Definition of Equity Definition of Equity In English law (Anglo-American law), a legal system that developed to supplement ...

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the next two months, as a recent leak of a draft decision indicated that it would, it will mark a major turning point in how Americans understand their ...

Law, COMMON (Lat. communis, general, of general application; lex, law). The term is of English origin and is used to describe the juridical principles and general rules regulating the possession, use ...

IN THE summer of 2013 British royalists were eagerly awaiting the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child. If the couple had had a girl instead of bonny Prince George, she would have ...

The common law plays an outsized role in the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar successive prosecutions by the states and the federal government. The ...

What are the real differences between common and civil law systems? Probably not the ones lawyers typically think about, said Harvard Law School Professor Holger Spamann S.J.D. ’09 last week. To ...

Professor Adrian Vermeule’s newest book is likely to raise a few judicial eyebrows. “Law and the Limits of Reason,” just published by Oxford University Press, is a broad-based criticism of the ...