Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...

Although the affinities between the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Seventh Amendment right to civil jury trial seem strong, there are crucial differences. The first concerns ...

America Tax Group, Inc., founded by Justin Torbati (B.B.A., M.P.M., J.D.), begins where effective representation must begin: ...

In a pair of cases decided by the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal, the Court reiterated the difference between procedural and substantive unconscionability when it comes to ...

Anita S. Krishnakumar is a professor of law and the associate dean for faculty scholarship at St. John’s University School of Law. Substantive canons of statutory construction — such as the rule of ...