Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The pending nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises i...

Forum Column - By Daniel Grunfeld and David A. Lash - It is now time for the opponents of public funding of legal services for...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - For a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that grossly disproportionate sentences a...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...

I got another speeding ticket. Damn! - on the Pacific Coast Highway about eight miles north of where I got my previous speedin...

The increasing resemblance of arbitration to litigation suggests that lawyers who have mastered courtroom skills can apply the...

Focus Column Appellate Law By Kathy M. Banke and Benjamin G. Shatz Isn't appealing from the judgment sufficient to challenge ...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration and the Ashcroft Justice Department have e...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By R. Duane Westup, Mark Van Buskirk and Donald J. Winkler - In a contingency case involving a $1 mil...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - If you are poor, 2003 is shaping up to be a nightmare. A declining economy is about to hit a...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - President George W. Bush's renomination of Charles Pickering Sr. and Priscilla Owen for ...

The late Justice Mildred Lillie has achieved immortality not only through her well-written opinions, but also through her pers...

Responding to the increased judicial emphasis on alternatives to litigation, California state and federal courts will introduc...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affi...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite...

The landmark employment case of Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. , 47 Cal.3d 654 (1998), examined the availability of a ...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court, as widely anticipated, has agreed to hear Grutter v. Bollinger, a rejected white applicant's ...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The hypocrisy of conservatives when it comes to federalism is well illustrated by the Ju...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy," Jane Leavey's new book on the Dodger pitching legend, remi...

Forum Column - By Stephen Rohde - First they came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim. The USA PA...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution: Pro & Con - Pro by Jeff Kichaven - Con by Robert S. Mann ...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Lawrence C. Waddington - The Specht court chose to rely on venerable rules of contract...

In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal s...

Who is entitled to attorney fees when statutes conflict with contracts? The answer may surprise some. Under a typical employme...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Secret adjudicatory proceedings, whether in a court or an administrative setting, are in...

Forum Column - By Wally Knox and David A. Lash - California has been a national leader in the fight to secure justice for Holo...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - On Sept. 13, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal law that prohibits t...

Kosovo is the only area in the world being governed by an international organization. Under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Sept. 11 brought out the best in many of us. It certainly brought out the best in a number o...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Robert Tomás Olmos - The myriad of legal issues surrounding arbitration poses "one of the ...