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Innovation is vital to economic prosperity, and lawmakers consequently strive to craft patent laws that efficiently promote the discovery and commercialization of new inventions. Commentators have long recognized that legal…

Everyone agrees that American tort law expanded significantly in the late nineteenth century. But the story of that change, as usually told, is radically incomplete. One important precondition of tort…

For over four decades, the Arizona Legislature has required parties with small-dollar civil disputes to submit their disputes to compulsory arbitration before trial in Arizona’s Superior Court. Overall, compulsory arbitration…

Guaranteed money in an NFL player contract is often misrepresented when discussing the earnings of professional football players. Whenever an NFL player signs a new contract, purportedly setting a new…

While many still assume that most defendants who fail to appear for court (“FTAs”) are willfully evading the law, nonappearance occurs for a variety of reasons, and most FTAs are…

As was true of its predecessor under the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, chapter 13 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code has never worked out as well as Congress hoped. Intended to…