I joined Michael Schiavo's legal team last month, after having represented a group of bioethicists who had previously supporte...

Drafting arbitration agreements no longer warrants copying a form or using boilerplate language in commercial contracts. And "...

What is otherwise a dry subject - technical analysis of statutorily imposed administrative exhaustion requirements in a prison...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Like so many others, she walked into a legal services office afraid, not knowing where to tu...

Forum Column By Judith Daar The legal machinations over the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who has languished in a ...

An insurer occasionally asserts the policyholder made a material misrepresentation or concealed a material fact in applying fo...

Forum Column - By Ashutosh Bhagwat - This month, Michael K. Powell will step down from his position as chairman of the Federal...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Stuart Miller - On Feb. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Lingle v. Chevron U...

The law does not tolerate police unreasonably shooting across a school yard to stop a fleeing suspect. Why should it tolerate ...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Perhaps the silliest debate now going on is whether it is appropriate for American court...

The Feb. 14 decision in Yoo v. Robi, 2005 DJDAR 1983, is the latest action in a generations-old practice of compromisin...

The latest U.S. Supreme Court case to address prison violence, Johnson v. California , 2005 DJDAR 2118, concerns an inmate's c...

For many years now, I have had this suspicion that things are not what they seem to be. This troubling suspicion I had stuffed...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - California lawmakers have done a lot of talking about the state's housing shortage witho...

As the debate over Lawrence Summers' remarks keeps building and building, I confess to feeling a strange thrill.

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - A recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, United States v. Afshari , 392 F.3d...

I recently had a birthday. It wasn't a good one. It came at the same time of the year as all the others. I guess it wasn't all...

Applying Islamic law, Saudi Arabian authorities periodically cut off the hands of thieves. To most Americans, the practice is ...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Benjamin G. Shatz - Each new year, federal appellate practice changes as the courts adopt new...

What is the state Supreme Court's current big-picture view of torts? In other words, should the law encourage or discourage ce...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Laurie Levenson and Neil Siegel - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. B...

Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - Two days ago, a five-justice majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. B...

There are so many instances of federal courts disregarding meritorious prisoner rights claims, especially those brought by inm...

Forum Column - By Paul D. Fogel and David DeJesus - As we face the prospect of a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, the subject of ju...

The reaction to UCLA professor Richard H. Sander's recent study of preferential university admission is freighted with more em...

Forum Column - By David Lash - The Bill of Rights is basically an anti-democratic document. And for that reason, it has done m...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Jennifer R. Bush - For the past five years, and arguably longer, the U.S. Court of Appe...

Many people fondly remember Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, though such memories do not concern any significant legislation. ...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - For years, employment lawyers have been advocates for training supervisors as a practi...

Franco Zefferelli's recent movie, "Callas Forever," is primarily about artistic integrity. But it offers deeper insight and le...