Although the affinities between the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Seventh Amendment right to civil jury trial seem strong, there are crucial differences. The first concerns ...
Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...
What can civil procedure in the legal arena teach us about relationships? If you are a law student, lawyer, or know someone who is, you have probably heard the hardest, most boring course in law ...
For over fifty years, the Supreme Court has recognized that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of a criminal defendant after a mid ...
Some people think there are no winners in divorce court. While I like to have a more optimistic outlook, it goes without saying that family law cases sometimes yield unhappy litigants. With emotions ...
On May 13, 2015, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, opined in Cynthia Lozano v. WCAB (B258000) that a 2009 amendment to Labor Code section 3212.1 may be applied retroactively to an ...
Amartya Sen, the eminent philosopher-economist, invokes an old distinction between ‘niti’ and ‘nyay’ in his 2009 classic, The Idea of Justice (Allen Lane). Both relate to justice. Among several uses ...
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