Texas Law
Johan As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously looked back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the peak it had reached three centuries before.”…
Georgetown Law
Out of all the laws of salesmanship, the first one to learn is to get a prospect’s name. Under the law, private equity is taxed in exactly the same manner…
University of Illinois College of Law
Stay ahead of key dates and events; inquire about financial aid options; and get help with questions when you apply to Suffolk University Law School. Suffolk Law Alumni Magazine asks…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Yet Ancient Greek law contained major constitutional innovations in the development of democracy. The most prominent economic analyst of law is 1991 Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase, whose first major…
Georgetown Law
We are the voice of solicitors, driving excellence in the profession and safeguarding the rule of law. A similar tendency to seek definitions which are distinct from those used in…
Yale Law School
Kelsen believed that although law is separate from morality, it is endowed with “normativity”, meaning we ought to obey it. While laws are positive “is” statements (e.g. the fine for…
University of Michigan Law School
The idea of property raises many further philosophical and political issues. Locke argued that our “lives, liberties and estates” are our property because we own our bodies and mix our…
Georgetown Law
Conflict of laws, or private international law in civil law countries, concerns which jurisdiction a legal dispute between private parties should be heard in and which jurisdiction’s law should be…
Yale Law School
Hegel believed that civil society and the state were polar opposites, within the scheme of his dialectic theory of history. The modern dipole state–civil society was reproduced in the theories…
University of Michigan Law School
Thriving in Law School orientation programming helped to lay the groundwork for success for incoming students from diverse backgrounds. Professor Denise Gilman is a guest on the NPR program “All…