In the wake of Watergate, Gerald Ford appointed eminent lawyer and scholar Edward H. Levi to the post of attorney general – and thus gave him the onerous task of restoring legitimacy to a discredited Department of Justice. Levi was famously fair-mind...

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century...

How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused pri...

Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like "World of Warcraft", "Second Life", and "Free Realms", people are making friends, building communities, creating art, and making real money. Business is...

Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerou...