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

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29, 2008

Today, an appeals court in Texas reversed the $26 million judgment in Ernst v. Merck, which made worldwide headlines in 2005 when the first Vioxx case to go to trial returned a $253 million...

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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 30, 2008

Yesterday, the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest released an important new empirical study with implications for the...

Introduction

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.

Lessons from Thirty-two Years in Washington

This will be the last installment for this reporter after roughly twenty years of preparing literally hundreds of these newsletters--and eighteen years with the U.S. Senate.

It is always a balancing act trying to be topical when the final draft is submitted over a month before...