Conservative lawyers and academics are voicing support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, praise that could soften criticism from the right and provide cover for any Republican senators inclined to vote for her nomination...
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Goodwin Liu to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco...
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think thank, said Kagan's actions at Harvard raise important legal questions...
Will the US Supreme Court further cut back on the scope of patent protection? That’s the question courts and commentators alike are askling as they await the Court’s decision in the Bilski case, which deals with business method patents...
It’s wrong to judge a Supreme Court nominee on one issue. And she may not be a great scholar. But so what? Libertarian Richard Epstein finds for the defendant...
Elena Kagan has been all of these things, charting a careful and, some might say, calculated path — never revealing too much of herself, never going too far out on a political limb — that has led her to the spot she occupies today...
Hoover IP² is reviewing the premises of the US patent system to address questions of scope, specification, duration, and economic impact of that system.
The Conte Initiative on Immigration Reform aims to improve immigration law by providing innovative ideas and clear improvements to every part of the system, from border security to green cards to temporary work visas.