2013

The Philadelphia Housing Authority confronts blight and abandoned properties

How should businesses adjust their employment policies to be sure they are in compliance with the law?

Legislation that would scrap the current litigation-based system for resolving medical malpractice claims in Georgia would replace it with a government bureaucracy that would drive up costs, the bill's opponents said Wednesday.

Georgia inmates who faced the death penalty before age 18 will be resentenced.

Van der Vyver shares his memories of Nelson Mandela's presidency and leadership through reconciliation.

Over the past few decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of lawsuits over intellectual-property infringements.

The quick pace of technology and the complexities of the digital world are forcing changes in all areas of intellectual property.

A Harvard professor compared choosing a car to having kids. It's a poor reason to deny maternity coverage to struggling parents

Nordic women's university features Fineman's work on vulnerability.

There are approximately 150 land banks across the country, and Frank Alexander has been involved in creating many of them during the past 20 years.

A working group of state senators Monday heard a second round of testimony on whether the state should further privatize its foster care system.

Tuberculosis is back, and nastier than ever, Professor Polly Price writes in Newsweek.

Henry Louis Gates "African Americans" Many Rivers to Cross" features lively debates with some of America's top historians and interviews living eyewitnesses -- including former Black Panther Kathleen Neal Cleaver.

ARMs have few virtues (if any) to extol.

Decades ago, the boards of corporate America were occupied by the C.E.O. and the C.E.O.'s handpicked friends and colleagues. Today the independent director, an outside director who is not beholden to the chief, dominates the corporate board.

As we usher in the first health care enrollments under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- popularly known as "Obamacare" -- the concern over spiking insurance rates is reaching new heights and generating new fights.

Emory University led the pack in the percent of law school graduates passing the State Bar of Georgia's July exam, just barely nudging out the University of Georgia.

A former state attorney general says a bill to replace Georgia's medical malpractice tort system with a workers' compensation-like board is constitutional.

Todd M. Hughes became the first openly gay person confirmed as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

To many, the words "Gay Christian" are, at best, in tension with each other. For others, particularly those on the political right, those two words are mutually exclusive: being gay or supporting LGBT rights is utterly inconsistent with being Christian.

Double down is the advice that I would give President Obama. Do not act unilaterally. Do not ignore the debt ceiling. Do not order the Treasury to issue more debt. A debt shutdown would be a political problem that would require a political solution.

Why is the US seen as the law-enforcer-in-chief while China as the law-breaker?

The Georgia Senate is holding the second of five hearings today on a bold proposal to eliminate the state's medical malpractice system and replace it with a no-blame administrative model.

A Washington Post investigation found some investors demanded thousands in fees from homeowners far exceeding the original tax debts and then took the homes when they couldn¿t pay. About 500 properties have been lost since 2005, most in the city¿s poorest neighborhoods.

About 2,000 plaintiffs hope to get picked Sept. 30 when the Supreme Court meets privately for its first conference of the 2013 term. Less than 1% of them are likely to be rewarded.

When your financial adviser becomes either inattentive or nonresponsive to your requests, particularly those relating to information and explanation, an alarm bell should immediately go off in your mind.

The Emory Public Interest Committee Conference, "Neighbors for Sale: Modern Slavery in Atlanta," will be held Sept. 21, at Emory University School of Law.

An important but little-known episode in the story of the March on Washington unfolded on Aug. 17, 1963, in a Paris nightclub called the Living Room. James Baldwin and others living abroad met to support the upcoming March on Washington.

The Journal of Law and Religion, long the flagship publication in the field, will move to the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) at Emory University School of Law in August 2013.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the favorability rating of the US Supreme Court has fallen below 50 percent.

How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law's universal appeal?

ag-gag' laws make it illegal to gather undercover documentation and videos of cruelty to animals at factory farms , but it is precisely this kind of reporting that exposes and can help stop abuse of animals.

In its two decisions that benefit same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court neither remains silent nor makes a definitive ruling.

The nation has long struggled over what to do with problem properties, a growing liability in a still-soft real estate market. And states and municipalities often lack the laws, tools and expertise to do much about it, Alexander asserts

Edward Snowden, whose disclosures have triggered broad debate over the balance between privacy and national security, has left Hong Kong and is in Moscow, apparently headed to Ecuador.

When the Supreme Court on Monday sent Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case, back to the lower court for a second look, supporters of race-conscious policies breathed a sigh of relief.

Immigration among Latinos and population growth among African-Americans constitute a voting majority that votes together cohesively. That obviously changes the politics and makes section 5 just unimportant in the larger context.

Emory Law Professor Michael Perry says the DOMA ruling will likely invite challenges to state same-sex marriage bans. But he doesn't expect those challenges to be filed in Georgia.

The U.S. Supreme Court has surprised just about everyone with its decision on affirmative action By a 7-to-1 vote, the court largely sidestepped making what could have been a sweeping ruling in a test case from Texas.

Mary L. Dudziak thinks that to get to the heart of a matter -- in law and in scholarship -- it can be helpful to start at the edges. To understand domestic law, she looks to its global impact; to understand contemporary war, she looks to its past.

When businesses give judges money, they usually get what they want.

Life will be much less stressful if you think of your home primarily as a consumption cost rather than as an investment.

The revelations this week that the federal government has been scooping up records of telephone calls inside the United States for seven years, and secretly collecting information from Internet companies on foreigners overseas for nearly six years, have elicited predictable outrage from liberals and civil libertarians.

Don't blame Russia for lack of intelligence sharing in Boston bombing suspect.

There are nearly 30 law schools that have or soon will offer a master's degree for nonlawyers, up from just a handful two years ago. Emory University School of Law is among them.

If you plan to go it alone as an investor, without the guidance of a professional, it is crucial to educate yourself.

Emory University School of Law has announced the integration of its Office of Career Services with its recently established Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy (the Center), furthering its commitment to provide the best professional development resources for students.

Individuals, for the most part, fall into one of two categories regarding their attitudes toward work: Either they live to work, or they work to live. If your heir falls squarely in the former category, a dramatic change in wealth is not likely to affect his or her motivation to work.

The debate over whether the Iraq War was really all about oil may never be fully resolved in some minds, but one thing is clear -- either way, Iraq has yet to really cash in.

A U.S. Supreme Court clash over the patenting of human genes left several justices searching for a middle ground in a case with the potential to redefine rights in the biotechnology and agricultural industries.

As the debate on U.S. immigration reform continues in Congress, Polly Price, professor at Emory University School of Law, will study a lesser-known, public health component of the issue -- the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis along the southern U.S. border.

I suspect that if we looked at the tax returns of every member of Congress we would see something close to a 100% itemization rate. Compare that to only a third of the American public, and the numbers would suggest that repeal is the best way forward.

Robert Schapiro on California's Proposition 8

Nixon's secret bombing campaign in Cambodia is used to justify Obama's targeted killing of Americans suspected of terrorism.

Melissa Carter, director of the Barton Child Law and Policy Center, discusses a proposal to overhaul Georgia¿s juvenile justice system that has passed the House and is expected to be before the Senate this week.

A new student-founded clinic at Emory University School of Law will focus on justice for Atlanta-area veterans by providing free legal representation for disability benefit claims and appeal hearings.

Emory Law School ranked 23rd in the nation in the annual U.S. News best graduate schools edition, up from 23 last year.

Dean Robert Schapiro assesses the Supreme Court's rulings on two same-sex marriage cases that could become legal landmarks.

Laurie Blank on how to define the battlefield in the age of armed drones

The leak of a White Paper on targeting killings is getting the expected attention from law bloggers and others, with much commentary focused on whether the legal analysis is correct, for example the definition of "imminence."

A Georgia House-Senate study commission has released a new report on human trafficking in Georgia. It updates and expands a report from three years ago, which resulted in a 2011 law imposing much tougher penalties on those who engage in the sex trafficking of children.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the 9th Circuit committed a legal error in holding the Los Angeles County Flood Control District liable for violations of its Clean Water Act (CWA) municipal separate storm sewer system (or MS4) pollution discharge permit.

Will there be "but one heart to the globe?" asks Walt Whitman in a poem that provides an epigraph in Mark Mazower's new book, Governing the World: The History of an Idea. At the center of this expansive work is the question of how Americans and Europeans have imagined the world, its peoples, and its nations. Is there but one global identity, as Whitman surmises?