She was a longtime paralegal in Charlotte, North Carolina, working for a consulting company that helps law firms with ... justice system are common knowledge, but our civil legal system, which ...

College sports are on the edge of a significant shift, and Tennessee just threw gasoline on the fire. On May 1, Governor Bill ...

Conservatives and Republicans tend to rely on common sense, while Democrats and liberals rely on expert opinion, and both ...

The race to fill the new seat on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas will be decided in the November General Election, ...

Great Britain and Ireland are the only members of the European Union with legal systems based on common law*. Civil law prevails in all the other member states. These two traditions are the basis ...

The move was lauded by supporters who said the race-neutral discipline envisioned by the order is a common sense step ... students could be violating civil rights law and lose federal funds.

The push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India ... true equality requires dismantling inequities within Hindu personal law first. Reform is needed in areas like inheritance, guardianship ...

environmental safeguards and corporate taxes in the name of greater “efficiency” of common law versus civil law jurisdictions. As economist Joseph E. Stiglitz argued in 2021, from its creation ...

In prioritizing that as its marker, the index often celebrated reforms that stripped away labor protections, environmental safeguards and corporate taxes in the name of greater “efficiency” of common ...

In common law states, assets generally belong to the spouse who acquired them unless they are jointly owned. These rules determine how property and debts are divided when a marriage ends.