Legal Research

Weiler on his Own Trial
We had previously reported about this criminal action initiated for a book review against NYU law professor Joseph Weiler. The trial took place last week in Paris. Weiler reports on it here...

Book Reviews, Criminal Libel, and the Jurisdiction of French Courts
What are the risks of facing a criminal trial in France after writing an academic book review in English? You may think that if the book was written in English by a scholar who neither lives nor works in France, and if the reviewer is himself neither French, nor living or working in France, that could [...

Green on Leading Issues in Criminal Justice
Bruce A. Green (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Criminal Justice ? What?s Ahead? Roadblocks and New Directions (Criminal Justice, Vol. 25, p. 4, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The leadership of the ABA Criminal Justice Section...

Book Reviews, Academic Debate and Criminal Libel in France
Kate Sutherland, York University Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Book Reviews, the Common Law Tort of Defamation, and the Suppression of Scholarly Debate, at 11 German Law School 656-670 (2010)...

Effective review of the five new SCOTUS criminal justice cases
As noted in this prior post, this past week the US Supreme Court accepted five new criminal cases for its upcoming Term. This article in the Wisconsin Law Journal, headlined "High court accepts five criminal cases," reviews the group...

New Book - Careers In Criminal Law
Ellen C. Brotman, Careers in Criminal Law - The promo states: The book is organized into five different parts: Part I focuses on traditional criminal defense, including public defending, white collar criminal defense, big firm practice, solo practice and appellate...

Missing Children
Databases and organizations

Anna Nicole Smith's Legal Troubles
Court cases and legal issues related to Anna Nicole Smith

Criminal Law
If you have been arrested or mistreated by police you should speak to a criminal law attorney.

Wal-Mart
Avoids Criminal Charges over Clerk's Death

Drug Pusher
Biovail agrees to pay $24.6 million settlement in criminal lawsuit.

Katrina Victims See Justice, Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions
Katrina Victims See Justice Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions

Rituxan
FDA Reviews Cancer Medication Associated with PML

Job Site Fatalities Increase
Safety Experts Concerned