This essay, which is aimed primarily but not exclusively at audiences in the field of philosophy, originated in a lecture prepared for a series on quot;Natural Moral Law and Contemporary Societyquot; at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. Using the Supreme Court's...

The U.S. Supreme Court has now decided 14 antitrust cases in a row in favor of the defendant. But this does not indicate an embrace of the conservative Chicago School over the moderate Harvard School. To the contrary, on every issue the Court has addressed where those two schools are in...

Dietrich Murswiek, Universität Freiburg, analysiert in seinem Kommentar die Maßnahmen zur »Euro-Rettung« unter verfassungsrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten.

Finally, an analysis of the present situation in EU gambling and sport betting after the recent ECJ decisions will be attempted, via scenarios from primary (national MS practices, policies, and case law) and secondary (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2006; European Gaming and Betting...

Juries attract both stiff criticism and unqualified praise. Here, we examine how the American juries actually behave in tort cases, based on archival research, post-trial interviews with jurors, experiments with real and simulated juries, observations of real jury deliberations, and surveys of...

Brief of Tri Valley Law as Amicus Curiae in support of the Hobby Lobby parties in their challenge to the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act. This brief was the basis for a subsequent paper on the case, specifically, and the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause implications of the...

This article reports on a study of potential systemic bias in the resolution of ambiguous legal issues by investment treaty arbitrators. It outlines tentative but significant findings that the arbitrators in general tended to favour (a) foreign investors over states in general, (b) foreign...

On February 18, 2005, President Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), which had been passed by the 109th Congress. The stated purpose of the legislation was “[t]o amend the procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for...

In R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (a) held that the UK Government had no prerogative power to initiate the formal process whereby the UK will withdraw from the EU and (b) declined to recognise any requirement that the...