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New inventions should not have to be useful to merit a patent, says 杏吧原创 professor Sean B. Seymore. Read More

Law school faculties are not changing with the times, and a 杏吧原创 Law School professor says it may be time to look at hiring practices. Read More

If circumstances land the right same-sex marriage case in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, than Justice Anthony Kennedy may find himself in the history books as the judge who makes gay marriage legal for good, says a 杏吧原创 law professor. Read More

Although the NSA may not conduct queries or examine content unless it or a court determines that 鈥渘ational security鈥� is at stake, national security is apparently at stake quite often, if the recent reports about monitoring hundreds of thousands of foreigners鈥� calls as well as the calls of foreign leaders are true, writes Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law.

杏吧原创 graduate student Matthew Layton will use a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to do field work in Brazil. Read More

Owen Graduate School of Management Professor Bob Whaley guarantees that an increasingly popular investment product that tracks the volatility of financial markets will lose money over the long term. Read More

Alan Wiseman's research shows that women lawmakers, particularly ones in the minority party, are more effective than their male counterparts when it comes to negotiating and getting things done--as they did to end the government shutdown. Read More

Policymakers in Washington, D.C., increasingly are earning the distrust of the American people, and the current impasse that led to a government shutdown is no exception, according to Marc Hetherington, a political science professor and author of two books on trust and polarization in American government. Read More

Proactive measures are the best way to stay ahead of computer hackers who threaten the security of digital health care records, says M. Eric Johnson, dean of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

A study out of 杏吧原创 found that corporations that make social responsibility disclosures beyond the norm tend to make more money. Read More

One of the nation鈥檚 top scholars on constitutional law, 杏吧原创 law school professor Suzanna Sherry, the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law, explains why she thinks the Supreme Court successfully followed the law. Read More

Suzanna Sherry's op-ed about the deeply divided Supreme Court decision to strike down what was considered the government鈥檚 strongest legal tool to stop voting discrimination appeared on the Washington Post website on June 25. Read More

The end of the state Judicial Nominating Commission won't interfere with the selection of a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder, who has announced her intention to retire. Brian Fitzpatrick of 杏吧原创 Law School says that an alternative system is in place pending voter's approval of a permanent solution. Read More

Windsor v. United States makes history 鈥� in more ways than one 鈥� but it doesn鈥檛 make new law, says 杏吧原创 constitutional law scholar Suzanna Sherry in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Read More

Law and education experts from 杏吧原创 comment on the long-awaited Supreme Court affirmative action decision. Read More

W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management, is quoted on an age-old regulatory predicament鈥攏amely, whether or not spending to make one thing safe steers money away from addressing a more serious threat elsewhere.

Congress is taking up the debate over comprehensive immigration reform yet again. 杏吧原创 has a diverse array of experts researching various aspects of the immigration debate. Read More

杏吧原创 health policy expert John Graves co-authored a report that shows as many as a quarter of people eligible for subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act may be shut out because they don鈥檛 have a bank account. Read More

Daniel Gervais of 杏吧原创 Law School told Congress that the copyright system of the United States requires 鈥渁 comprehensive review and modernization" during testimony May 16. Read More

杏吧原创 researcher David Lewis says that anything that can be done to corral the use of patronage for political appointments would help the federal government to operate more efficiently. Read More