By JUSTIN R. LA MORT
President Obama was able to pay off his student loans only after authoring two bestselling books and becoming a prominent figure on the national political scene. This is not a strategy that can easily be replicated.

By IVANA DEYRUP
On June 25th of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts… Justice Scalia indicated that the practical effects of the decision would be limited, writing, “[T]he sky will not fall.” However, some attorneys reached the opposite conclusion in the days immediately following the ruling…

By ANTHONY KAMMER
Richard Posner’s A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression is about a macro-economic crisis. It is also a surprisingly inward-looking book.

By MICHAEL SEROTA

“Having differences of opinion .  .  .  it’s absolutely essential.  It’s only through the process of disagreement and debate that bad ideas get tossed out, and good ideas get refined and made …

by IAN FEIN, HEATHER MATSUMOTO, TYLER MCNISH, and JESLYN MILLER†
The Kyoto Protocol—despite its successes[1]—has not put the world on a path toward climate stabilization.  Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew four times faster between 2000 …

by JONATHAN T. MENITOVE
Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on January 15, 2009, Senator Patrick Leahy gaveled the Senate Judiciary Committee to order. Seated before the Committee was Eric Holder, then President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to become …

by GREGORY BRAZEAL
The wide cast of characters whose behavior shapes the creation of federal laws in the United States, from congressional leaders to committee chairs, from lobbyists to constituents, from the President to the media, …

by CARMEL SHACHAR
Increasingly, ethics conflicts in hospitals are adjudicated not through the judicial system but through hospital ethics committees. Ethics committees resolve disagreements over treatment plans, interpretations of do not resuscitate orders, and other medical …

BY EVA DUGOFF
Since Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the case that “invented” judicial review, the Supreme Court has exercised this power sparingly; that is, until recently. In the 1860s the Supreme Court, exercising its power …

BY NEIL GORMLEY
Is free trade irreconcilable with sustainable development? Some environmental groups, viewing the regime of international trade and investment liberalization as an obstacle to effective environmental protection, suggest so. While many have criticized specific …