American Enterprise Institute president Christopher DeMuth announced today that the National Legal Center for the Public Interest has been merged into AEI.

Although the past thirty years of originalist scholarship have produced remarkable gains in certain areas of law, much of the Constitution remains to be recovered.

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In the late 1990s, the lawyers at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach were the undisputed kings of securities fraud class actions. Melvyn Weiss, the dean of the securities class action bar and a co-founder of the firm, ran its New York office. Bill Lerach, frequently described as the most...

Introduction

Five years after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, America's corporations are still considering how to deal with newly empowered shareholders. In addition to specific requirements designed to ensure that corporations comport themselves to minimum standards of corporate governance, American businesses are encountering greater and more sophisticated activist shareholders. The...

Martin Lipton comments on some of the most significant issues facing boards of directors in 2008.

The strong and growing economy that comes with a free market is good for everyone. Taking power from entrepreneurs and giving it to trial lawyers and bureaucrats cheats American workers.

This past September, the National Legal Center for the Public Interest merged with AEI to become the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest.