Commentaries by Harrison Thorne

Intern Protection Laws May Be Hurting Interns

Intern Protection Laws May Be Hurting Interns

Harrison Thorne

September 15, 2015 08:00:21 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne of UCLA School of Law discusses the possible implications that a recent decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit might bear on internships ... Employees are entitled to many benefits, including...

Bankruptcy Courts Are No Longer Courts of Equity

Bankruptcy Courts Are No Longer Courts of Equity

Harrison Thorne

May 1, 2015 02:46:47 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne of UCLA School of Law discusses the role of bankruptcy courts in equity... Bankruptcy law, embodied in Title 11 of the United States Code (also known as "the Bankruptcy Code"), strives to balance the rights...

Muniauction, Limelight and New Standards for Induced Infringement

Muniauction, Limelight and New Standards for Induced Infringement

Harrison Thorne

June 25, 2014 05:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne, Loyola Law School, Class of 2016, addresses newly decided precedents in patent law and the complications that they could create... It is not always clear exactly when a patent is infringed. People typically think of...

THIS DAY @ LAW

WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.