Lawyers for the popular video app warned of ‘staggering’ consequences for free speech if ban is allowed to happen.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on US law
Displaying 1 - 20 of 59 articles
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
The ramifications of a US court case where parents of a school shooter have been prosecuted are explained by a legal expert.
In the past, when courts considered disputes over what to do with no-longer-wanted embryos, they typically considered them property. The Alabama ruling challenges this legal precedent.
Anthony Albanese has flagged a crack-down on people’s personal details being shared online without consent. But like so much of the internet, it’s hard to police.
With co-defendants of Donald Trump accepting plea bargains, an expert in criminal law explains what these legal agreements are and how they work.
Running a campaign or serving as president from jail would pose untold challenges, but it’s not prohibited.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
It is the first time an incumbent or former US president has been charged with a criminal offence.
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court case could clarify – and shift the norm.
Trump isn’t the first modern president with legal problems, but he would be the first former president to be indicted for alleged crimes.
Most of the election-related lawsuits now before state courts focus on fine details of election procedures. This can be a costly, time-consuming process for state courts.
Major Supreme Court decisions and reversals last term are leaving some people, including this scholar on constitutional politics, wondering – what’s going on with the court?
It’s a long-standing principle that people should be able to read the laws that govern them. But many technical rules and standards are hard to find and access, even for lawyers or court officials.
Lower federal court judges follow a formal code of ethics, but this does not apply to Supreme Court justices, leaving potential conflicts of interest unchecked.
By a 6 to 3 majority, the Supreme Court decided to overrule the landmark Roe decision and end almost 50 years of access to abortion being a constitution right.
A Supreme Court scholar explains the significance of the recent Supreme Court leaked draft opinion.
The Supreme Court is a leading player in enacting policy in the US. But it has no army to enforce its decisions; its authority rests solely on its legitimacy.
The discovery of oil and gas made members of the Osage Nation among the richest people in the world. But it also made them targets for exploitation.
Top contributors
-
Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
-
Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
-
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
-
Professor of Law, Boston University
-
Senior Lecturer in Law, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University, RMIT University
-
Lecturer, RMIT University
-
Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
-
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
-
Professor of Law, Stetson University
-
Professor of Law, Wayne State University
-
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
-
Researcher, Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley
-
Professor & Director, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
-
Associate Director, Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, University of Oxford
