A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of ...

The results of the local government elections were a boon to government critics whose primary pre-occupation is nitpicking ...

No IPKF commander or reputed Indian reporter ever claimed in retrospect that had the IPKF stayed on, Prabhakaran and the ...

The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), a California-based animal rights group, asked the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to ...

June, marks the 120th anniversary of Dr N.M. Perera’s birth. N.M. was born in 1905, the year of the First Russian Revolution.

This is another reference to slavery, which was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment ... state gun restrictions when he wrote: “Only if a firearm regulation is ...

The congressional copy of the 13th Amendment — signed by President Abraham Lincoln, 37 senators and 111 congressmen — will be on display Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 ...

His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.

That is especially true for the authors of the 14th Amendment, who were preoccupied ... in the English legal tradition, dating to the 13th century. And it was of special significance to Americans ...

And with slavery abolished by the 13th Amendment. The reunited nation realized it needed to fix the damage done by the Dredsky case. The Supreme Court further defined citizen in the 1898 ruling of ...