http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp Selected Op-Ed articles from the NLJ en-us Copyright 2013. ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/terms.jsp http://www.law.com/img/newswire/nlj_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT Students would save three years of tuition if they could enter law school after their freshman year. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202600580055&rss=rss_nlj 1202600580055 Law enforcement personnel initiated or cooperated in a record high number of them in 2012. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202600580133&rss=rss_nlj 1202600580133 Currently the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that pits the interests of a white, would-be adoptive couple, to whom a Latina biological mother surrendered her baby girl at birth, against those of the natural father and his Cherokee tribe. Thu, 16 May 2013 15:59:40 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202600434011&rss=rss_nlj 1202600434011 Dan Schweitzer, Supreme Court counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General, responds to Simon Lazarus' NLJ piece about the implications of Wos v. E.M.A. Wed, 15 May 2013 11:17:06 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202600228745&rss=rss_nlj 1202600228745 It has become increasingly evident that the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by questioning him without his Miranda warnings. It is disturbing that the DOJ would risk its criminal prosecution by ignoring such basic rules and even more disturbing for what this says as to its view of the Constitution. Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202599627572&rss=rss_nlj 1202599627572 Much of the discussion in the media on whether the surviving Boston bombing suspect should have been given Miranda warnings when he was arrested appears to be based on a misconception: that law enforcement officers are required to give suspects the warnings set forth in Miranda v. Arizona and that failure to do so is a violation of the law, at least if the public-safety exception doesn't apply. That is not correct. Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202599602300&rss=rss_nlj 1202599602300 Given any ambiguity, as Justice Anthony Kennedy has aptly proclaimed in his book, "the tie goes to freedom." That is what the court did in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons. Thu, 09 May 2013 20:11:20 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202599531477&rss=rss_nlj 1202599531477 Since legal education provides access to justice, power and social mobility, urgent reform is needed now. Wed, 08 May 2013 12:12:56 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202599229647&rss=rss_nlj 1202599229647 Courts should be impartial forums, where everyone can at least get a fair opportunity to voice their arguments. Sadly, in cases involving businesses, courts regularly put a thumb on the scales of justice. Wed, 01 May 2013 15:42:06 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202598342270&rss=rss_nlj 1202598342270 Tempers will surely continue to run hot over the merits of "reparative" therapy, and rightly so. But it is important not to let hard cases (or unsympathetic plaintiffs) make bad law. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:52:32 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202598182462&rss=rss_nlj 1202598182462 Although the Uniform Code of Military Justice criminalizes a servicemember's use of 'contemptuous words' against the president, some use social media to insult Obama. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202597683351&rss=rss_nlj 1202597683351 Any Supreme Court decision in this case will not unify the law. Congress needs to step in and create a unified medical device and brand/generic drug system that does not draw arbitrary distinctions. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202597683114&rss=rss_nlj 1202597683114