Parties unfamiliar with the legal system shudder at the thought of seeing their life in its most personal context, displayed on a witness stand before a judge and a courtroom full of peering ...

Few legal terms have found their way into the popular lexicon the way “due process of law” has. When someone complains that he is being denied “due process,” the person is generally expressing a sense ...

“Don’t accept as gospel what might appear as ‘settled law’ in judicial opinions. Instead, if the announced rule seems odd, follow it upstream to its source, looking for the place where the process ...