California Corporate & Securities Law

Justice Ignazio ("Nace") John Ruvolo once observed that the "Illegality of contracts constitutes a vast, confusing and rather mysterious area of the law."  McIntosh v. Mills, 121 Cal. App. 4th 333, 344 (2004). One confusing or mysterious question is...

I have often remarked on the debt that the Anglo-American legal lexicon owes to French and Latin.  Greek has made a much smaller contribution.  In reading Professor Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians...