of aggressive efforts by the state of Massachusetts to deal with the local effects of a national crisis in mortgage lending, the governor announced…
Oct 15, 2007 8:53 PM CDT
As efforts continue to address controversial killings of civilians in Iraq by private American military contractors, some United States officials reportedly are asking whether such conduct could put the U.S.…
Oct 15, 2007 6:46 PM CDT
If Sen. Larry Craig is lucky, a Minnesota judge, as expected, will refuse to let him revoke his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge.
That’s because a trial over…
Sep 28, 2007 5:11 PM CDT
The notorious Washington state killer who murdered 48 women didn’t get the death penalty. And Robert Yates Jr. didn’t, either, when he confessed in a Spokane County plea deal to…
Sep 27, 2007 6:25 PM CDT
Although thousands of cases are being pursued alleging a link between childhood vaccines and autism (see “No Longer Immune” in the July 2006 ABA Journal), it’s doubtful…
Sep 26, 2007 10:33 PM CDT
“Bush Lied. They Died.”
Those words, on a T-shirt, along with the names of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the Iraq war, have sparked outrage—and legislation in five…
Sep 24, 2007 8:50 PM CDT
A renowned law and philosophy professor at New York University has been awarded a prestigious prize for his scholarship. Its value is variously given as $750,000 or $800,000.
Ronald Dworkin,…
Sep 20, 2007 8:34 PM CDT
A lack of tough love has cost two Washington state parents their cars. Because they didn’t act quickly enough to snatch back their car keys from a son who apparently…
Sep 19, 2007 11:48 PM CDT
A testy federal judge has ordered a New York City lawyer to pay $24,000 in a fine and attorney fees for filing a frivolous suit on behalf of a Hurricane…
Sep 19, 2007 11:32 AM CDT
An all-star faculty lineup at Stanford Law School is offering an ambitious and perhaps unprecedented course for nonattorneys.
In a single quarter, 12 professors will attempt to teach graduate students…
Sep 18, 2007 5:24 PM CDT
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