Duhaime's LawMag
The world's first online legal magazine, demystified significant law and justice events around the world, published from 1996 to 2014.
Categories: Current Events, Law Makers, Politicians
We speaketh prematurely but the lovely knoll of ditching political correctness- sweeter sounding still as it rings from the home of the common law - has been heard and struck a beacon of light upon the shadow of law which naively wants to be all things to all cultures.
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Categories: Access to Justice and Legal Information, Legal History
The American Law Register first published in 1852, a fact often trumpeted by the publishers. And people read it.
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Categories: Personal Injury and Tort Law
Is there a mass tort claim emerging from a hidden but non-negligible risk for brain tumors in extensive electromagnetic radition from cell phones?
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Current Events
When and how can we exorcise the ghost of "Columbine"?
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Categories: International Law, Law Makers, Politicians
Gentleman bastard or wrongfully accused? Kenyans roll dice, elect man suspected of crimes against humanity as top law-maker.
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Categories: Environmental Law, Law Fun
The law of abandoned property is evolving, filling, emptying, filling .... Finders keepers losers weepers? Depends where you are.
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Categories: Elder Law, Wills, Estates, Probate
Capacity, once such an easy, simple concept, has exploded into an octopus of shouldnts, wouldnts, couldnts as an aging population will not be muzzled and demands to have their voice heard until the last drop of sanity.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, International Law
Still no "eureka" moment on how to deal with killers.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
Conduct unbecoming is a catch-all prohibition in the professional conduct handbooks of almost all law societies and bar associations. Because it eludes clear definition, it ever hovers over lawyers - even when they are not at the office - like a sword of Damocles.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Legal History, Legal Profession and Lawyers
To kill a judge is the worst of crimes. And yet there is judicial blood within the pages of legal history, and some of it recently spilled.
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