Although legal terminology can make reading and understanding a contact challenging, the principals involved are straightforward. A contract written on a cocktail napkin is just as valid as one ...

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Most lawyers and law firms operate on billable hours when charging clients for services. When analyzed, billable hours, also known as billable time, allow clients and law firms the chance to measure ...

Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. Upon Guyana’s accession to independence, its first Chancellor of the Judiciary, the great J.O.F. Haynes counselled ...

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress, the media, and the general public have urged the intelligence, counterintelligence, and law ...

Zachary Price is a professor of law at UC Hastings Law in San Francisco. In its decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California barring repeal of the Deferred ...

With great power comes great responsibility. The now-famous line, delivered by Uncle Ben in Spider-Man, has been evoked time and again in legal tech spheres. It's perhaps never been more fitting than ...

In our interconnected world, climate change, environmental degradation and human rights are among the concerns shared by many of us, our students and wider society. These issues transcend borders and ...

Lecturer on Law and Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard University When drafting a treaty on the laws of war at ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? China has been attempting to camouflage its “one China principle” as a “general principle of law” in the international arena to strengthen the ...