U.S. Supreme Court Upholds ICWA
In Haaland v. Brackeen, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause
The Supreme Court ruled that Hennepin County’s actions violated the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause, which bars the government from taking private property for public use without adequately compensating the property owner.
International Prescriptive Jurisdiction and American Conflict of Laws
This Article brings the perspective of international prescriptive jurisdiction into American conflict of laws to create a framework that addresses the question, “Who ought to be making law for this matter?”
Pragmatic Family Law
In many areas, family law has managed to avoid polarization. Instead, states are converging on similar rules and policies, working toward consensus on once-divisive issues. What ties together these widespread but underappreciated patterns of convergence, depolarization, and nonpartisan pluralism? This Article argues that a deep, underlying commonality is a pragmatic method of decision- and policymaking.
Justices rule against Andy Warhol estate in copyright dispute
This decision provides a major statement in the role that copyright law plays in fostering artistic creativity, as the court upheld the claim of a famed celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, that the Andy Warhol estate infringed her copyright in a photograph of the musician Prince when it licensed an image Warhol derived from that photograph to serve as a cover on a Condé Nast issue published shortly after Prince’s death.
Principles of the Law, Government Ethics Is Approved
ALI’s membership voted to approve Principles of the Law, Government Ethics. The Principles project began in 2009, and is the Institute’s first project on this important topic.
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