Forum Column - By Charles Patterson and Stephen Rohde - Roger Keith Coleman was convicted in 1982 of the rape and murder of hi...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - One of the most dramatic changes in constitutional law during the Rehnquist court was th...

You know the story about the patient relating a terrible nightmare he had the previous night. "Doctor, it was horrendous. I dr...

Forum column - By Elena E. Smith - Apparently, some people would like to live in Rod Stewart's world - a place where, if you t...

Asking "fact or fiction?" is not the same as asking whether a memoir - or, for that matter a legal argument or a justification...

As I sleepily read The New York Times over my morning coffee two weeks ago, I was startled into wakefulness by a passionate ed...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - Much has been written about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer's recent book "Active ...

Several years ago while prosecuting a DUI case, the judge quizzed me about the police report. Trying to see if the case could ...

For a while, the state Supreme Court did not substantively address the issue of punitive damages until its important decisions...

By Erwin Chemerinsky - The U.S. Senate should refuse to confirm Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court because of his almos...

State and federal courts continue to shape the course of alternative dispute resolution in all its formats. Issues of contract...

Foucs Column - By Benjamin Shatz and Michael M. Berger - Once upon a time conventional wisdom held that appellate courts were ...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - No one should be forced to discriminate or to facilitate discrimination based on race, g...

Forum Column - By Wayne R. Terry - The so-called Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act - the reform of the B...

Focus Column - By Jens B. Koepke - Section 170.6(a)(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that a peremptory challenge "ma...

"Sounds like!" I said. Screamed, really. That's what I said, but what I did was - scream. Maybe shriek is what I did. Whatever...

With corporations still reeling from the expansive ramifications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, another complication may b...

Focus Column - By Benjamin G. Shatz and Monica Youn - Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright protection automatically attache...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The proposal to split the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a politically motivated a...

University of Chicago Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein's recent work "Radicals in Robes," published by Basic Books in Sep...

Federal courts interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. Section 1, et seq.) and California courts applying the Calif...

Forum Column - By Joseph H. Cooper - Here's a lawsuit I'd really like to see: Joseph C. Wilson IV and Valerie Plame Wilson v. ...

There are a handful of tort principles in which a lot of time passes before any meaningful activity. Then, all of a sudden, th...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Harriet Miers' nomination poses an enormous challenge for the Senate in determining whet...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A Jacobs and Edward E. Kim - Family Code Section 852(a) requires that a transmutation, which is a c...

"A wonderful thing happened after the second episode of the reality series 'The Law Firm' aired a few months ago - it was canc...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - The annual anticipation surrounding the First Monday in October is heightened this year as ...

Since last year, two California appellate courts have taken the still-developing law regarding insurance broker liability in c...

Can a woman have a family and a successful academic career? The jury is still out, despite the fact that "family-friendly" has...

Once upon a time, "ambiguity is king" dominated in California with respect to the interpretation of an insurance policy. Then,...