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JURIST Guest Columnist Pascale Duparc Portier of the National University of Ireland (Galway) Faculty of Law says that the mass protests in France against the new First Employment Contract (CPE) legislation may be reminiscent of the 1968 Paris student uprising,...

The Japanese government is planning to put English translations of its business-related laws on the internet in order to avoid their misinterpretation by foreign companies. Right now there are no official translations, although unofficial private English translations of multiple...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane has offered a $45.7 million settlement to 75 clergy sex abuse complainants. Some observers wonder how the diocese can afford the settlement since filing for bankruptcy [Seattle Times...

Officials and community advocates in New Orleans have proposed using the Roman law concept of usufruct to allow authorities to gain temporary control of privately owned homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina . Coming into Louisiana state...

The Clearing House Association v. Eliot Spitzer, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Sydney H. Stein, October 12, 2005 [ruling that New York attorney general Spitzer is barred from investigating national banks' lending practices,...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer from investigating national banks' lending practices, which Spitzer believed to be charging minorities higher interest rates on home mortgage loans. US District Judge Sydney H....

JURIST Guest Columnist Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, says that the new federal bankruptcy legislation signed into law this past Spring weeds...

Leading Wednesday's states brief, the California Supreme Court held today without comment that it will not immediately review a March ruling that declared the state ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. In that ruling, Superior Court...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, the US Senate Banking Committee has approved Rep. Christopher Cox 's nomination to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The nomination will now go before the...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been sued by the US Department of the Treasury's Comptroller of the Currency and by the Clearing House , a...