At this event, four distinguished lawyers who have significant experience both in government and constitutional law will discuss the key constitutional issues that are essential to understand in this controversy, the precedents from similar disputes in the past, and the implications for the future if either the president’s position or the opponents' position is ultimately upheld by the courts.

This event will discuss the future of the Supreme Court.

This event will be held in Hart Auditorium at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Is another Bush v. Gore possible? What if the U.S. Supreme Court held the fate of another presidential election in its hands?

November 4, 2008; a blizzard hits Denver, Colorado; the resulting whiteout causes total city gridlock,...

The Bush administration’s efforts to achieve tort reform through regulatory agency preemption has garnered much academic and press coverage. On November 29, 2006, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Watters v. Wachovia Bank. At issue is the scope of the National Bank Act and federal...

Professor Theodore Eisenberg will discuss his new article Attorney’s Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study (coauthored with Geoffrey Miller) which argues that attorney’s fees have not been growing over the past decade, contrary to conventional wisdom. Eisenberg’s research suggests that the general assumption that attorneys receive about one-third...

"Off-label" prescribing--that is, doctors prescribing drugs for purposes other than those expressly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA--is often useful although little is known of its extent. In the last several years, nearly every major pharmaceutical company has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle allegations of...

Since the mid-1980s, Americans have gotten fatter. Numerous policy initiatives have failed to reverse the upward trend in body weights, and the Center for Disease Control labels obesity as an "epidemic" generating enormous health costs. Plaintiffs' lawyers and public health organizations are devising litigation to address this problem with the...