When Should Legal Rules be Used to Redistribute Income? Debates about income inequality are everywhere. Yet the conventional wisdom in Law and Economics is tha ...

Conventional wisdom in law and economics holds that legal rules should be designed solely to promote efficiency, leaving income redistribution to the tax system. But when does this principle hold true ...

The Trump administration’s antitrust leaders have recently announced plans to maintain the Biden administration’s enforcement priorities, catching many observers by surprise. Andrew Ferguson, the new ...

Clinical Professor Erica Zunkel received a phone call that produced “one of the most powerful moments of [her] professional ...

Professor Emeritus Bill Landes late last year completed teaching his final class, capping a fifty-year career teaching at the ...

Rice became a methamphetamine user at a young age in Galesburg, Illinois, and had many scrapes with the law, including a ...

Bright, 62, of Columbia, is the chief judge of the Appellate Court and will succeed Raheem Mullins as an associate justice, a position Mullins vacated upon his confirmation as chief justice of the ...

US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexican , Canadian, and Chinese imports rest on shaky legal ground. But they are unlikely to be struck down in court. By exploiting a gap between the ...

"Ed brings a rare combination of high-level White House, DOJ, and private sector experience to Latham," said Rich Trobman, Chair and Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins. "His proficiency in ...

The Law School is home to more than 60 student organizations with a wide variety of purposes, and new student groups are always being formed to meet the changing needs of the student body. The ...