Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.