Legal History

Law in Eighteenth Century English Literature
Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick School of Law, has published "Examining Law Through the Lens of Literature: The Formation of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England," in the journal Law & Humanities (forthcoming)...

Stern on Originality & the Public Domain in !8th Century England
Simon Stern (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) has posted Copyright, Originality, and the Public Domain in Eighteenth-Century England (ORIGINALLY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT, Reginald McGinnis, ed....

Cornell Law Review Symposium - U.S. Food and Drug Regulation in Its First Century and Beyond
The recently published Cornell Law Review Symposium, "U.S. Food and Drug Regulation in Its First Century and Beyond," includes the following articles: James T. O'Reilly, Losing Deference in the FDA's Second Century: Judicial Review, Politics & a Diminished Legacy of...

More on Gender
Jill Lepore has a very interesting and provocative essay in a recent New Yorker, teasing apart distinctions between fact and fantasy, between works of popular history and works of popular fiction...

Postal Subsidies for News and the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine:
As I briefly mentioned yesterday, my principal claim is that eighteenth-century decisions about postal policy -- legislative decisions -- shaped judge-made constitutional doctrine much later...

Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library
From the Cornell Law Library's InSITE website reviews: We learn that Harvard Law School Library digitized its collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British crime broadsides, covering the years 1707 to 1891...

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

Lawsuit Filed Against Legacy Health Care Facilities for Nursing Home Abuse
Legacy Health Care Facilities Face Class Action Over Allegations of Abuse

Century Aluminum Company
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Century Aluminum Company
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud