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Professor Joshua Kleinfeld explains the failures of American democracy and the three steps needed to revive true self-government in America.

Michael Kang discusses COVID-19’s looming impact on the upcoming presidential election, the range of election-related litigation already in courts, and whether he thinks America will know ...

Emily Kadens, professor of law and a legal historian with a particular focus on medieval and early modern history of commercial law and practice, shares her research on the origins of commercial ...

With Andrew M. Koppelman The United States has a long history of religious accommodation. But is it possible to exempt those who object to an anti-discrimination law without defeating the purpose ...

Professor David Schwartz explains how federal court system paywalls derail researchers who want to study patterns in court records. The cross-disciplinary Northwestern Open Access to Court ...

In an era of rapid technological change, the members of Northwestern Law’s Intellectual Property (IP) faculty are focused on the study of innovation and the law. Collectively, the group ...

Professor Alyson Carrel explains a new framework that helps law students and lawyers understand how law and technology can work together to create a more holistic approach to lawyering. This is ...

What IS restorative justice anyway? Professor Annie Buth explains.

Property and local government law regulate the most foundational, and vital, elements of our lives: where, and thus how, we all live. Though they are often conceived separately, both bodies of ...