Tag: Featured
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Unions
Unions in the United States Legal Materials The Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations (BNA Books) tells you each union’s officers, function, office locations, etc. The Institute of Industrial Relations posts links to union Web sites in the U.S. and in other countries. The DOL’s Office of […]
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Unions
Unions in the United States Legal Materials The Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations (BNA Books) tells you each union’s officers, function, office locations, etc. The Institute of Industrial Relations posts links to union Web sites in the U.S. and in other countries. The DOL’s Office of […]
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Legal Realism
Legal Realism in the United States A school of jurisprudence that stresses behavioral and political factors as the most critical to judicial decision making. Legal realism minimizes the impact of abstract legal rules and principles on deciding particular cases. Leading legal realists, such as […]
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Sanctioned Countries
Sanctioned Countries in the United States Note: for more information, please visit the trade sanctions entry. OFAC Sanctions Lists: Legislation and Regulations The List of Foreign Financial Institutions Subject to Part 561 (the Part 561 List), 31 C.F.R. part 561 Western Balkans […]
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Sanctioned Countries
Sanctioned Countries in the United States Note: for more information, please visit the trade sanctions entry. OFAC Sanctions Lists: Legislation and Regulations The List of Foreign Financial Institutions Subject to Part 561 (the Part 561 List), 31 C.F.R. part 561 Western Balkans […]
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Civil Law
Civil Law in the United States Law concerned with private rights and remedies. Civil law is different from criminal law in that it focuses on transactions of a private kind. Criminal law, on the other hand, prescribes and proscribes behavior in an attempt to protect society from harm. The […]
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Civil Law
Civil Law in the United States Law concerned with private rights and remedies. Civil law is different from criminal law in that it focuses on transactions of a private kind. Criminal law, on the other hand, prescribes and proscribes behavior in an attempt to protect society from harm. The […]
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Contract Law
Contract Law in the United States Economic Perspective of Contract Law In An Economic Analysis of Law (1973), Judge Richard A. Posner (a former University of Chicago law professor) suggests that contract law performs three significant economic functions. First, it helps maintain incentives […]
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Contract Law
Contract Law in the United States Economic Perspective of Contract Law In An Economic Analysis of Law (1973), Judge Richard A. Posner (a former University of Chicago law professor) suggests that contract law performs three significant economic functions. First, it helps maintain incentives […]
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Minors Cybercrime State Legislation
Minors Cybercrime State Legislation in the United States State Cybersecurity in General The top five state-level priorities for cybersecurity are: Escalating Attacks and Network Intrusions/Hacking Data Classification and Protection Protecting Critical IT Infrastructure Risk […]
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Minors Cybercrime State Legislation
Minors Cybercrime State Legislation in the United States State Cybersecurity in General The top five state-level priorities for cybersecurity are: Escalating Attacks and Network Intrusions/Hacking Data Classification and Protection Protecting Critical IT Infrastructure Risk […]
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Federal Regulations
Federal Regulations in the United States Federal Agency Regulatory Review Process Thomas W. Merrill & Kathryn Tongue Watts, in their paper Agency Rules with the Force of Law: The Original Convention, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 467, 470 (2002): “An unarticulated assumption took hold sometime after […]
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Federal Regulations
Federal Regulations in the United States Federal Agency Regulatory Review Process Thomas W. Merrill & Kathryn Tongue Watts, in their paper Agency Rules with the Force of Law: The Original Convention, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 467, 470 (2002): “An unarticulated assumption took hold sometime after […]
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Classes of Receivers
Classes of Receivers in the United States Classes of Corporate Receivers Corporate receivers may include receivers of the following classes: receivers appointed pendente lite of property that is the subject matter of litigation, such as a receiver appointed in a suit to foreclose a […]
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor in the United States Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since October 1998. She has been hailed as one of the […]