Finance Law

JUDY WOODRUFF: The Supreme Court’s immigration ruling wasn’t the only decision issued today. The justices found that juveniles who commit murder cannot receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. And in a 5-4 decision, the same justices who supported the Citizens United campaign finance decision opted against revisiting it. Well, Marcia Coyle [...]

The University of California, Davis, School of Law and India’s Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, Haryana, have signed a memorandum of understanding setting up collaborations through summer training programs, joint research, seminars, publications, faculty collaborations and exchanges of faculty and students. Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the U.C. Davis School of Law, and Raj [...]

(Reuters) – A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday upholding a key part of Arizona‘s crackdown on illegal immigrants may lend support to states where Republican-led legislatures have passed similar laws, insisting they had to act in a policy area in which the federal government has failed. Here are some facts about the state laws [...]

America is exceptional for many reasons, not the least of which is the way our pioneer DNA morphed into entrepreneurship.  But all DNA has to be nourished, and the food of entrepreneurship is capital. As America’s pioneers claimed Manifest Destiny they simultaneously created businesses and markets, which were funded at first by sweat, blood and [...]

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s attempt to limit campaign contributions, citing the Citizens United ruling that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate campaign spending. The 5-4 ruling was made on partisan lines, with the conservative majority voting to summarily dismiss the Montana case without oral arguments. Continue Reading At issue was whether [...]

Lahore: The LUMS board of trustees decided to establish a separate School of Law within the next three years, and its structure and premises will be developed within the given period. In a major announcement at the 24th Annual Convocation of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Rector Abdul Razak Dawood announced far-reaching changes [...]

ROME — If things go his way in the lower house this week, Prime Minister Mario Monti will arrive at the summit meeting of the European Union in Brussels on Thursday with a freshly passed package of labor laws, a token of Italy’s dependability in enacting crucial change. Yet the package has been widely criticized [...]

JPMorgan Chase Co. (JPM) (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) (GS) compete for banking and trading business from almost all of the world’s largest companies, with one notable exception: Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) (CHK), the second biggest U.S. gas producer now facing a cash-flow (CHK) shortage. For more than a decade, JPMorgan bankers have [...]

Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:09pm IST

This story appears in the School of Law’s Summer 2012 Mag­a­zine. It was written by free­lancer Tracey Palmer. Emily Rochon, L’13, likes a clean fight, but she isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty for a good cause. As a cli­mate and energy cam­paigner for Green­peace Inter­na­tional for three years before coming to North­eastern, she took on [...]