Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to US supreme court in historic first
Federal appelate judge becomes first black woman to serve on US’s highest court
Ketanji Brown Jackson is nominated to become first black woman on US supreme court
Biden fulfills campaign promise in ‘historic’ nomination to country’s highest court
Brown Jackson emerges as frontrunner for vacant US supreme court seat
If appointed, she would be first black woman to sit on country’s most powerful bench
Biden vows to replace Breyer with black woman on US supreme court
President hails retiring judge as ‘model public servant’ and will choose successor by March
Republicans and Donald Trump: the tale of the untameable shrew
Maureen Dowd: GOP leaders attempting to bridle the ex-president are on a fool’s errand
Lawsuits a new weapon in US fight against disinformation
Multi-billion dollar libel actions force right-wing media to row back on election fraud claims
The Zoom transgression that sank one of the United States’ best-known journalists
How Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst, lost his sweetest gig
‘Due to Covid-19, I’ve not been able to come home since Christmas’
Kirsten Roberts Lyer: ‘My aunt sadly passed away. It has been very tough to be away this long’
How Donald Trump acts as a restraining influence on Mike Pompeo
US Politics: President’s materialism is in contrast to moral imperatives of his secretary of state
Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr joins Trump impeachment team
US president brings in high-powered legal defenders for Senate trial next week
How Amazon abused its precious store of staff loyalty
Using workers as a prop to promote company interests is bound to backfire
Why Elizabeth Warren should still be considered a frontrunner
US Politics: Senator may shine as flashier candidates for the Democratic nod burn out
Wall Street to loom large in Elizabeth Warren’s White House run
Combative Massachusetts Democrat the first notable candidate to confirm Trump challenge
Superstar judge emerges as an unlikely champion for liberals
America Letter: 85-year-old Ruth Baden Ginsburg has vowed to remain on the bench for another five years to the delight of her fans
US Senate panel narrowly backs Pompeo as secretary of state
Republican Rand Paul withdraws opposition after assurances over foreign policy approach
Samantha Power: ‘Trump? He’s just a hack, an actor, a performer’
The Irish born academic and former US ambassador to the UN on how she became one of the most powerful women in American foreign affairs, her thoughts on the current president and how her roots are firmly in Ireland
A defence of finance drawing on the arts
The route to instilling more of an ethical compass in finance is by putting it through a prism of art and literature, argues new book by Harvard professor
Anthony Scaramucci listed as dead by Harvard alumni directory
Former communications director is a 1989 graduate of the Ivy League law school
Who is Anthony Scaramucci and why was he fired?
‘Where I grew up and the neighbourhood I’m from, we’re front-stabbers’
Trump ‘prepared to testify’ over exchanges with Comey
US president accuses sacked FBI director of lying under oath in testimony to Congress
Trump sticks to hard-right positions with key appointments
US president-elect rewards loyalty by naming early supporters to top administration roles
Denis O’Brien cannot call evidence from US law expert, court rules
Businessman loses application in case over TDs’ statements on his banking affairs
Kaine is the liberal who meets Clinton’s needs
Profile: Virginia senator covers key gaps in Democratic presidential candidate’s ticket
Irish Women of the World: Samantha Power and more political powerhouses
Diplomacy, clear focus and long-term view help forge agreement and ambition
Conservative who tilted the balance on US supreme court
Antonin Scalia: March 11th, 1936 - February 13th, 2016
Taiwan frontrunner conciliatory towards China ahead of poll
Tsai Ing-wen expected to unseat President Ma Ying-jeou in Saturday’s election
Harvard MBAs give up on Wall Street
The tech boom in Silicon Valley is luring away entrepreneurs seeking to strike it even richer
Over 1,000 human rights activists were detained since President Xi took office
‘Chinese human rights defenders are facing the most severe crackdown since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989’
The US lawyer on the frontline of the fight for equality in criminal justice
Tackling racial inequality in the criminal justice system has seen Bryan Stevenson praised as a ‘young Mandela’
Obama may act on tax inversions without waiting for agreement from Congress
Law from 1969 could be used to tackle issue, says Harvard Law School professor
George Zimmerman charged with assault
Volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin charged with assault on his girlfriend
The sky’s the limit for legal eagles on Twitter
Social media brings legal discussion to a much wider audience
Kennedy in waiting: Joe III is ‘the real deal’
Joe Kennedy III is the teetotal young pretender who seems the clan member most likely to follow in his great-uncle’s footsteps
Reinvigorating the case method by giving students ownership
Legal education: Taking the passivity out of lectures
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