Steven Calabresi is an important figure in the US legal profession, the holder of a named chair at a top-flight institution (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) and the Co-founder and Board Chairman ...

Not every constitutional law question has two sides. We don’t lose sleep, for example, over how many senators represent each state (two), or whether representation in the House must be proportional ...

It's no secret that public defender's offices have been getting creamed by resource shortages. Today, for example, the Wichita Eagle reports that the Sedgwick County public defender's office has, for ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a criminal defendant who said his Sixth Amendment rights were violated at a trial during which he was convicted of fatally shooting a two-year-old boy. Justice ...

WASHINGTON — Dwayne Giles, who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in south Los Angeles, asked the Supreme Court yesterday to overturn his murder conviction because he was denied the right to “confront” ...