For many contemporary criminal law theorists, statutory law is supposedly the gold standard. Many believe that statutory legislation is more democratic than having common law crimes. Some maintain ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping wave of laws this year, passed by the Republican supermajority of Florida’s Legislature, that have been criticized as unconstitutional and discriminatory. And some ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of amendments that made significant changes to the requirements for statutory powers of attorney in the state of New York. The changes, as discussed by C ...

I often see people assuming that sex with under-18-year-olds is a crime (statutory rape); for instance, some comments on the 17-year-old gets help in lying about age to get abortion; later, she and ...

An initial wave of decisions indicates that trial courts are not hesitating to enforce the legislative scheme by cutting off non-meritorious speech-based claims and awarding fees. New Jersey’s ...

Toronto, Canada – A Canadian study examining how American children can legally marry at an earlier age than they can legally consent to sex found that child marriages violated statutory rape laws in ...