The case against Eliot Spitzer was released to the media by the prosecutor's office, which was a tactic used by Spitzer himself. However, this may be an unethical practice.

In an event co-hosted by AEI and the Center for American Progress, Rick Hess and Raegan Miller will discuss their views on what particular changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will allow it to fulfill its aims without causing educators and local officials legal headaches.

Class action settlements avoid the mammoth costs and delay of individual lawsuits or traditional class action litigation.

Over the last thirty-five years, conceptions of legal fairness have become the norm in public schools as they have in other aspects of American life. But is legal fairness in schools really fair? By definition, legal fairness does not look past compliance to the effects of a policy on...

Most of Americans believe that all should start at more or less the same place with more or less the same opportunities to succeed and that government should protect the returns for hard work yet they are marginalized by a 30 percent coalition that effectively wants the government to penalize success.

In the coming weeks and months, as the debt ceiling debate rages and new budget battles arise, we will hear more and more class-warfare rhetoric about corporate jets, miserly rich people, and the need for higher taxes. Free-enterprise advocates must be ready to make a three-part case.

Among the top items left on the Senate's to-do list before the November elections is a "paycheck fairness" bill, which is predicated on the wage gap between men and women, but the bill is not as commonsensical as it might seem.

The growth of law and litigation since the 1960s is often decried for being costly and inefficient. But what about the benefits? Hasn't expanded liability also produced greater fairness and accountability and more responsible decisions? In his new book, Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law (Norton, 2009),...