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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF TORT LAW

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) is an independent agency that investigates potential violations of the federal securities laws.

Two statues outside the Federal Trade Commission depict a muscle-bound man wrestling an equally muscular horse. Called Man Controlling Trade, the statuary dates back to the New Deal era when commerce (the horse) was seen as a dangerous force, and the government (the man) a powerful savior.

A groundbreaking decision released by the Fifth Circuit on May 18 signals a changing landscape for federal administrative law and the separation of powers. In Jarkesy v. Securities and...

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption...

Two statues outside the Federal Trade Commission depict a muscle-bound man wrestling an equally muscular horse.

Ben Crump has become Black America's go-to lawyer in every major police brutality case. "CIVIL," a new documentary, follows a year in his life.

On Wednesday, in an Expert Forum sponsored by Cornerstone Research, Stanford professor and former SEC Commissioner Joe Grundfest and Vice Chair and Chief Legal Officer of Millennium Management...

The Constitution’s checks and balances are not dead yet. Many federal agencies have taken to imposing fines without a jury trial. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that this violates the Seventh Amendment. The court also held that senior federal bureaucrats need to be accountable to the president. The media have reacted with apoplexy, but this ruling restores constitutional checks to an increasingly unaccountable administrative state.

It's not surprising that a year-old proceeding launched by the U.S. Copyright Office, toying with the idea of creating a copyright-focused small claims court, has gone largely unnoticed. Private meetings in Dubai about the future of the internet, and copyright proposals in Germany that could change the way search engines work have been vying for…