While lawyering is more art than science, science—specifically neuroscience—has something to say about professional development. Its insights into the brain can help lawyers apply precedents more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Supreme Court says a precedent has been "abandoned," the real work has already been done. That process is not unique to ...

Jay Z is continuing his legal battle against the anonymous accuser who previously alleged that he and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her, and is now pointing to recent developments in Diddy’s ...

One way to do that is by what scholars call "narrowing" precedents, such as by limiting them almost exclusively to the factual circumstances in which they arose. Critics have disparaged this practice ...

Christa Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection drug on Sept. 30. As of Oct. 6, her lawyers reported she was awake and ...

Key question in Senate hearings: Would Kavanaugh overturn Supreme Court precedents? Wall Street Journal: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for ...