The American Bar Association calls on the United States to reverse its decision not to participate in its upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council. This ...

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The ABA Center for Innovation is a place for collaborative and creative thinking about transforming the US justice system. We believe the intersection of law and technology affords the profession a ...

Rule 5.2(c)’s limitations on the ability of the press and the public to monitor immigration matters in federal court are far too extensive, undermining public access to judicial records.

You, the law student, matter. It is okay that you will not be okay from time-to-time while in law school; this mental health guide is the result of efforts from hundreds of individuals around the ...

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The American Bar Association firmly maintains that judicial independence is vital to preserving the integrity of our system of justice. Efforts to intimidate or remove judges for their lawful decision ...

Better contract drafting leads to fewer disputes. Fewer disputes means happier clients. In this fifth edition, Kenneth A. Adams has updated and expanded his valuable guide by more than 70 pages of new ...

How will the law change to accommodate the role of artificial intelligence in society and how much of that change has occurred already? When machines make their own decisions with financial impact, ...

ABA SCLAID and Moss Adams collaboratively conducted the Oregon Project, An Analysis of Public Defense Attorney Workloads. Published in January 2022, the Oregon Project includes an analysis of ...

Stare Decisis—a Latin term that means “let the decision stand” or “to stand by things decided”—is a foundational concept in the American legal system. To put it simply, stare decisis holds that courts ...

It is no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, you ...