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If you were to open a copy of the Wall Street Journal on February 12, 2007, you would come across an article titled U.S. May be Losing Its Appeal to Foreign Investors, Report Warns. Opening the [...]

In the past four years, the world’s attention has been focused on the American-led invasion of Iraq and the subsequent violence that has plagued that country. Reports of car bombings, suicide [...]

The United States is no stranger to pharmaceutical medicine scandals and tragedies. In the past fifty years, a number of “good drugs” have “gone bad,” resulting in severe effects for the patients [...]

In January 2006, the Bush administration articulated a position in favor of a broad conflict preemption doctrine that would immunize pharmaceutical manufacturers from civil liability when the [...]

In this Article I want to explore the treatment of certain domestic agreements in family law and to see what can be learned about law and families. It is a cliché, in discussions of family law [...]

In 2005, the Dutch Supreme Court decided a wrongful life case. During her pregnancy, a woman consulted her midwife because there were two cases of handicaps in her husband’s family, due to a [...]

This Article, “Judges as Umpires” was inspired by the Senate Judiciary hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the metaphor was again invoked [...]

The rule of law rests on the quality of legal reasoning. The rule of law requires that similar cases should be decided similarly, that each case should be decided on its merits, and that [...]

After centuries of glacial development in the English forms of action, negligence law in America began to take shape during the 1830s and 1840s as a general theory of liability for carelessly [...]