But sometimes these division do very much affect its better half, as with substantive law and procedural law. While substantive law sets out what the law is, such as that a person who breaches a ...

Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...

The University of Chicago Law Review is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship. Often cited in Supreme Court and other court opinions, as well as in other scholarly works, it is among the most ...

The following response in our symposium on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum comes from Trey Childress, Associate Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law and a Visiting Associate ...

In Clark’s Crystal Springs Ranch, LLC v. Gugino (In re Clark), 692 Fed. Appx. 946, 2017 BL 240043 (9th Cir. July 12, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that: (i) the remedy ...

Despite the judicial hierarchy of a state's appellate court, its power to review and correct errors made by a trial court is based on standards of review that serve to establish a deferential approach ...