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Now that he has been re-elected as president, many of Donald Trump’s legal cases are likely to disappear, or at least be postponed until his term is over.
Whether the popular video app ends up sold, banned or untouched, the ruling in favor of the government’s national security claims has implications for free speech.
Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
The ramifications of a US court case where parents of a school shooter have been prosecuted are explained by a legal expert.
In the past, when courts considered disputes over what to do with no-longer-wanted embryos, they typically considered them property. The Alabama ruling challenges this legal precedent.
Anthony Albanese has flagged a crack-down on people’s personal details being shared online without consent. But like so much of the internet, it’s hard to police.
With co-defendants of Donald Trump accepting plea bargains, an expert in criminal law explains what these legal agreements are and how they work.
Running a campaign or serving as president from jail would pose untold challenges, but it’s not prohibited.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
It is the first time an incumbent or former US president has been charged with a criminal offence.
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court case could clarify – and shift the norm.
Trump isn’t the first modern president with legal problems, but he would be the first former president to be indicted for alleged crimes.
Most of the election-related lawsuits now before state courts focus on fine details of election procedures. This can be a costly, time-consuming process for state courts.
Major Supreme Court decisions and reversals last term are leaving some people, including this scholar on constitutional politics, wondering – what’s going on with the court?
It’s a long-standing principle that people should be able to read the laws that govern them. But many technical rules and standards are hard to find and access, even for lawyers or court officials.
Lower federal court judges follow a formal code of ethics, but this does not apply to Supreme Court justices, leaving potential conflicts of interest unchecked.
By a 6 to 3 majority, the Supreme Court decided to overrule the landmark Roe decision and end almost 50 years of access to abortion being a constitution right.
A Supreme Court scholar explains the significance of the recent Supreme Court leaked draft opinion.
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, Albany Law School
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Researcher, Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor & Director, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University